Finn Geipel (born 23 November 1958 in Stuttgart) is a German

Architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and

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. He is co-founder of the architecture and urban planning office LIN.Joseph Hanimann: ''Finn Geipel'

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Life

Geipel studied architecture from 1981 to 1987 at the University of Stuttgart. In 1983, together with Bernd Hoge and Jochen Hunger, he founded Labfac, Laboratory for Architecture, a network of architects and artists. In 1987, collaboration with Nicolas Michelin began a new chapter of Labfac in Paris. In 2001, Finn Geipel and Giulia Andi founded the architecture and urban planning office LIN. Based in Berlin and Paris, the office works on a wide range of projects and research assignments throughout Europe. Recent projects include the renovation of Saint-Nazaire submarine bunker, the Cité du Design in St. Etienne and Grand Paris Métropole Douce. Finn Geipel is a full-time professor of architecture and building science in the architecture department at

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, since 2000. He is the advisor of the Laboratory for Integrative Architecture (LIA), a research branch of LIN at Berlin Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at

École Spéciale d'Architecture The École spéciale d'architecture (ÉSA; formerly École centrale d'architecture) is a private school for architecture at 254, boulevard Raspail in Paris, France. The school was founded in 1865 by engineer Emile Trélat as reaction against the ...

(ESA) Paris, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura (ESARQ) Barcelona,

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New York and

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(MIT) Boston-Cambridge. Since 2012, Finn Geipel has been a member of the Cluster of Excellence at

Humboldt University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

. Finn Geipel is a member of the AIGP-Atelier International du Grand Paris, the scientific advisory board of the

Grand Paris The Métropole du Grand Paris (; "Metropolis of Greater Paris"),There is no official or widely-used English translation yet. also known as Grand Paris or Greater Paris, is a ''métropole'' covering the City of Paris and its nearest surrounding su ...

Métropole Douce.

Work

* Flexible Roof of Arena, Nîmes, France (1989) * École Nationale d’Arts Décoratifs, Limoges, France (1990–1994) * Théâtre de Cornouaille, Quimper, France (1991–1998) * Exhibitionspace Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, France (2003) * Alvéole 14, Transformation Submarine Bunker, St. Nazaire, France (2003–2007) * Syn chron, Installation Carsten Nicolai,

Neue Nationalgalerie The Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery) at the Kulturforum is a museum for modern art in Berlin, with its main focus on the early 20th century. It is part of the National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums. The museum building and its s ...

, Berlin, Germany (2005) * Cité du Design, St. Etienne, France (2004–2009) * Grand Paris Métropole Douce, Paris, France (2008–2009) * Atelier Building Pajol, Paris, France (2008–2012) * Bagneux–Lucie Aubrac Paris Métro station, Paris, France, 2022

Awards

* 2010: Chevalier de la Légion d‘Honneur * 2006: Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

Publications

* Jac Fol: ''Labfac: Finn Geipel, Nicolas Michelin Laboratory for Architecture'' Centre Georges Pompidou, 1998 Paris, * Wilhelm Klauser, Catherine Métais-Bürend, Isabelle Taudière: ''LABFAC'' In: ''L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui'' n°327 April 2000, Paris * Finn Geipel, Giulia Andi: ''Cité du Design – Saint-Étienne'' Editions Jean-Michel Place, 2006 Paris, * Finn Geipel, Giulia Andi, équipe LIN: ''Grand Paris métropole douce : Hypothèses sur le paysage post-Kyoto'' Ed. Nouvelles éditions Jean-Michel Place, 2009 Paris,

Links

Official Website of LIN

References

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