Alban Janson

Alban Janson (* 1948 ) is a German architect , architectural theorist , university professor , draftsman and painter .

Life

Alban Janson initially studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Karlsruhe . A two-year planning activity in Dar es Salaam ( Tanzania ) followed the scientific collaboration in university teaching . With a study of fine art 1981-1984 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, Janson struck the path to free artistic activity. At the same time, he founded the architecture firm Janson & Wolfrum together with Sophie Wolfrum in 1989 . After a professorship for design theory at the Stuttgart University of Technology from 1984-1994, Janson headed the Institute for Fundamentals of Design at the University of Karlsruhe (now KIT) from 1994 and until 2013 the chair for Fundamentals of Architecture there. Since 2013 he has been working as a draftsman and painter with a studio in Munich.

Buildings and designs (selection)

• 1990–1996 (with Schmelzer and Bezzenberger): Stadtgarten Böblingen
• 1993–2002: Scharnhauser Park district in Ostfildern
• 1995: Wandelhalle in the city garden of Böblingen
• 2001: House for children in Scharnhauser Park
• 2003–2006: Planning of the Aachen-Herzogenrath Horse Park

Awards (selection)

• 1995: German Urban Development Award
• 1997: Hugo Häring Prize , together with Sophie Wolfrum for the project "... Böblingen City Garden "
• 1997: German Landscape Architecture Prize
• 2003: Hugo Häring Prize
• 2006: German Urban Development Award, Janson & Wolfrum office together with Frank Roser, Heike Mezger, Claus Walker and Dietmar Meck for the Ostfildern project : Scharnhauser Park district in Ostfildern .
• 2006: Finalist European Landscape Price Rosa Barba

Fonts (selection)

• (with Thorsten Bürklin): Appearances. Interactions with the architectural space. The campuses of Venice. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6585-4 .
• (with Carsten Krohn): Le Corbusier, Unité d'habitation, Marseille. Edition Axel Menges , Stuttgart / London 2007, ISBN 978-3-932565-65-6 .
• (with Florian Tigges): Basic concepts of architecture. The vocabulary of spatial situations. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-0346-1245-6 .
• (with Florian Tigges): Fundamental Concepts of Architecture. The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin- 2014, ISBN 978-3-0346-0892-3 .
• (with Sophie Wolfrum): Architecture of the City. Kraemer-Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-7828-1147-7 .
• (with Sophie Wolfrum): The city as architecture. (New edition of Architektur der Stadt ) Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-0356-1797-9 .
• (with Gerd de Bruyn): The dangling stork. (64 ink drawings) Edition Staub, Neuss 2019, ISBN 978-3-928294-82-9 .

Web links

• alban-janson.de , last accessed on July 20, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Prof. Sophie Wolfrum professoren.tum.de, accessed on August 6, 2020.
2. ↑ Frank (ARCH) Metzger: KIT - Architecture - Faculty - People - Former professors. July 24, 2020, accessed on August 1, 2020 (German). 
3. ^ Landscape architects: Angela Bezzenberger, Darmstadt and Brigitte Schmelzer, Stuttgart.
4. ↑ Urban Development Award 2006: Ostfildern: Scharnhauser Park district in Ostfildern.Retrieved on August 6, 2020.