Project Information

maxvogt-analysis contains research data – mainly geodata and Jupyter Notebooks – related to a project on railway infrastructure designed by Max Vogt. Moritz Twente and Luisa Omonsky analyse Vogt’s œuvre from an urban design perspective, taking into account the buildings’ placements in the built environment. In addition to this spatio-morphological analysis, another result of the project is an extensive survey of more than a hundred built structures that were designed by and/or under the supervision of Max Vogt during his time at SBB’s Zurich construction division. Combining different catalogues of works and linking additional sources to them, the authors present a novel online database built SBB heritage.

This project is presented as a poster at the Spatial Humanities 2024 conference at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, September 25th–27th, 2024. For more information on the poster and project background, you can also refer to the corresponding abstract.

People

Moritz Twente ORCID logo studied urban planning (B.Sc.) at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Northern European Studies (B.A.) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research interest lies in the role of politics at the intersection of space, design and the built environment. He works as data steward at Stadt.Geschichte.Basel and is enrolled in the Political Science and Digital Humanities programmes (M.A.) at Universität Basel.

moritz.twente@unibas.ch

Luisa Omonsky ORCID logo is working as a research assistant in the interdisciplinary DFG-project ‘Wohnen im Denkmal’ (Living in a Monument) at Technische Universität Wien in cooperation with Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. She graduated from the Urban Planning programme (B.Sc.) at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Heritage Conservation programme (M.A.) at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Her research interests include 20th century architecture, especially post-war modernism and post-modernism.

luisa.omonsky@tuwien.ac.at

Project Report

See mtwente.github.io/maxvogt for a collection of buildings and smaller physical structures designed by Max Vogt. There, results of the analyses in this repository are available as collection items. For each object, a short description is provided with information on the object’s spatial context and its design features from an urban design perspective.

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Citation

BibTeX citation:
@misc{twente2024,
  author = {Twente, Moritz and Omonsky, Luisa},
  title = {Project {Information}},
  date = {2024-09},
  url = {https://mtwente.github.io/maxvogt-analysis/docs/about.html},
  langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Twente, Moritz, and Luisa Omonsky. 2024. “Project Information.” Max Vogt: Morphologies of Arriving. Showcasing the Design Philosophy of Max Vogt’s Railway Stations. https://mtwente.github.io/maxvogt-analysis/docs/about.html.