Markus Miessen

photo: Blaise Adilon		photo: Blaise Adilon

«The violence of participation», 2007
(«La violence de la participation»)
Eléments d’architecture, textes, dessins.
Courtesy Markus Miessen & Ralf Pflugfelder.

Avec le soutien de l'IFA

MARKUS MIESSEN
born 1978 in Bonn, Germany lives and works in London
Architect, researcher, teacher and essayist, Markus Miessen is the author of “Spaces of Uncertainty” (with Kenny Cupers, 2002) and “Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice” (with Shumon Basar). In 2002 he founded Studio Miessen, an experimental platform for analysis of the strategic and cultural mechanisms behind the new spaces generated by contemporary urbanism. At the Biennial he is presenting a structure representing democratic power.