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Markus Miessen
(b.1978) is an architect, researcher, critic, and writer teaching at the Architectural Association, London. He is the editor of Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice (MIT Press/Revolver 2006, with Basar), author of Spaces of Uncertainty (Müller+Busmann, 2002, with Cupers) and currently acts as a spatial consultant to the European Kunsthalle, Cologne. Markus Miessen frequently contributes to international journals such as Contemporary, Domus, Tank and Bidoun and is editor for international projects at Build, a German architecture and urbanism periodical. He studied at Glasgow School of Art, graduated from The Architectural Association, did post-graduate research at The London Consortium and is currently a Doctoral candidate investigating conflict and non-consensus based forms of participation as a form of alternative spatial practice at the newly set up Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
Eurozine Articles
The violence of participation
Spatial practices beyond models of consensus
An architectural response to the need to find a form of co-existence that enables conflict to work as a productive confrontation. Markus Miessen on the necessity to break with the "consensus machine" [more]
Made in Washington
Spatial practices as a blueprint for human rights violations
Will the US Supreme Court's ruling that the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay violate both US military law and the Geneva Conventions prevent governments from creating a legal "meta-level" where spatial and physical humiliation becomes everyday practice? [more]
The fall of Bilbao
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao marked the end of the twentieth-century ideal of the architect as master; new practitioners have rediscovered a localism based on the belief that certain problems need tailor-made solutions rather than philosophical meta-agendas. [more]