Karl-Heinz Petzinka

Karl-Heinz Petzinka (born 7 January 1956) is a German architect, and Rector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He is known for office buildings in Düsseldorf and Berlin. He converted historic industrial buildings, and was responsible for the section architecture for the Ruhr.2010 project.

Career

Born in Bocholt, Petzinka studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen from 1976 and graduated in 1982 with the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur. In 1981, he received the North Rhine-Westphalia state's Förderpreis for young artists in the field of architecture. After his first professional years 1982–1983 as a freelance architect in the office of O. M. Ungers in Cologne, he worked as an assistant to at the RWTH Aachen from 1983 to 1985. From 1986 to 1987, he was a scholarship holder of the Villa Massimo in the architecture category. At the same time, he founded the Petzinka Pink Architekten studio together with Thomas Pink in 1994, with offices in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Petzinka left the company in November 2011.

In 2007, Petzina was appointed as one of four program directors of the Ruhr.2010 project for the Ruhr being European Capital of Culture in 2010. He was responsible for the sector "City of Possibilities" which included architecture, urban development and visual arts.

Since 2008, he has been professor of the Baukunst class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Petzinka has also planned and realised buildings in the commercial, public and administrative sectors as well as private residences. In Gelsenkirchen, he was involved in the construction of the , the Nordstern Video Art Centre Goetz Collection, the planning of the urban development project Stadtquartier am Schloß Horst, and the revitalization of both the workshop building of the Zeche Nordstern and of the Rote Halle in Düsseldorf.

Publications Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz, Jürgen Volkwein, Florian Lang: Technische Gebäudeausstattung In Giebeler, Fisch, Krause, Musso, Petzinka, Rudolphi: "Atlas Sanierung. Instandhaltung, Umbau, Ergänzung" Birkhäuser, Basel 2008. Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz: Planen und Bauen in Lebenszyklen In Energieatlas – Nachhaltige Architektur; Birkhäuser, Basel 2007.

Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Thomas Pink, Johannes Busmann: Technologische Architektur; Birkhäuser, Basel 2004.