Felix Burrichter (born 1978, Germany) is an architect, publisher, curator, creative director, and writer. Burrichter is the founder '' Pin-Up'' magazine, a biannual architecture and design publication where he currently serves as the magazine's creative director. Burrichter has curated internationally at institutions including the

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, and Museum of Arts and Design and has published architecture, design, and artist monographs for

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and Powerhouse. In 2011, he was awarded the Art Director's Club America Gold Medal for Editorial Design. Burrichter lives and works in

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Early life and education

Burrichter was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany and attended part of high school in Southern, California. He studied architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture as well as

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in Paris, France and moved to New York City to obtain a master's degree at Columbia University.

Work

''Pin-Up'' magazine

In 2006, Burrichter launched '' Pin-Up'' magazine after working at a corporate New York architecture firm drawing Photoshop illustrations and making mood boards. The bi-annual publication, known as the "Magazine for Architectural Entertainment", covers a range of highbrow and lowbrow topics in fashion, art, politics, architecture, and design. Burrichter credits his time as an intern at ''

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'' magazine in Amsterdam under Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers (of '' Fantastic Man'' magazine) for inspiration to forge a new magazine that loosened up the idea of the architect as genius. The magazine has run features and interviews on a number of prominent architects such as

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, Zaha Hadid, Maria Pergay,

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, Martino Gamper, and Ettore Sottsass.

Curatorial practice

Burrichter curated an exhibition, titled ''Paper Weight – Genre-Defining Magazines 2000 to Now'', at the

in 2013 that surveyed the rise of 15 independent publications having launched since the dawn of the 21st century. The exhibition included a range of magazine's covering architecture, design, sex and fashion such as ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Gentlewoman'', '' Toilet Paper'', ''Girls Like Us'', ''CANDY'', and ''White Zinfandel''. In 2015, Burrichter asked 10 international designers to populate a

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park with benches of their imagination in a 2015 public art project titled ''Superbenches''. The park included original works by Philippe Malouin, Naihan Li,

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, Märta Hägglund and Sanna Gripner, and Luca Cipelletti, amongst several others. Later that year, Burrichter curated ''Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home''. The exhibition, located at the

, used architect and designer

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as guide for exploring 21st-century domesticity. Michael Bullock and Burrichter curated a day-long eco-conference in 2016 called ''SEEDING'' at the Museum of Arts and Design. In 2019, Burrichter collaborated with

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of interior design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero on an exhibit ''Blow-Up''. The exhibition at Friedman Benda gallery in Chelsea was dubbed a "Freudian trip through a 1:1 dollhouse", and featured design works by

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, Studio España, Katie Stout, Misha Kahn, Telfar Clemens, and more.

Editorial

Burrichter has been a contributing writer to '' T: The New York Times Style Magazine'', '' Fantastic Man'', '' W'', and ''

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'' From 2008 to 2010, he served as Butt magazine's editor. Burrichter edited ''Studio Work'', a 2012 monograph of work by photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya. The book featured portraits, snapshots, and various archival ephemera inside the artist's studio as well as text by writer Wayne Konstenbaum. ''Pin-Up Interviews'' was published in 2013 and covers over 50 conversations and interviews from previous ''Pin-Up'' issues. The 448-page work doesn't include any pictures and subjects include architects Odile Decq and

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, fashion designers Rick Owens and Hedi Slimane, and artists Daniel Arsham and Robert Wilson. In 2017, Burrichter wrote and edited a monograph of Italian design furniture titled ''Cassina: This Will Be the Place: Thoughts and Photographs About the Future of Interiors''. The book includes five interviews with architecture and design scholars and practitioners including curator and historian Beatriz Colomina and Finnish architect Martti Kalliala as well as five conceptual ideas turned into conceptual interiors, each with pieces from Cassina's catalog. In 2021, after 15 years as the publication's editor, Burrichter brought on furniture designer and writer

Emmanuel Olunkwa Emmanuel Olunkwa (born 1994, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist, writer, designer, editor, and filmmaker. Olunkwa currently serves as the editor of Pin-Up Magazine. In 2020, Olunkwa co-founded November Magazine, E&Ko., and served as an editor of The Br ...

to serve as the new editor. A limited-edition art book, ''Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey'', was published by PIN-UP and Mattel in late 2022. The monograph honored the dreamhouse's 60-year milestone.

References

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