Finn Geipel


Finn Geipel is a German Architect and Urbanist. He is co-founder of the architecture and urban planning office LIN.

Life

Geipel studied architecture from 1981 to 1987 at the University of Stuttgart. In 1983, together with Bernd Hoge and Jochen Hunger, he founded Labfac, Laboratory for Architecture, a network of architects and artists. In 1987, collaboration with Nicolas Michelin began a new chapter of Labfac in Paris.
In 2001, Finn Geipel and Giulia Andi founded the architecture and urban planning office LIN. Based in Berlin and Paris, the office works on a wide range of projects and research assignments throughout Europe. Recent projects include the renovation of Saint-Nazaire submarine bunker, the Cité du Design in St. Etienne and Grand Paris Métropole Douce.
Finn Geipel is a full-time professor of architecture and building science in the architecture department at Berlin Institute of Technology, since 2000. He is the advisor of the Laboratory for Integrative Architecture, a research branch of LIN at Berlin Institute of Technology. He has been a visiting professor at École Spéciale d'Architecture Paris, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura Barcelona, Columbia University New York and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Boston-Cambridge.
Since 2012, Finn Geipel has been a member of the Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt University of Berlin.
Finn Geipel is a member of the :fr:Atelier international du Grand Paris|AIGP-Atelier International du Grand Paris, the scientific advisory board of the Grand Paris Métropole Douce.

Work