- Werner Sobek
Werner Sobek (born
May 16 ,1953 ) is a Germanarchitect andstructural engineer .Life
Sobek was born
1953 inAalen ,Germany . From1974 to1980 , he studied structural engineering and architecture at theUniversity of Stuttgart . From1980 to1986 , he was post-graduate fellow in the research project 'Wide-Span Lightweight Structures' at the University of Stuttgart and finished hisPhD 1987 in structural engineering.From
1987 to1991 , he was structural engineer in the office of Schlaich, Bergermann & Partner,Stuttgart . In the same year, he became professor at theUniversity of Hanover (successor toBernd Tokarz ) and director of the Institute for Structural Design and Building Methods.In
1992 he founded his own engineering firmWerner Sobek Ingenieure .Since
1995 , he has been a professor at theUniversity of Stuttgart (successor toFrei Otto ) director of the Institute for Lightweight Structures and of the Central Laboratory for Structural Engineering.In2000 , he took over the chair ofJörg Schlaich ; and fused the Institute for Lightweight Structures and the Institute for Construction and Design into the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design.Projects
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Ecole Nationale d'Art Décoratif ,Limoges ,France
*Interbank ,Lima ,Peru
* Roof over the centercourt of theRothenbaum stadium ,Hamburg ,Germany
*Suvarnabhumi Airport ,Bangkok ,Thailand
*Sony Center ,Berlin ,Germany
*House R 128 ,Stuttgart ,Germany References
* [http://www.wernersobek.de/index.php?page=100 Biography Professor Werner Sobek] . Retrieved 2008-07-25. (Biography from Sobek's firm's homepage).
* [http://www.sbp.de] Schlaich Bergermann und Partner
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