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 Monika Koeck Visions of Cities - Cities of Visions USA 2000 The city will no longer exist as a well-composed conglomerate of cultures and professions. It will be a specialized place where everything is focussed on the purpose of the city, its industrial or technological aspects. Just like for example Silicon Valley. There will be cities that will not pay attention to our natural resources and destroy themselves. To have a better life there will be cities created, which pretend to be paradise, but for what price? For suffering at our work place, the city of technology, being isolated and lonely? For living in an artificial and not grown place with bad urban planning? The visions of the city in the future are negative and disastrous. Hopefully "the city" will create its own vision, and hopefully this vision will be a composition incorporating all aspects of urban living, the positive and the negative in a well-balanced grown society. Monika Evelyn Koeck, born on 30.03.1969 in Augsburg, Germany, received the A-level certificate (Allgemeine Hochschulreife) in Germany in 1989. From 1989 to 1993 she studied archeology, at the University of Augsburg and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Monika Koeck started her architectural studies at the FH-Augsburg, University of Applied Sciences, in 1993. For her thesis project she was awarded from the German Academic Exchange Council (DAAD-Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) a one-year-long research scholarship for extended studies in the United States. She received the German academic title "Diplom-Ingenieur für Architektur" from the FH-Augsburg in 1998. Monika Koeck worked professionally for the state department in Germany on several new developments. Besides her architectural career, she perused for 12 years a professional dance career as choreographer, dancer, and dance captain in diverse areas from ballet, operas, Broadway-musicals in over 1000 performances. In 1997 she was awarded with honor for special services from the "Alt-Augsburg-Gesellschaft" (Historical Society). Since 1997 she lives in the United States and partnered with her husband Richard Koeck in several international competitions, such as the "EUROPANDOM" international urban competition in Montreuil, France in 1999. In 2000 her entry for the international competition of "La Biennale di Venezia" with the title "Four Visions" was selected. Since 1998 Monika Koeck teaches as Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA, where she received in 2000 presidential recognition as "Faculty in Residence". She currently researches in the area of body-movement-space-time relationship and methods to use movement as design determining factor as well as the moving image in architecture. |
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