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Volker Staab

b. 1957

German architect

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Born 1957. Volker Staab is a German architect and university teacher.

Volker Staab (born 25 December 1957) is a German architect.

Life Born in Heidelberg, Staab studied architecture from 1977 bis 1983 at the ETH Zürich (Diploma Architect ETH). From 1985 to 1990, he worked as a freelancer for the office of Dietrich Bangert, Bernd Jansen, Stefan Scholz and in Berlin. In the same year, he collaborated on the design for the Kunstmuseum Bonn.

He has been a freelance architect since 1990. In 1991 he founded the architectural practice Volker Staab. Since 1996 he has worked in partnership with Alfred Nieuwenhuizen under Staab Architekten, since 2007 as Staab Architekten GmbH.

In 2002–2004 Staab took on a visiting scholar position at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2002, he also received a lectureship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. In 2005, he became a visiting professor at the FH Münster and taught there until 2007. From 2008 to 2009, Staab held the deputy chair of architecture/public spaces and buildings at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Since 2012 he has held the professorship for design and spatial composition at the TU Braunschweig.

Memberships Staab is a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (since 1997), a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin (since 2005) und des Beirats der in Potsdam (since 2007). Since 2013 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the IBA Heidelberg and since 2014 a member of the Berlin State Monuments Council.

Buildings

1992–1994: Extension of the Maximilianeum, Munich 1992–1999: Neues Museum Nürnberg 1997–2000: Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt 2002–2004: Service Centre at the Theresienwiese, Munich 2000–2005: Maximilianeum, redesign of the plenary hall of the Bavarian State Parliament, Munich 2002–2006: German Embassy Mexico, Chancery Building, Mexico City 2002–2007: University of Heidelberg – New building Bioquant 2004–2007: Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz 2004–2010: Dresden, Sanierung und Neubau Zentraldepot 2008–2010: Erweiterung des 's NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg 2004–2011: University of Potsdam, Informations-, Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum Golm. 2005–2011: New Gallery, Kassel 2006–2011: Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Besucherzentrum Bad Wilhelmshöhe 2009–2011: Museum of the Bavarian Kings, Hohenschwangau 2010–2012: Nano-Bioanalytics Centre NBZ, Münster 2005–2013: Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Münster. 2008–2013: . 2008–2013: Ministry of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2010–2015: Conversion and extension of the Richard-Wagner-Museum 2013–2016: General renovation and conversion of the House of the Landtage, Stuttgart since 2016: Erweiterungsbau Bauhaus Archive 2009–2017: , Potsdam since 2017: Residential complex, Landsberg am Lech (Civil engineer: Michael Heubl). 2018: Sanierung und Erweiterung Zeughaus München zur Fakultät für Design der Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences. 2013–2019: Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology 2013–2014: Willy-Brandt-Schule (Warsaw), Deutsch-Polnische 2015–2019: . 2008–2020: Augustinerhof, Nürnberg 2013–2020: Rehabilitation and expansion of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt. 2020: Protestant Centre, Augsburg.

Prizes 1995: BDA-Preis Bayern for expansion of the Bavarian Parliament, Munich 2000: Preis für Stadtbildpflege der Stadt München for expansion of the Bavarian Parliament Architekturpreis Beton (2001; 2014) for Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, and Visitor Centre at the Herkules, Kassel 2001: Deutscher Natursteinpreis for New Museum Nuremberg 2001: Special recognition of the for New Museum Nuremberg 2005: for Servicezentrum, Theresienwiese München 2005: , Award, for Service Centre on the Theresienwiese, Munich 2009: of the BDA Baden-Württemberg for Heidelberg University, new building Bioquant 2010: Architekturpreis 2010 of the BDA Saxony for Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz 2011: Deutscher Architekturpreis for Albertinum Dresden, Redevelopment and new construction of depository 2011: Großer BDA Preis 2012: for NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg 2012: for Erweiterung des Firmensitzes von Nya Nordiska, Dannenberg 2013: Nike in der Kategorie Fügung for NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg 2013: Deutscher Fassadenpreis für vorgehängte hinterlüftete Fassaden for der Hochschule Darmstadt 2013: , Perfection of detail category, for Museum of the Bavarian Kings, Hohenschwangau 2014: Landesbaupreis Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop 2014: Deutscher Hochschulbaupreis für Informations-, Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Potsdam 2017: Deutscher Architekturpreis, Auszeichnung, for Generalsanierung Haus des Landtags, Stuttgart 2017: Bayerischer Staatspreis Bauen im Bestand for Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth 2018: Deutscher Städtebaupreis, Auszeichnung, for LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster 2018: Hugo-Häring-Landespreis des BDA Baden-Württemberg für Haus des Landtags, Stuttgart. 2018: Bundespreis Europäische Stadt, 3. Preis, für Jüdisches Gemeindezentrum mit Synagoge, Regensburg 2019: Architekturpreis Regensburg, Jüdisches Gemeindezentrum mit Synagoge, Regensburg 2019: Deutscher Architekturpreis, award for Science and Restoration Centre, Potsdam

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Born
1957, Heidelberg
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Nationality
Employers
Technische Universität Berlin, TU Braunschweig
Awards
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Prize of the city of Nuremberg

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German architect

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Volker Staab was born in 1957 in Heidelberg.

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Volker Staab is an architect and university teacher.

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Volker Staab is German.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Volker Staab

· Wikidata: Q1122493

· DBpedia: Volker Staab

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