- Hans Kollhoff
Hans Kollhoff (b.
Bad Lobenstein ,Thuringia , [de iconInstitut für Auslandsbeziehungen , 2007. http://kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de/datenblatt.php3?ID=556]September 18 ,1946 ) is a Germanarchitect andprofessor .He studied architecture from 1968 to 1973 at the
University of Karlsruhe withEgon Eiermann and studied abroad in 1974 at theVienna University of Technology inAustria . He received his diploma in 1975 inKarlsruhe . [de iconETH Zurich . http://fm-eth.ethz.ch/eth/peoplefinder/FMPro?-db=whoiswho.fp5&-lay=html&-format=who_detail_de.html&who_fk_legacy=899&-find] After that he held a scholarship atCornell University , New York, where he was the assistant ofOswald Mathias Ungers until 1978. Later, until 1983, he was assistant at "Technischen Universität" inBerlin , and founded his own architectural firm, which he has run with Helga Timmermann since 1984. Since 1990 he has been Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH inZürich . He has also had several guest-professorships and lecture tours, both at home and abroad. His projects as architect, in Germany and the rest of Europe, have been primarily within office-, business- and residential construction.Hans Kollhoff's architecture is characterised by a classical building-style and the use of solid, traditional materials, such as stone and brick, worked according to traditional methods. During his career, Kollhoff has developed in the direction of a more and more traditional form, often using classical motifs. For this reason he is sometimes criticized for creating an outdated "retro-architecture", that loses itself in a nostalgic imitation of traditional formalism. In Berlin, he has among other things drawn a building for
Potsdamer Platz . Here he built the middle high-rise tower in an old-New York brick style, on assignment fromDaimlerChrysler . He was also responsible for the high-rise buildings on theAlexanderplatz . Among his works are also the reconstruction of the formerReichsbank into the new Foreign Office, and the so-called "Leibnizkolonnaden" in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf near theKurfürstendamm . In 2005 he constructed the inner rooms of the exclusive night club "Goya" on Nollendorfplatz, that opened onDecember 1 in the building where the "Metropol" had formerly been. InFrankfurt am Main he has erected the 88 meter tall residential buildingMain Plaza in the "Deutschherrnviertel".At the moment, Kollhoff is president of the society for the "
Bauakademie ", that has as its goal to reconstruct this building by the architectKarl Friedrich Schinkel , and to let it be reborn as the "Berlin International Academy of Architecture".Literature
* Kollhoff, Hans, "Wohnen, Studentenprojekte" (1999) ISBN 3-7212-0464-6
* Kollhoff, Hans, "Hans Kollhoff: Architektur/Architecture" (2003) ISBN 3-7913-2656-2
* Cepl, Jasper, "Kollhoff & Timmermann Architects: Hans Kollhoff" (2004) ISBN 1-904313-27-2References
External links
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* [http://www.kollhoff.de/ Home page of firm]
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