Detlef Mertins
Detlef Mertins (US) is an architectural theorist.
Detlef Mertins
Detlef Mertins studied architecture in Toronto, then received a PhD from Princeton University. After teaching at the University of Toronto for ten years, he moved in 2002 to Philadelphia, where he is Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Department of Architecture at Penn University. Mertins has also been visiting professor at Columbia, Harvard, Princeton and Rice universities.
Amongst his numerous publications are The Presence of Mies (1994), and Metropolitan Mutations: The Architecture of Emerging Public Spaces (1989). Mertins is well-known for his essays on the history of modernism, featured in Mies in Berlin, Mies in America, NOX: Machining Architecture, and Phylogenesis: FOA's Ark. His research focuses on the history and theory of modernism in architecture, art, philosophy, and urbanism.
With V2_ publishing, Mertins contributed to Interact or Die! (2007) and wrote for the foreword for The Architecture of Continuity (2008).
http://www.design.upenn.edu/people/mertins_detlef
