Uwe R. Brückner is the founder and creative director of Atelier Brückner (established in 1997, Stuttgart, Germany) that conceives and designs narrative architecture and spaces for brands, exhibitions, trade fairs, and museums. Internationally renowned references of Atelier Brückner include the BMW Museum in Munich as lead architect and the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. Currently, Atelier Brückner is developing the Beirut City History Museum with Renzo Piano. Together with David Chipperfield Architects, they work on the new Nobel Center in Stockholm which will be opened in 2019.
With more than 300 lectures, workshops and jury memberships in over 20 countries, Uwe R. Brückner is renowned as an internationally successful exhibition designer and sought-after expert for museum architecture, scenography and exhibition design. Following his design philosophy “form follows content”, he focuses on the individual, content-generated design of spatial staging’s and stands for a holistic, integrative, multidisciplinary, syn-aesthetic and content consistent design approach.
Uwe R. Brückner teaches scenography and exhibition design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Basel and as a guest professor at Tongji University, Shanghai. Lately, he has given lectures at the Royal Academy for Architecture and Design in Copenhagen, the American University in Beirut and the Beijing Design Week.
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