Hans Kollhoff

Hans Kollhoff (born September 18, 1946 in Lobenstein , Thuringia ) is a German architect and university professor . at the ETH Zurich .

Kollhoff Tower in Berlin , Potsdamer Platz

Life

Kollhoff studied architecture from 1968 to 1973 at the University of Karlsruhe and 1974 at the Technical University of Vienna . In 1975 he graduated in Karlsruhe with Ottokar Uhl . He then received a scholarship at Cornell University / New York , where he was assistant to Oswald Mathias Ungers until 1978 . After that he was an assistant at the TU Berlin until 1983 . He founded his own architectural office, which he has been running in partnership with the architect Helga Timmermann for many years since 1984. From 1990 to 2012 he was Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH Zurich. Several visiting professorships and numerous lecture tours at home and abroad underline his international standing. He works in Germany and Europe, mainly in office, commercial and residential construction.

In contrast to his first large projects, Hans Kollhoff's late architecture is particularly noticeable through its classic building design and the use of traditional materials such as natural stone and brick in traditional craftsmanship. The architecture of Hans Kollhoff increasingly developed in the direction of an emphatically traditional language of forms in which he often takes up classicist motifs.

In 2009 he failed with a lawsuit against the federal government against the award of the new building for the Berlin City Palace to the competition winner Franco Stella . Kollhoff took third place in the castle competition with his office. After the verdict, he called for the award procedure to be restarted.

Kollhoff runs a studio in Rotkreuz , Switzerland .

Buildings (selection)

Main Plaza in Frankfurt am Main

European House , Unter den Linden 78, Berlin-Mitte . Built 1997–1999 based on a design by Hans Kollhoff.

In Berlin, among other things, Kollhoff designed buildings for Potsdamer Platz , where he designed the medium-sized high-rise ( Kollhoff Tower ) in the New York brick style on behalf of DaimlerChrysler AG . He was responsible for the master plan for Alexanderplatz (high-rise building). The renovation of the building on Werderschen Markt , formerly the Reichsbank and Central Committee of the SED, to the Foreign Office and the Leibniz colonnades in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district near Kurfürstendamm also contribute to its fame . In 2005 he designed the interior of the former Metropol Varieté , in which the "Goya" opened as an exclusive club on December 1st at Nollendorfplatz , which closed again the following year.

In Frankfurt am Main , he designed the 88-meter-high Main Plaza residential building in the Deutschherrnviertel . He won first prize in the architecture competition for the redesign of Frankfurt's old town quarter, Dom-Römer .

In Amsterdam , the Piraeus apartment block was built in the new residential area KNSM-eiland according to his plans . The building planned in 1990 can be read both as a differentiated large form and as a morphologically transformed block. Each of the four outer facades reacts with its own height profile and facade design to the urban and park-like surroundings. The large body is directed towards the water and light with the opening of the body towards the inner courtyard, which integrates an existing historical building. When it was completed in 1994, Hans Kollhoff publicly distanced himself from the building. The green spaces were designed by Mien Ruys .

In Chemnitz he designed the facade of the Red Tower Gallery, built in the center on Neumarkt .

Memberships

Kollhoff is President of the International Building Academy Berlin , the aim of which is to reconstruct Schinkel's Berlin Building Academy and to resurrect it as the “Berlin International Building Academy”.

Publications

Hans Kollhoff (Ed.): Gips - Baukunst des Schattens , Niggli 2005, ISBN 3-7212-0576-6
Hans Kollhoff (Ed.): Architectural theory Hans Kollhoff , Niggli 2004, ISBN 3-7212-0491-3
Hans Kollhoff (Ed.): Häuser , Niggli 2000, ISBN 3-7212-0465-4
Hans Kollhoff (Ed.): Wohnen , Niggli 1999, ISBN 3-7212-0464-6

literature

Ivan Nemec: Architektur / Architecture by Hans Kollhoff , Prestel publishing house 2002. ISBN 3-7913-2656-2
Jasper Cepl (ed.), Kollhoff & Timmermann Architects: Hans Kollhoff. Buildings and projects Niggli 2007, ISBN 3-7212-0543-X .
Fritz Neumeyer (ed.): Hans Kollhoff: The architectural argument, texts and interviews. gta-Verlag, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85676-272-8