Autor/-in: Wolfgang Meisenheimer

Wolfgang Meisenheimer, born in 1933, was professor for the fundamentals of design and drafting at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf from 1976 to 1998 and visiting professor at the TU Vienna from 1993 to 1998. After philosophical research and studying architecture at the RWTH Aachen, he completed his doctorate with Hans Schwippert and Wolfgang Braunfels on the subject of space in architecture. From 1957 onwards he realised public and private buildings. Between 1984 and 1994 he was co-editor of DAIDALOS. This period also saw the development of his body philosophy of a phenomenological nature. In addition to architecture and philosophical interpretation, the themes of painting, sculpture, dance and body movement are among the focal points of his creativity.