František Sedláček

František Sedláček (born October 10, 1943 in Prague , † December 8, 2008 in Cologne ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

František Sedláček, who was born in Prague during the Second World War, attended a modern-language grammar school in his hometown after primary school , which he graduated from high school in 1961 . He finished an apprenticeship as a bricklayer in 1962. In the winter semester of 1962/63 he began studying architecture at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Development at the CVUT in Prague. After taking his diploma in 1968, he emigrated to England as a political refugee . In 1969 he took up the postgraduate course in Environmental Design at the Royal College of Art in London. From 1969 to 1974 he also worked as a freelancer in well-known architecture firms in Belgium, Italy, England, the USA and Germany. In 1974 he and his wife opened a joint architecture office in Munich . After having acquired German citizenship in the meantime, in 1986 he was appointed professor of design and building theory at the Faculty of Architecture at Cologne University of Applied Sciences . In 1988 he founded his own office in Cologne. In 1991 a second office was set up in Prague. In 2004 he stopped teaching.

Buildings (selection)

• 1979: Sports school, Munich (with H. Sedlacek, H. Kochta)
• 1983: Elisenhof, Munich (with H. Sedlacek, H. Kochta, B. Obersteinef)
• 1986: Nursing School Dachau (with H. Sedlacek, F. Schuster, G. Pechtold)
• 1989: Institute PEI + WA-BO-LU, Langen (with H. Sedlacek, HD Giesen, H. Renker)
• 1993: Parish Church of Christ Resurrection (Cologne) (with K. Pässler, M. Sundermann)
• 1996: "To the Golden Ship", Prague (with Atelier 91)
• 1997: Expansion of Agrippina insurance, Berlin (with Prof. U. Findeisen / Cologne)
• 1999: Conversion of the Czech Embassy, ​​Lisbon (with Atelier 91)

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1968: Design 2000, ICSID. Brussels
• 1990: High-rise buildings for Cologne, Cologne Chamber of Commerce
• 1992: Red Hill Residentional Area, Prague City Hall
• 1995: Czech Architecture 1945–1995, Fragner Gallery, Prague
• 2000: Action Word Movement Space, City Gallery, Prague
• 2001: Plan 01, Cologne

Publications

• Since 1996 editor of the yearbook AWA (Award Winning Architecture)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Michael Werling : Architecture teacher at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences Part I / The alumni . Published on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the department or faculty for architecture at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne 2006, p. 167 ff.
2. ↑ archiweb ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed March 16, 2013. 
3. ^ Elisenhof in Munich , accessed on March 16, 2013.
4. ↑ Nursing school in Dachau ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 16, 2013