Carlo Weber (architect)

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Carlo Weber (born April 6, 1934 as Karlheinz Weber in Saarbrücken ; † May 15, 2014 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Carlo Weber studied architecture from 1954 to 1958 and from 1960 to 1961 at the Technical University of Stuttgart . From 1957 to 1966 he worked with Günter Behnisch and Bruno Lambart in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf and then with Louis Arretche in Paris . From 1959 to 1960 he studied at the École des beaux-arts in Paris with a DAAD scholarship . From 1966 to 1979 he was a partner in the Behnisch & Partner architectural association . Together with Günter Behnisch, Fritz Auer , Eberhard Tränkner and Winfried Büxel, Weber is the planner of the Munich Olympic Stadium - landscape planning Günther Grzimek.

From 1980 to 2014 he ran an office with Fritz Auer in Stuttgart and Munich . From 1980 to 1992 he had a teaching position at the University of Stuttgart. From 1991 he was a partner in the “ Auer Weber ” office in Stuttgart. From 1992 to 2002 a professorship for building theory and design at the Technical University of Dresden followed . Weber was a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts and was secretary of the academy's architecture class from 2000 to 2011. Carlo Weber lived in Stuttgart.

buildings

responsible in Auer + Weber / Auer + Weber + Associates

  • House of Archeology, Chemnitz 2013
  • Main organ, Constantine Basilica in Trier 2012
  • Sparkasse Memmingen 2010
  • École Nonnewisen, Luxembourg 2011
  • Seminar building Gut Siggen 2007
  • Exhibition building Brühlsche Terrasse Dresden 2005
  • Ruth Merkle House - ratiopharm, Ulm 2004
  • Sports hall Aurain, Bietigheim-Bissingen 2003
  • State Central Bank Bremen in Halberstadt, 2000
  • Kurmittelhaus Bad Brambach, 2000
  • Amazon House Wilhelma Stuttgart, 1999
  • Festspielhaus Recklinghausen , 1998
  • Casino and cafeteria of the Army Officers' School in Dresden, 1998
  • Theater Hof , 1994
  • Administration building of Stadtwerke Reutlingen, 1991
  • Ulm University cafeteria, 1989
  • Retirement home and nursing home in Lemgo, 1986
  • Bad Salzuflen spa guest center, 1983

Awards and honors

Awards (extract)
as a partner in Behnisch & Partner

  • 1981: UIA Architecture Prize, Olympic Facilities Munich 1972
  • 1981: Auguste Perret Prize , Olympic Facilities Munich 1972

in Auer + Weber / Auer + Weber + Associates

  • 2010: DIVA Award, Officecenter RIVERGATE, Vienna
  • 2007: German Architecture Prize, recognition of the Brühlsche Terrasse exhibition building, Dresden
  • 2006: Dedalo Minosse Prize, Special Prize, Center solarCity Linz-Pichling, Austria
  • 2005: LEAF Awards , category “Best Environmentally Sustainable Project”, Center solarCity Linz-Pichling, Austria
  • 2004: Leaf Awards, category “New Build” + “Overall”, ESO Hotel on Cerro Paranal, Chile
  • 2001: German Architecture Prize , Ruhrfestspielhaus Recklinghausen
  • 1995: German Architecture Prize, recognition by Theater Hof
  • 1991: Fritz Schumacher Prize
  • 1991: Critics' Prize for Architecture, German Pavilion EXPO '92 Seville
  • 1989: German Architecture Prize District Office Starnberg

literature

  • Falk Jaeger (Ed.): Auer + Weber + Assoziierte - Portfolio (texts in German and English) Jovis, Berlin 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. among others: Carlo Weber (architect). In: arch INFORM .
  2. ^ Dietrich Heißenbüttel: Carlo Weber - The architect of lightness. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 17, 2014, p. 32.