THE REPAIR ATELIER
ART and DESIGN in REUSE

About

Markus Berger is Associate Professor in the Department of Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design. He is a registered architect (SBA) in the Netherlands and principal of the Providence based art|design studio InsideOut Design. He co-founded and co-edits Int|AR, the Journal on Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, that encompasses issues of preservation, conservation, alteration and interventions. His work, research, writing and teaching is a critique on modern architecture and focuses on forms of change such as art and design modifications and interventions in the built environment. His recent publications include the essays: “Change, Preservation and Adaptive Reuse”, (past. present. future, Rhode Island School of Design, 2011); “(In)convertability and Memory” (Int/AR -Interventions and Adaptive Reuse V04, 2012); “Constructing Change; Developing a theory for Adaptive Reuse”, (Common Ground Publishing, 2012); “Left over spaces: Rediscovering Qualities for Interior Architecture” ([In]arch Proceedings, Universitas Indonesia, 2014) and the forthcoming article, “Death of the Architect: Appropriation and Interior Architecture” (Interior Architecture Theory Reader, Routledgehostbuilding. The entire site and building, through the redesign and new programs will become a new desitination in this neighborhood.

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My current work engages obsolete and discarded objects and materials and (re) interprets them to find new meaning and expression. The creative process includes the gleaning of past things made, reading and re-reading its stories, technique, materials and past values. Deconstructing, in order to further reveal the past and construction, classification and analysis of all the individual members and the Re-construction, appropriation and re-interpretation are part of each individual piece of work.

The act of de-construction, the opposite of the original making and assemblage is the tipping point of my transformative work that engages the viewer from one status to another. While in the material word the object remains essentially the same, the de-functioning, de-constructing and appropriating creates another word of being.

Nelson Goodman stated in Ways of Wordmaking that “Worldmaking as we know it always starts from worlds already on hand; the making is a remaking.[1] Nothing exists for a first time, nothing is new, all making is remaking, appropriating, transforming, therefore changing.

 

 

Info


Providence RI 02906

mberger@risd.edu

All images are from the author 

ARTICLES & BOOK chapters

2018       Manual / Issue 11; Repair; Remaking: Nostalgia and the End and Beginning of Existence; Museum of Art, RISD

2017         Death of the Architect: Appropriation and Interior Architecture; INTERIORITIES, Interior Reader, edited by Gregory Marinic; Routledge  

2015        Objective Assessment and Thematic Categorization of Patient-audible Information in an Emergency Department; in collaboration with: Xiao C. Zhang, Leo Kobayashi, Pranav M. Reddy, Darin B. Chheng, Sara A. Gorham, Shivany Pathania, Sarah P. Stern, Elio Icaza Milson, Gregory D. Jay, Jay M. Baruch, ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE; 2015, Vol. 22, No. 10

2012         Constructing Change; Developing a theory for Adaptive Reuse, The international Journal of the Constructed Environment, Volume 2, Issue 1, Common Ground Publishing

2012         past. present. future., CHANGE, PRESERVATION. and ADAPTIVE REUSE

2011         (In)convertability and Memory, Int/AR -Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, Volume 02

2009         Pixel Hotel- City as Hotel,  Int/AR -Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, Volume  01, 

2009         FP3 a conversation with David Hacin and Scott Thomson on urban revitalization in Boston, Int/AR -Interventions and Adaptive Reuse, Volume 01, with Heinrich Hermann, 

2007         An Integrated Approach to Passive Solar Design, Northeast Sun; NESEA

professional memberships:

2000 - current SBA Netherlands  registered architect


2018 INTERIORITY (journal); Editorial Board Member The journal presents the discourses on interiority from multiple perspectives in various design-related disciplines. Department of Architecture Universitas Indonesia 

2018 SISU-LINE; Editorial Board Member; Interior architecture research journal by The Estonian Association of Interior Architects; SISU–LINE is a publication uniting spatial practitioners and theoreticians to create practice- and research-based connections between the space related disciplines.

2012         Associate Editor, The international Journal of the Constructed Environment, Common Ground Publishing

lectures, symposia and conferences

2018        ‘An Interior Approach to Education and Adaptive Reuse’, International Conference on Contemporary Positions in Interior Design Theory. BAU International, Berlin, Germany,Plevoets, B., Berger, M., Stone, S.,

2018        On the Ends of Architecture; Design Studies colloquium, GSD, Harvard

2018        [in]ARCH, International Conference, University Indonisia

2018        Hacking Heritage, Steering committee

2017        3D Digital Summit ,Constructing Change, (co-presenter), New Orleans 

2016        Cultural & Historic Preservation Conference at Salve Regina University 

2017        Hacking Heritage; Steering committee and presenter

2016        Lecture and workshop, Universidad Politecnica, PR

2016        Hacking Heritage, Steering committee and presenter

2015        Opening lecture of speaker series, The Design School, University of Arizona

2015        Lecture, Interior Architecture, Department of Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai

2014        Keynote speaker, International Conference on Interior Architecture, [in]ARCH, University Indonisia

2013        Department of RMIT, University of Delft, Netherlands, RMIT lecture series.“Continuity and Disruption”

2012        Providence Partnership for Parks, Winter Academy 

2012-13 Providence, “Visions for your Park”

2012        Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, Carlton University, Ontario, Canada “Constructing Change”

2012        Department of Architecture, IVSA, Karachi, Pakistan, “Potentionality and Change”

2011       Speaker at International Conference of the constructed Environment, Chicago