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Group of experts contributes new specialized information
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06.05.1999
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The project management responsible for the creation of a Paul Klee Centre in Bern is drawing upon the services of experts in architecture, landscape design, building and cultural management to perform an external audit. They are Dieter Bogner, a Cultural Management Consultant (Vienna), Pierre Feddersen, a Planner (Zurich), the Architects Mike Guyer (Zurich) and Katharina Steib (Basel) and the Landscape Architect, Klaus Holzhausen (Lausanne).
The Gesamtprojektausschuss Klee of the Paul Klee Centre and the Board of the Maurice E. and Martha Müller Foundation (MMMF) want the planning and implementation of the Paul Klee Centre to be followed by external experts. These experts will supplement the specialist knowledge currently available to the project management from the administration (in particular the Building Departments of the City and Canton and the Town Planning Office) and the Art Museum. They will also assess the project work from an external standpoint. The expert group will be flexibly guided by the specific needs of the project. Its composition will therefore change and individual orders will be given in the light of the prevailing situation. Because the main emphasis will be on architecture, landscape design, building and culture management for the time being, the first experts consulted, who are presented briefly below, represent the relevant areas. They are
Dr. Dieter Bogner (A): Dieter Bogner is proprietor of the Bogner + Lord Company, Cultural Consulting, Vienna, a firm which has specialized in museological planning, cultural concepts and strategic development plans. Dieter Bogner also directs the Institute for Cultural Science in Vienna which provides training and further training courses for museum and exhibition curators and the Kunstraum Buchberg, a collection of constructive and conceptual art. In addition, at the Technical University of Vienna and at the Higher Institute of Applied Art, he teaches, as a guest professor or reader, students of management in the exhibition and museum sector.
Pierre Feddersen (CH): Pierre Feddersen is a town and land use planner and as such proprietor of the Feddersen&Klostermann Practice in urban construction, architecture and landscape based in Zurich. As a Senior Designer and Project Manager, Pierre Feddersen worked for the Atelier 5 planning company in Bern and Planpartner AG in Zurich. He taught as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Town Planning at Graz Technical University and at the Geneva University Institute of Architecture and was also as a Member of the Teaching Staff of Rapperswil University (Land Use Planning Department). Pierre Feddersen has prepared town planning and landscape projects for several Swiss cities, for the Eastern part of Lyon and in Land Brandenburg in Germany. He has also been a Member of the Jury for several national town planning and landscape design competitions.
Mike Guyer (CH): Mike Guyer worked in the OMA Architectural Office of Rem Koolhaas, Rotterdam, and later as an assistant to Hans Kollhoff at the ETH in Zurich before setting up, with the architect Annette Gigon, an architectural practice in Zurich in 1989. The principal projects handled by the Gigon and Guyer partnership include the Kirchner Museum in Davos, the Museum Liner in Appenzell opened last September and the extension of the Reinhart collection, Römerholz, in Winterthur last year. Gigon and Guyer won first prizes in competitions for the Davos Sport Centre and the Park Hotel Hyatt in Zurich.
Klaus Holzhausen (CH): the Landscape Architect Klaus Holzhausen is Head of the Planning Department and Assistant to the Gardening Office of Lausanne City, where he specializes in garden monument care. In 1997, Klaus Holzhausen was responsible at the first municipal gardens festival Lausanne Jardins 97 for the concept and organization of the event which guided visitors through 34 urban gardens.
Katharina Steib (CH): Katharina Steib is co-owner of the Wilfreid and Katharina Steib Architectural Practice. She was a Guest Teacher at ETH Zurich and Professor at Berlin Technical University. For over 40 years, the Steib Architectural and Planning Office has concentrated on public buildings and residential estates which are the outcome of architectural competitions. Projects completed include the Museum of Contemporary Art in Basel, the extension of the Historical Museum of Baden City, the Haus auf der Burg, a Research Institute for 20th Century Music in Basel (Paul Sacher Foundation), the Burghof Theater/Concert Hall in the city of Lörrach (D) and a studio building for the artist Georg Baselitz in the Park of Derneburg Castle, Hildesheim (D). The extension of the old Municipal Gallery in Stuttgart is currently in preparation.
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