About Niklas Maak

Niklas Maak is a writer and a professor in Architecture at the Städel Fine Arts Institute in Frankfurt.

Since 2001, he has been the editor for art and architecture at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He taught architecture at Harvard (2014-2020) and was a co-author and co-curator of Rem Koolhaas‘ research project Countryside and the eponymous exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

He has received numerous awards for his work. Among his latest publications are Living complex. From Zombie City to the New Communal and the novel Technophoria, which is currently being adapted as a TV series.

Photo: Frank Rödt