Felix Burrichter

Burrichter was born and raised in Düsseldorf, Germany and attended part of high school in Southern California.{{cite web|date=October 1, 2013|title=At home with Felix Burrichter|url=http://gayletter.com/at-home-with-felix-burrichter/|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=Gayletter}} He studied architecture at the École Spéciale d'Architecture as well as École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in Paris, France and moved to New York City to obtain a master's degree at Columbia University.

In 2006, Burrichter launched Pin-Up magazine after working at a corporate New York architecture firm drawing Photoshop illustrations and making mood boards.{{Cite web |date=2021-12-06 |title=How Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Feeds His Insatiable Curiosity |url=https://www.slowdown.tv/article/felix-burrichter-media-diet |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=The Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future |language=en}} The bi-annual publication, known as the "Magazine for Architectural Entertainment", covers a range of highbrow and lowbrow topics in fashion, art, politics, architecture, and design.{{cite web|date=January 24, 2013|title=Felix Burrichter's Pin-Up Is The Playboy Of Architecture Magazines |url=https://architizer.com/blog/inspiration/industry/felix-burrichters-pin-up-is-the-playboy-of-architecture-magazines/|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=Architizer Journal}} Burrichter credits his time as an intern at Butt magazine in Amsterdam under Jop van Bennekom and Gert Jonkers (of Fantastic Man magazine) for inspiration to forge a new magazine that loosened up the idea of the architect as genius.{{cite web|last=Anello|first=Felix Burrichter, Chloe|date=August 27, 2021|title=What Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Can't Live Without|url=https://nymag.com/strategist/article/pinup-magazine-felix-burrichter-favorite-things.html|access-date=September 20, 2021|website=The Strategist}} The magazine has run features and interviews on a number of prominent architects such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Maria Pergay, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Martino Gamper, and Ettore Sottsass.{{cite web|date=September 3, 2021|title=Kips Bay Decorator Show House Shares Renderings, IKEA Debuts a New Collaboration, and More News|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kips-bay-decorator-show-house-shares-renderings-ikea-debuts-a-new-collaboration-and-more-news|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=Architectural Digest}}

Burrichter curated an exhibition, titled Paper Weight – Genre-Defining Magazines 2000 to Now, at the Haus der Kunst in 2013 that surveyed the rise of 15 independent publications having launched since the dawn of the 21st century.{{cite web|title=Graphic Design: Munich show celebrates this {{sic|nolink=y|milennium's}} indie magazine stars|url=https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/haus-der-kunst-paper-weight|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=www.itsnicethat.com}}{{cite web|date=October 1, 2013|title=Paper Weight — Genre-defining Magazines 2000 to Now|url=https://www.abitare.it/en/archive/2013/10/01/paper-weight-genre-defining-magazines-2000-to-now/|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Abitare}} The exhibition included a range of magazine's covering architecture, design, sex and fashion such as Apartamento, 032c, The Gentlewoman, Toilet Paper, Girls Like Us, CANDY, and White Zinfandel.{{cite web|title=Paper Weight Genre-defining Magazines 2000 to Now, Munich|url=https://aestheticamagazine.com/paper-weight-genre-defining-magazines-2000-to-now-munich/|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Aesthetica}}

In 2015, Burrichter asked 10 international designers to populate a Stockholm park with benches of their imagination in a 2015 public art project titled Superbenches.{{cite web|date=May 5, 2017|title=Max Lamb, Scholten & Baijings and Philippe Malouin create 'Superbenches' for suburban Stockholm park|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2017/05/05/max-lamb-scholten-baijings-philippe-malouin-superbenches-community-stockholm-suburb-regeneration/|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Dezeen}} The park included original works by Philippe Malouin, Naihan Li, Max Lamb, Märta Hägglund and Sanna Gripner, and Luca Cipelletti, amongst several others.{{cite web|last=Ro|first=Lauren|date=June 15, 2017|title=10 designers try their hand at public furniture for a Stockholm suburb|url=https://archive.curbed.com/2017/6/15/15812842/superbenches-public-furniture-kalejdohill-jarfalla-felix-burrichter|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Curbed}} Later that year, Burrichter curated Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home. The exhibition, located at the Swiss Institute, used architect and designer Le Corbusier as guide for exploring 21st-century domesticity.{{cite web|title=Swiss Institute Launches the 2nd Annual Architecture & Design Series, Curated by Felix Burrichter|url=https://www.artbook.com/blog-event-artbook-at-swiss-institute-corbusier-design.html|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=www.artbook.com}}{{cite web|title=Swiss Institute Annual Architecture and Design Series: Second Edition, Pavillion de L'Esprit Nouveau: A 21st Century Show Home, Curated by Felix Burrichter|url=https://dzekdzekdzek.com/|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=DZEK Ltd.}}

Michael Bullock and Burrichter curated a day-long eco-conference in 2016 called SEEDING at the Museum of Arts and Design.{{cite web|title=MAD and Pin–Up Magazine Present 'SEEDING,' a Day-Long Eco-Conference Exploring the Cross-Pollination of Ecology and Economy|url=https://madmuseum.org/press/releases/mad-and-pin%E2%80%93-magazine-present-seeding-day-long-eco-conference-exploring-cross|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=madmuseum.org}}

In 2019, Burrichter collaborated with Adam Charlap Hyman of interior design firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero on an exhibit Blow-Up.{{cite web|date=February 6, 2019|title=Felix Burrichter on his uncanny new exhibit and very canny magazine, Pin-Up|url=https://businessofhome.com/articles/felix-burrichter-on-his-uncanny-new-exhibit-and-very-canny-magazine-pin-up|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=businessofhome.com}} The exhibition at Friedman Benda gallery in Chelsea was dubbed a "Freudian trip through a 1:1 dollhouse", and featured design works by Gaetano Pesce, Studio España, Katie Stout, Misha Kahn, Telfar Clemens, and more.{{cite web|title=Where Walls Float and Hearts Are Garbage: Felix Burrichter's BLOW UP |url=https://032c.com/blow-up-felix-burrichters-dollhouse|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=032c}}

Burrichter has been a contributing writer to T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Fantastic Man, W, and Wired Italia{{cite web|title=Felix Burrichter|url=http://beopenfuture.com/community/felix-burrichter/|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=BeOpenFuture}}

From 2008 to 2010, he served as Butt magazine's editor.{{Cite web |date=2021-12-06 |title=How Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Feeds His Insatiable Curiosity |url=https://www.slowdown.tv/article/felix-burrichter-media-diet |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=The Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future |language=en}}

Burrichter edited Studio Work, a 2012 monograph of work by photographer Paul Mpagi Sepuya. The book featured portraits, snapshots, and various archival ephemera inside the artist's studio as well as text by writer Wayne Konstenbaum.{{cite web|title=Paul Mpagi Sepuya - Studio Work Zine|url=https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/57148/|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=Printed Matter}}

Pin-Up Interviews was published in 2013 and covers over 50 conversations and interviews from previous Pin-Up issues.{{cite web|date=October 1, 2013|title=Pin-Up Interviews Features Conversations with Zaha Hadid, Peter Marino, and More|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/pin-up-interviews-book|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Architectural Digest}} The 448-page work doesn't include any pictures and subjects include architects Odile Decq and Charles Renfro, fashion designers Rick Owens and Hedi Slimane, and artists Daniel Arsham and Robert Wilson.{{cite web|title=Pin-Up Interviews|url=http://www.designersandbooks.com/book/pin-interviews|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Designers & Books}}

In 2017, Burrichter wrote and edited a monograph of Italian design furniture titled Cassina: This Will Be the Place: Thoughts and Photographs About the Future of Interiors.{{cite web|last1=Burrichter|first1=Author Felix|last2=Cassina|title=Book|url=https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847860746/|access-date=September 15, 2021|website=Rizzoli New York}} The book includes five interviews with architecture and design scholars and practitioners including curator and historian Beatriz Colomina and Finnish architect Martti Kalliala as well as five conceptual ideas turned into conceptual interiors, each with pieces from Cassina's catalog.{{cite web|last=jill|date=December 19, 2017|title=This 90-Year-Old Company's New Book is Anything But Old-Fashioned|url=https://www.sightunseen.com/2017/12/cassina-this-will-be-the-place/|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Sight Unseen}}

In 2021, after 15 years as the publication's editor, Burrichter brought on furniture designer and writer Emmanuel Olunkwa to serve as the new editor.{{Cite web |date=2021-12-06 |title=How Pin-Up Magazine Founder Felix Burrichter Feeds His Insatiable Curiosity |url=https://www.slowdown.tv/article/felix-burrichter-media-diet |access-date=2022-12-20 |website=The Slowdown - Culture, Nature, Future |language=en}}

A limited-edition art book, Barbie Dreamhouse: An Architectural Survey, was published by PIN-UP and Mattel in late 2022. The monograph honored the dreamhouse's 60-year milestone.{{Cite news |last=Lasky |first=Julie |date=2022-12-14 |title=A Six-Decade Tour of Barbie's Dreamhouses |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/style/barbie-dreamhouse-history-six-decades.html |access-date=2022-12-20 |issn=0362-4331}}

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