Jan Knippers

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Jan Knippers (* 1962 in Düsseldorf ) is a German civil engineer and professor at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Jan Knippers studied structural engineering from 1983 to 1989 and obtained his doctorate in 1992 at the TU Berlin . In the following years he worked as a project engineer for Schlaich Bergermann Partner until he took over the institute management for supporting structure and structural design (itke) at the University of Stuttgart in 2000. In 2001 he co-founded “Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering” with branches in Stuttgart, Berlin and New York and co-managed it for many years. His key projects from this time are the Expo 2010 Axis in Shanghai , the Thematic Pavilion of the Expo 2012 in Yeosu , South Korea , and most recently the gallery of the State Opera in Berlin, completed in 2017. Since 2018 he has been heading “Jan Knippers Engineers” in Stuttgart. The most important projects are the two pavilions for the Federal Garden Show 2019 in Heilbronn and the Urbach Landmark for the State Garden Show Remstal 2019.

From 2014 to 2019 Jan Knippers was spokesman for the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR 141 “Biological Design and Integrative Structures” at the Universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen and Freiburg. Since 2019 he has been Vice Rector for Research at the University of Stuttgart and Deputy Spokesman for the DFG Cluster of Excellence 'Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture'.

Fonts (selection)

  • Jan Knippers: Johann Wilhelm Schwedler. From experiment to calculation. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung of March 21, 2000 (online as pdf with 258 kB)
  • Jan Knippers, Jan Cremers, Markus Gabler, Julian Lienhard: Atlas Kunststoffe + Membranen: materials and semi-finished products, form finding and construction. Edition detail. 2010
  • Jan Knippers: From the construction of the building to the design of the processes. In: Detail 10/2012, pp. 1142–1148
  • Jan Knippers: From Model Thinking to Process Design . AD Architectural Design 02/2013, pp 74-8
  • Jan Knippers, Thomas Speck: Design and construction principles in nature and architecture . Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Volume 7, 2012
  • Jan Knippers, Achim Menges: Fibers rethought - on the way to a construction language. In: Detail 12/15, pp. 1238-1242
  • Jan Knippers: The Limits of Simulation: Towards a New Culture of Architectural Engineering . In: Technology, Architecture + Design, Volume 1, 2017, Issue 2, pp. 155–162
  • Jan Knippers, Ulrich Schmid, Thomas Speck (eds.): Bionic building - learning from nature . Birkhäuser Basel 2019 (also published in English: Biomimetics for Architecture )

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personal data
SURNAME Knippers, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf