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Felix Burrichter (born 1978, Germany) is an architect, publisher, curator, creative director, and writer.[1][2][3] Burrichter is the founder Pin-Up magazine, a biannual architecture and design publication where he currently serves as the magazine's creative director.[4][5][6] Burrichter has curated internationally at institutions including the Haus der Kunst, Swiss Institute, and Museum of Arts and Design and has published architecture, design, and artist monographs for Rizzoli and Powerhouse.[7] In 2011, he was awarded the Art Director's Club America Gold Medal for Editorial Design.[8] Burrichter lives and works in New York, New York.[9][10]

Early life and education

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Burrichter was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany and attended part of high school in Southern, California.[11] He studied architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture as well as École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in Paris, France and moved to New York City to obtain a master's degree at Columbia University.

Work

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Pin-Up magazine

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In 2006, Burrichter launched Pin-Up magazine after working at a corporate New York architecture firm drawing Photoshop illustrations and making mood boards.[12] The bi-annual publication, known as the "Magazine for Architectural Entertainment", covers a range of highbrow and lowbrow topics in fashion, art, politics, architecture, and design.[13] Burrichter credits his time as an intern at Butt magazine in Amsterdam under Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers (of Fantastic Man magazine) for inspiration to forge a new magazine that loosened up the idea of the architect as genius.[14] The magazine has run features and interviews on a number of prominent architects such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Maria Pergay, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Martino Gamper, and Ettore Sottsass.[15]

Curatorial practice

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Burrichter curated an exhibition, titled Paper Weight – Genre-Defining Magazines 2000 to Now, at the Haus der Kunst in 2013 that surveyed the rise of 15 independent publications having launched since the dawn of the 21st century.[16][17] The exhibition included a range of magazine's covering architecture, design, sex and fashion such as Apartamento, 032c, The Gentlewoman, Toilet Paper, Girls Like Us, CANDY, and White Zinfandel.[18]

In 2015, Burrichter asked 10 international designers to populate a Stockholm park with benches of their imagination in a 2015 public art project titled Superbenches.[19] The park included original works by Philippe Malouin, Naihan Li, Max Lamb, Märta Hägglund and Sanna Gripner, and Luca Cipelletti, amongst several others.[20] Later that year, Burrichter curated Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home. The exhibition, located at the Swiss Institute, used architect and designer Le Corbusier as guide for exploring 21st-century domesticity.[21][22]

Michael Bullock and Burrichter curated a day-long eco-conference in 2016 called SEEDING at the Museum of Arts and Design.[23]

In 2019, Burrichter collaborated with Adam Charlap Hyman of interior design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero on an exhibit Blow-Up.[24] The exhibition at Friedman Benda gallery in Chelsea was dubbed a "Freudian trip through a 1:1 dollhouse", and featured design works by Gaetano Pesce, Studio España, Katie Stout, Misha Kahn, Telfar Clemens, and more.[25]

Editorial

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Burrichter has been a contributing writer to T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Fantastic Man, W, and Wired Italia[26]

From 2008 to 2010, he served as Butt magazine's editor.[27]

Burrichter edited Studio Work, a 2012 monograph of work by photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya. The book featured portraits, snapshots, and various archival ephemera inside the artist's studio as well as text by writer Wayne Konstenbaum.[28]

Pin-Up Interviews was published in 2013 and covers over 50 conversations and interviews from previous Pin-Up issues.[29] The 448-page work doesn't include any pictures and subjects include architects Odile Decq and Charles Renfro, fashion designers Rick Owens and Hedi Slimane, and artists Daniel Arsham and Robert Wilson.[30]

In 2017, Burrichter wrote and edited a monograph of Italian design furniture titled Cassina: This Will Be the Place: Thoughts and Photographs About the Future of Interiors.[31] The book includes five interviews with architecture and design scholars and practitioners including curator and historian Beatriz Colomina and Finnish architect Martti Kalliala as well as five conceptual ideas turned into conceptual interiors, each with pieces from Cassina's catalog.[32]

In 2021, after 15 years as the publication's editor, Burrichter brought on furniture designer and writer Emmanuel Olunkwa to serve as the new editor.[33]

A limited-edition art book, Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey, was published by PIN-UP and Mattel in late 2022. The monograph honored the dreamhouse's 60-year milestone.[34]

References

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  1. ^ "Felix Burrichter on his uncanny new exhibit and very canny magazine, Pin-Up". businessofhome.com. February 6, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  2. ^ "Felix Burrichter". Purple (in French). Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  3. ^ "Felix Burrichter". BeOpenFuture. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  4. ^ Santiago, Sean (May 4, 2021). "At Milan's Bar Basso Anything Can Happen ... and Usually Does". Elle Decor. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  5. ^ Anello, Felix Burrichter, Chloe (August 27, 2021). "What Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Can't Live Without". The Strategist. Retrieved September 15, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Hawgood, Alex (September 18, 2021). "A Multifaceted Designer Gets a New Platform". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
  7. ^ "To Live in a Schindler House, by Pin-Up Editor Felix Burrichter". Sight Unseen. August 13, 2010. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
  8. ^ "Felix Burrichter". BeOpenFuture. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  9. ^ "Hughes, Robert Studley Forrest, (28 July 1938–7 Aug. 2012), Senior Writer (Art Critic), Time Magazine, New York, 1970", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, December 1, 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u21124, retrieved September 20, 2021
  10. ^ "Felix Burrichter". Everybody.world. Retrieved September 20, 2021.
  11. ^ "At home with Felix Burrichter". Gayletter. October 1, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  12. ^ "How Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Feeds His Insatiable Curiosity". The Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future. December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  13. ^ "Felix Burrichter's Pin-Up Is The Playboy Of Architecture Magazines". Architizer Journal. January 24, 2013. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  14. ^ Anello, Felix Burrichter, Chloe (August 27, 2021). "What Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Can't Live Without". The Strategist. Retrieved September 20, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "Kips Bay Decorator Show House Shares Renderings, IKEA Debuts a New Collaboration, and More News". Architectural Digest. September 3, 2021. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  16. ^ "Graphic Design: Munich show celebrates this milennium's [sic] indie magazine stars". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  17. ^ "Paper Weight — Genre-defining Magazines 2000 to Now". Abitare. October 1, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  18. ^ "Paper Weight Genre-defining Magazines 2000 to Now, Munich". Aesthetica. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  19. ^ "Max Lamb, Scholten & Baijings and Philippe Malouin create 'Superbenches' for suburban Stockholm park". Dezeen. May 5, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  20. ^ Ro, Lauren (June 15, 2017). "10 designers try their hand at public furniture for a Stockholm suburb". Curbed. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  21. ^ "Swiss Institute Launches the 2nd Annual Architecture & Design Series, Curated by Felix Burrichter". www.artbook.com. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  22. ^ "Swiss Institute Annual Architecture and Design Series: Second Edition, Pavillion de L'Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home, Curated by Felix Burrichter". DZEK Ltd. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  23. ^ "MAD and Pin–Up Magazine Present 'SEEDING,' a Day-Long Eco-Conference Exploring the Cross-Pollination of Ecology and Economy". madmuseum.org. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  24. ^ "Felix Burrichter on his uncanny new exhibit and very canny magazine, Pin-Up". businessofhome.com. February 6, 2019. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  25. ^ "Where Walls Float and Hearts Are Garbage: Felix Burrichter's BLOW UP". 032c. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  26. ^ "Felix Burrichter". BeOpenFuture. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  27. ^ "How Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Feeds His Insatiable Curiosity". The Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future. December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  28. ^ "Paul Mpagi Sepuya - Studio Work Zine". Printed Matter. Retrieved September 15, 2021.
  29. ^ "Pin-Up Interviews Features Conversations with Zaha Hadid, Peter Marino, and More". Architectural Digest. October 1, 2013. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  30. ^ "Pin-Up Interviews". Designers & Books. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  31. ^ Burrichter, Author Felix; Cassina. "Book". Rizzoli New York. Retrieved September 15, 2021. {{cite web}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  32. ^ jill (December 19, 2017). "This 90-Year-Old Company's New Book is Anything But Old-Fashioned". Sight Unseen. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
  33. ^ "How Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Feeds His Insatiable Curiosity". The Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future. December 6, 2021. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
  34. ^ Lasky, Julie (December 14, 2022). "A Six-Decade Tour of Barbie's Dreamhouses". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 20, 2022.
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