Andres Lepik
Since 2012, Andres Lepik has been chair of History of Architecture and Curatorial Practices of the Technische Universität München and director of the Architecture Museum of TUM. The main focus of Lepik’s work is the history and theory of architecture exhibitions and contemporary developments in the field of architectures of social engagement and participatory architectural structures.
After studying history of art at the University of Augsburg, in 1987 Lepik was awarded a fellowship for his doctoral studies on the Architectural Model in Italy 1353-1500 at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. Having completed a professional level trainee program at the Berlin State Museums, in 1998 he became personal assistant to the general director and in 2004, head of the 20th/21st century architecture collection of the Art Library.
In 2007 he became curator of the Architecture and Design Department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he curated a number of exhibitions, including Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement in 2010/11. He is the author of numerous publications about historic and modern architecture and public engagement.