Prof. Dr. phil. Hans-Rudolf Meier (Speaker)

Hans-Rudolf Meier is an art historian and monument conservator and has been professor of Denkmalpflege und Baugeschichte at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar since 2008, having previously held a professorship in monument studies and applied building research at TU Dresden. He is director of the International Heritage Centre IHZ at the Bauhaus University and spokesman for the research training group “Identity and Heritage”. He is a member of numerous expert committees (including the scientific commission of the German Foundation for Monument Protection, the design advisory board of the city of Baden-Baden) and a.O. Member of the BDA. From 2008-18, he was chairman of the Arbeitskreis Theorie und Lehre der Denkmalpflege e.V. He conducts research on the theory and history of monument conservation and on medieval and modern architecture.