Prof. Dr.-Ing. h.c. HG Merz of hg merz architekten museumsgestalter, Stuttgart spoke about “talking things“ on 21 March 2019

Date: Thursday, 21 March 2019, 7:00 pm

Location: Campus Rainvilleterrasse, ground floor, Rainvilleterrasse 4, 22765 Hamburg

Founder of hg merz architekten museumsgestalter and merz merz gmbh & co. kg. 1993-2007 professor for Exhibition Design and Visual Communication at Pforzheim, 2008-2013 professor for Conceptual and Experimental Design at TU Darmstadt. 2013-2017 chairperson of the University Council of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. 2014 awarded honorary doctorate of the TU Darmstadt. Member of the Akademie der Künste since 2018. His office is specialized in exhibition and museum design, visual communication and media planning and the restauration and repair of historically significant buildings, e.g. the renovation and conversion of the Old National Gallery Berlin, the conversion of the State Opera in Berlin, which won the German Design Award 2019, and the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Kloster Lorsch, which won the "Domus Restoration and Preservation" International Prize.