Klaus Theo Brenner

Klaus Theo Brenner (* 1950 in Fellbach near Stuttgart ) is a German architect based in Berlin with strong ties to Milanese modernism .

Life

Brenner studied at the Technical University of Berlin . He gained his first professional experience in the mid-1970s with the internationally renowned Berlin architect Josef Paul Kleihues . His attitude, manifested in the International Building Exhibition in Berlin in 1984/87, that the urban layout is the memory of the cities, influenced and shaped Brenner. To round off his training, he then worked for the Italian star architect Vittorio Gregotti in Milan . In addition to several visiting professorships in Genoa and Milan, Brenner received a call to the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences in 1996 , where he co-founded the Potsdam School of Architecture.

Act

Due to the urban and architectural formative experiences in Berlin and Milan, Brenner always takes into account the position and effect of his buildings in the urban context. The beauty and viability of European cities is at the center of his architectural thinking. He has also dealt with it theoretically and historically and has backed up his views in several book publications, including on the urban row house , the urban residential palace or Die Gute Stadt , underpinned with many examples.

Important projects

After an initial partnership with the Berlin architect Benedict Tonon in the 1980s, Klaus Theo Brenner founded his own Berlin office called Klaus Theo Brenner STADTARCHITEKTUR after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1992 . In addition to an office building on Friedrichstrasse and a hotel on Leipziger Strasse from the 1990s, the master plan and construction work for the Rummelsburger Bucht are among the outstanding projects. The project was awarded the German Urban Development Prize in 2009. The project Konstanz Herosé - Stadt am Seerhein in Konstanz received the Hugo Häring Award in 2011 . A large urban ensemble was created with the St. Leonhards Garden in Braunschweig . In 2013 the office worked on the Berlin city extensions Gartenstadt Karlshorst , Wasserstadt Spindlersfeld as well as on the townhouses on Kurfürstenstrasse and on Schlachtensee Carée .

Buildings and master plans (selection)

• 1987: Rauchstrasse, Berlin - House 4, in partnership with B. Tonon
• 1987: Graf-Spee-Brücke, Berlin, in partnership with B. Tonon
• 1989: Fuhlsbüttler Strasse residential and commercial building , Hamburg , in partnership with B. Tonon (German Architecture Prize, Building of the Year in Hamburg)
• 1995: Hypo-Bank, Schönebeck (Elbe) (Architecture Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, building in existing structures)
• 1995–2012: Rummelsburger Bucht (German Urban Development Prize 2008)
• 1997: Kontorhaus Mitte, Block 109, Friedrichstrasse , Berlin
• 1998: United Nations Square , Berlin (Builder Award for High Quality at Low Cost 1998)
• 2000: Astron Hotel, Block 108, Leipziger Strasse , Berlin-Mitte
• 2000: Am Petersberg forest settlement, Berlin-Zehlendorf
• 2000: Alt-Stralau, living by the water, Rummelsburger Bucht, Berlin
• 2001: New construction of a sports hall and extension of the listed Heinrich-Schliemann-Oberschule in Berlin
• 2003: Master plan "Herosé - City on the Seerhein" in Constance
• 2005: Master plan “Schinkelplatz” in Berlin
• 2005: Master plan “Diplomatic Park” in Berlin
• 2006: House Dahm-Courths in Berlin (nomination for the German Brick Prize 2008)
• 2006/2007: Konstanz Herosé, Block 1 + 2 (Hugo Häring Award 2011)
• 2007/2012: Master plan St. Leonhards Garden in Braunschweig (award federal competition sustainability and building culture 2012)
• 2008/2011: Casa de Sole, Diplomatic Park Berlin
• 2008/2010: Konstanz Herosé, Block 3 + 4 (Hugo Häring Award 2011)
• 2010: House Waidmann 1 + 2, St. Leonhards Garden Braunschweig
• 2011: North gate and town house, St. Leonhards Garden Braunschweig
• 2012/2013: At the Alte Kelter, Fellbach
• 2012–2015: Gartenstadt Karlshorst, Berlin-Karlshorst
• 2012–2015: Wasserstadt Spindlersfeld, Berlin-Köpenick
• 2012: Königsquartier in Berlin-Zehlendorf
• 2013: Quartier Paulinum in Berlin-Zehlendorf
• 2013: Quartier Kirchblick in Berlin-Zehlendorf

Fonts

Books

• Architettura della Metropoli, six public buildings for Milan, exhibition catalog, Idea-Books Milano 1990 (ed.)
• School expansion Kurfürstenstraße - discursive preliminary planning as an alternative procedural model, urban planning and architecture, report 15, Berlin 1992
• Urban planning - Klaus Theo Brenner - Rummelsburger Bucht, Aedes 1993
• KT Brenner, Stadttheater, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1994
• KT Brenner, the radical project of modern architecture, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1995
• KT Brenner, Heterotope, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1995
• KT Brenner, Bau-Körper, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1997
• The urban residential palace, urban development and architecture, issue 40, 1999
• LBS - town house - home in the center, LBS study
• KT Brenner / Helmut Geisert, The urban row house, Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 2004
• Berlin - Genova, Jovis Verlag 2005
• KT Brenner, villas and country houses - architectural designs, Jovis Verlag 2006
• KT Brenner, "the good city", Gebr. Mann Verlag 2009
• KT Brenner, "the beautiful city", Jovis Verlag 2010
• KT Brenner (Ed.) "Berlin Rationalists - razionalisti berlinesi", AION Edizioni 2010
• KT Brenner, "Platz und Haus", Wasmuth Verlag 2011
• KT Brenner, "Berliner Stadtprojekte", Jovis Verlag 2012
• KT Brenner, "Stadtraum - Spazio Urbano - Urban Space", Wasmuth-Verlag 2013
• KT Brenner, "Timeless City Architecture", Wasmuth Verlag 2015

College publications

• KT Brenner, urban space 1, urban space 2, urban space 3 - urban design theory, University of the Arts, Berlin 1986
• KT Brenner, Corso die Composizione, Quaderni del Dip. di Progettazione, Politecnico Milano, 1989
• KT Brenner, Potsdam Trilogy, FH Potsdam 1997
• KT Brenner, Potsdam - City by the water, a master plan, Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1997
• KT Brenner, In Search of the Image of the City, Master Plans for Brandenburg, FH Potsdam 1998
• KT Brenner, city center Potsdam, FH Potsdam 1999
• KT Brenner, Idealstadt - Rasterstadt, FH Potsdam 2000
• KT Brenner, Am Großer Horn, FH Potsdam 2001
• KT Brenner, the block, FH Potsdam 2004
• KT Brenner, Health Center Potsdam, FH Potsdam 2005
• KT Brenner, City Labyrinth, FH Potsdam 2007
• KT Brenner, typology of museum architecture, ideas for expanding the Bodemuseum, SMB and FHP, 2010
• KT Brenner, Turmstadt, FH Potsdam 2011
• KT Brenner, The Beautiful City - Stuttgart Block, FH Potsdam 2012

Newspaper articles

• Un imagine irritante, la Hypo Bank a Schönebeck, domus 1996
• La "strada ideal" di Brenner - Genova modello mondiale , in: La Repubblica , January 14, 2005
• RALF SCHÖNBALL: A neighborhood in front, a garden in the back . In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 23, 2005 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
• Hanno Rauterberg : New home city . In: Die Zeit No. 34 . August 18, 2005 ( zeit.de ).
• New Dutch Quarter in Lustgarten - Potsdam-Mitte 2020 , in: Potsdamer Latest News , March 4, 2006
• “Like cows on a green meadow” , Interview in: Potsdamer Latest News , January 16, 2010
• “Hofgärten residential project shapes the city skyline on the Seerhein”, Konstanz , in: Immobilien Zeitung , October 21, 2010
• New living in the center (Fellbach) , in: Immobilien Zeitung , May 12, 2011
• “Built close to the water” (“Wasserstadt Spindlersfeld”) , in: Der Tagesspiegel , November 6, 2011
• Citta sul Reno, Herosé Konstanz, AION 19/2012
• TONG-JIN SMITH: Karlshorst: hangars to living space . In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 14, 2012 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
• “The whole thing is a single mess” , interview in Potsdamer Latest News , April 15, 2013

Web links

• Klaus Theo Brenner. In: arch INFORM .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International Building Exhibition Berlin 1987, Frankfurt 1986, p. 9 ff.
2. ↑ see: KT Brenner, Berlin - Genova, 2005
3. ↑ See: KT Brenner, Primo anno, primo incontro in: Quaderni del Dipartimento di Progettazione , Politecnico di Milano 1989
4. ↑ Interview in: Berliner Morgenpost online , October 13, 2012 (accessed April 6, 2013)
5. ↑ Klaus Theo Brenner ( Memento of the original from December 12, 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. In: Idea of ​​the City. Concepts of a rationalist architecture , website of the Cologne Congress September 2008 
6. ↑ German Urban Development Award 2008 In: BauNetz .de
7. ^ Hugo Häring Award 2011 BDA Kreisgruppe Bodensee… 80818 - competitionline
8. ↑ See also: Ex-KGB site becomes garden city . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 20, 2012