Gunnar Volkmann

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Gunnar Volkmann (born May 19, 1958 in Duisburg ) is a German architect .

Career

Gunnar Volkmann was born in Duisburg in 1958. 1974–1975 he spent a year at school in Seattle , USA . In 1978 he began studying architecture at the University of Dortmund with Josef Paul Kleihues . In 1981 he switched to Bernhard Hoesli at the ETH Zurich and received his diploma in architecture from Gottfried Böhm at the RWTH Aachen in 1985 .

After a short period in the Volkmann office in Duisburg, Gunnar Volkmann worked in the Suter + Suter Architects office in Düsseldorf from 1986 to 1989 and in their Basel office from 1989 to 1991 . In 1991 he took over the office management and the power of attorney for the office in Lörrach and moved to Leipzig in 1993 , where he also took over the office management for the office there. Since 1995 Gunnar Volkmann has been managing director of Weis & Volkmann in Leipzig together with Gabriele Weis, from 2014 under Weis & Volkmann Berlin GmbH in Leipzig and Berlin. In 2016 the name was changed to W&V Architekten GmbH.

Memberships

Prizes and awards

(according to the W&V Architects website)

Stilt house
Messhofpassage
Children's hospice in Keesschen Park
Villa Thomana, Leipzig
Stentzler's court
Administration building, Weißenfels
  • 1999 Architecture Prize of the City of Leipzig - Project "Holzhaus", Leipzig
  • 2000 Hieronymus Lotter Prize (recognition / 2nd prize) - “Hainstrasse 8” project, Leipzig
  • 2003 Architecture Prize of the City of Leipzig (Honorable Mention) - “ Stelzenhaus ” project , Leipzig
  • 2004 Saxon State Prize for Architecture - “Stelzenhaus” project, Leipzig
  • 2004 German Reconstruction Award (Honorable Recognition) - “Stelzenhaus” project, Leipzig
  • 2004 Hieronymus Lotter Prize (recognition / 2nd prize) - “Stelzenhaus” project, Leipzig
  • 2007 Architecture Prize of the City of Leipzig (Honorable Mention) - “Sweetwater” project, Leipzig
  • 2007 Award for the architecture prize of the state of Saxony-Anhalt - project "Martinszentrum", Bernburg
  • 2008 German Urban Development Award (Honorable Mention) - “Sweetwater” project, Leipzig
  • 2008 German Urban Development Award (2nd prize)
  • 2004 Hieronymus Lotter Prize (recognition / 2nd prize) - “villa thomana” project, Leipzig
  • 2009 nomination for the European Mies van der Rohe Prize - “Martinszentrum” project, Bernburg
  • 2009 German Timber Construction Award (shortlist) - “Martinszentrum” project, Bernburg
  • 2009 Architecture Prize Future Living (shortlist) - “Sweetwater” project, Leipzig
  • 2012 A + U Architektur 2002-2012 in Germany - the 100 best projects, Japan
  • 2012 Altenheim-Award Vincentz-Verlag: “Project of the year 2012” - Project “Am Sonnenpark”, Leipzig
  • 2013 Saxon Old Age Aid Award 2013 - Project “Am Sonnenpark”, Leipzig
  • 2017 German Landscape Architecture Award 2017 “Climate Adaptation and Sustainability Award” - “Terranova” project, Bergheim
  • 2017 Leipzig Real Estate Prize 2017 "Award Category Monument" - Project "Salomonstift", Leipzig
  • 2017 Architecture Prize of the City of Leipzig for the promotion of building culture - project elementary school and after-school care forum thomanum "", Leipzig

buildings

  • 2001–03 Reconstruction of the stilt house , Leipzig
  • 2002–03 LVZ -online - media center, Leipzig
  • 2004–05 exhibition center on the market , Leipzig
  • 2004–05 “Sweetwater” town houses in Industriestraße, Leipzig
  • 2005–06 Messehofpassage, Leipzig
  • 2006–07 Martinszentrum Bernburg
  • 2006-08 meeting and cultural center of the Israelite religious community in Leipzig
  • 2007–08 transmission plant Neugart Kippenheim, Baden-Württemberg
  • 2007–08 Children's Hospice Keesscher Park Markkleeberg
  • 2007-08 “villa thomana” forum thomanum, Leipzig
  • 2007–08 “kita forum thomanum” forum thomanum, Leipzig
  • 2008–10 Arsenal Wittenberg, Lutherstadt Wittenberg
  • 2010–11 Reconstruction and expansion of Wendische Höfe Rittergutsstrasse, Leipzig
  • 2012–14 elementary school in Ostrau
  • 2013–15 residential quarter “Salomonstift” Oststraße, Leipzig
  • 2013–15 Trade Center Neue Mitte, Fürth
  • 2015–17 MEG Weißenfels administration building
  • 2016–17 residential building on Gletschersteinstrasse, Leipzig
  • 2015–17 New primary school with after-school care center (conversion) Schreberstrasse, forum thomanum, Leipzig

literature

  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig: Architecture from the Romanesque to the present, Passage-Verlag, 2nd edition, Leipzig 2004, p. 335.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Awards - W&V Architects. Retrieved September 7, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Volkmann, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg