Addressed - by J Mayer H (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

A richly illustrated exploration of the work of renowned German architects J. Mayer H.

Addressed presents the ongoing art, architecture, and research of J. Mayer H., an international award-winning architectural practice founded by Jürgen Mayer H. in 1996 and joined by partners Andre Santer and Hans Schneider in 2014. This comprehensive volume documents and explores the multifaceted nature of the Berlin-based firm's designs, including recently completed projects, ranging from residential and infrastructure works to memorials and urban furniture. With an emphasis on technology--from the computer to construction--and its relationship to nature and the human body, J. Mayer H. designs in a pattern language that challenges conventional methods of scale and scope in architectural practice and presents an imaginative vision of its capacity to create novel spaces.

Notable projects examined in the book include the border crossing in Sarpi, Georgia; a mixed-use development along the Spree River in Berlin; the RKM 740 Tower and the FOM University building in Düsseldorf; the IGZ Headquarters in Falkenberg, Germany; and the recent addition of an immersive lighting installation in the firm's world-renowned Metropol Parasol in Seville, Spain.

Throughout the book are images of Jürgen Mayer H.'s hand-cut collages and personal snapshots that double as field research and inform the graphic sensibility of the built and proposed projects. The book features an introduction by architect Monica Ponce de Leon and essays by contemporary design curators, critics, and scholars, highlighting J. Mayer H.'s impact on architecture and design.

Distributed for the Princeton University School of Architecture

About the Author

Jürgen Mayer H. founded J. Mayer H. in 1996 in Berlin after studying architecture at the University of Stuttgart, The Cooper Union, and Princeton University. In 2014, Andre Santer and Hans Schneider joined as partners in the firm. The firm's work has been published and exhibited worldwide and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the Vitra Design Museum, among others. Monica Ponce de Leon is the George Dutton '27 Professor in Architecture at the School of Architecture at Princeton University and founding principal of MPdL Studio. She is the editor of Authorship, Lina Bo Bardi, and Norma Merrick Sklarek (all Princeton). Kimberly Bradley is an art critic, culture writer, editor, educator, and moderator. Her work has been published in The New York Times, Architectural Digest, Aperture, Metropolis, and Monocle. Galo Canizares is an artist, designer, writer, and educator. He is assistant professor of architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design, where he directs the Critical Software Lab. Carson Chan is an architecture writer, curator, and educator. He is a founding editor of Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment and his writing appears in many books and magazines, including Kaleidoscope and 032c. He is pursuing a PhD in architecture at Princeton University. Whitney Mallett is an author, critic, and founding editor of The Whitney Review of New Writing. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Paris Review, Interview, and other publications. Whitney Moon is associate professor of architecture at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where she teaches architectural history, theory, and criticism, as well as design studios. Fabian Schöneich is the founder and director of the Center for Contemporary Arts, Berlin.