Prof.
Dr. Markus Breitschmid
Markus Breitschmid is an architect and an architectural historian.
He has studied architecture in Switzerland, the United States and Germany. He
is a registered architect (Level E.T.H., No. 1/15593) and a member of the Swiss
Institute of Architects and Engineers (No. 135605). He received his doctorate
at the Technische Universität Berlin.
Breitschmid joined Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University in
2004. Previously, he was the “2003 Visiting Historian for Architecture and Urbanism”
at Cornell University. He held a tenure-track assistant professor of architecture
at the University of North Carolina since 2000. Breitschmid has also held teaching
positions at The Catholic University of America, the Washington-Alexandria Architecture
Consortium, and the University of Louisiana.
Breitschmid was a visiting scholar, a visiting critic and visiting lecturer
at several European and American universities.
Breitschmid’s scholarship focuses on the aesthetic mentality of modernism, in
particular its promulgations in philosophical aesthetics, architecture, and
other forms of art. His lectures and publications attempt to elucidate theoretical
knowledge on the nature and transformation of architectural space, form, style,
and ornament.
His book publications include:
- Die Bedeutung der Idee in der Architektur von Valerio Olgiati (2008), ISBN 978-3-7212-0676-0,
- Three Architects in Switzerland – Beat Consoni – Morger & Degelo – Valerio Olgiati (2007),
- Valerio Olgiati – Conversation with Students (2007),
- Julius Meier-Graefe. A Modern Milieu (2007),
- Nietzsche’s Denkraum (2006),
- Can architectural art-from be designed out of construction? (2004),
- Der bauende Geist. Friedrich
Nietzsche und die Architektur (2001).
Publications in "Wolkenkuckucksheim – Cloud-Cuckoo-Land – Vozdushnyi zamok":
- Between
Object and Culture (issue 2/07)
breitschmid[at]vt.edu