Bernd Sikora

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Bernd Sikora (born August 18, 1940 in Stollberg / Erzgeb. ) Is a German architect , designer and author .

Live and act

Sikora is the child of the merchant family Georg and Eleonore Sikora. After spending his childhood and youth in Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains, trips to Leipzig, Stuttgart and Lake Maggiore shaped his career aspiration to become an architect. After graduating from high school, he studied architecture and structural engineering at the Leipzig Civil Engineering School from 1956 to 1960 . After graduating, he worked as an architect in building construction until 1965. Through his collaboration with artists in trade fair and exhibition construction, he became increasingly interested in design. From 1965 to 1970 he studied at the University of Graphic and Book Art in Leipzig under Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer, among others . After this study, Sikora worked as a freelance artist in the field of applied arts and received a teaching position for design theory at the TU Magdeburg from 1971 and a teaching position for art history, stage design and design theory at the Leipzig Theater Academy from 1972 to 1997 . After German reunification, he founded his own architecture office together with Hans Krusenbaum and Bodo von Essen and was involved in various art and cultural projects, including for the Waldstrasse district and "Neue Ufer" in Leipzig. He is a lecturer for industrial architecture at the Institute for Industrial Archeology, History of Science and Technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and speaker at lectures and guided tours. Sikora is a founding member of the German Werkbund Sachsen. From 2006 to 2008 he was chairman of the German Werkbund.

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buildings

The Glückaufturm

Fonts

  • Oelsnitz / Ore Mountains. The new landscape. Passage, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-932900-27-8 .
  • Days in Oelsnitz in the Ore Mountains. Miriquidi Media, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-9809271-1-6 .
  • Industrial architecture in Saxony. Preserved by new use. Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-361-00654-6 .
  • The Leipzig Waldstrasse district - A guide through past and present Miriquidi Media, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-9809271-2-3 .
  • with Peter Franke: On the way. Between Leipzig and the Ore Mountains. Sax, Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-86729-130-9 .
  • Balancing acts. A life between art, architecture and politics. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2018, ISBN 978-3-95462-956-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Employee at the Institute for Industrial Archeology, History of Science and Technology at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Bernd Sikora - VITA. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Saxony Chamber of Architects, archived from the original on September 12, 2017 ; Retrieved June 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / aksachsen.org

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personal data
SURNAME Sikora, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, author and designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stollberg / Erzgeb.