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Markus Miessen (1978) MRes AADipl(Hons) B.Arch

An architect, researcher and writer, Markus Miessen frequently contributes to specialist international journals. As editorial consultant, he contributes to Volume and Bidoun. He is the editor of international projects for Build magazine, author of Spaces of Uncertainty (w. Cupers, Müller+Busmann, 2002), the editor of Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice (MIT Press/Revolver, 2006, w. Basar), a Unit Master at the Architectural Association, London, and currently acts as a spatial advisor (w. Hirsch, Misselwitz, and Görlich) to the European Kunsthalle, Cologne. In 2002, he set up Studio Miessen, a platform for spatial strategy and cultural analysis. He is currently working on a research-project for/with the Serpentine Gallery (London), investigating alternative strategies for social housing and habitat for the elderly. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, he is currently setting up a post-graduate research class (w. Cupers) that will deal with the issue of US elderly migration in relation to issues of uncertainty, historic architectural failures and their spatial and political consequences. In 2007, he will launch The Capital, a new London-based quarterly journal on spatial practices, co-published and edited with Kieran Long. His work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at Urban Drift and Aedes, Berlin, and the Rotterdam Biennale. He has lectured widely, including at the Istanbul Biennale, Columbia University New York, Stuttgart University, and the Camp for Oppositional Architecture, Utrecht. He graduated from the Architectural Association with Honours, received an M.Res degree from the London Consortium, and is currently a Doctoral candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, investigating conflict- and non-consensus-based forms of participation as a form of alternative spatial practice.