Kunibert Wachten

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Kunibert Wachten (born October 16, 1952 ) is a German architect and city ​​planner .

Life

Since 1999 he has held the chair and institute for urban and regional planning at RWTH Aachen University , before that he was professor for urban planning at the FH Bochum and from 1994 to 1999 professor for urban and spatial planning at the faculty for spatial planning and architecture at TU Vienna .

Wachten studied architecture in Aachen and from 1980 onwards, together with Peter Zlonicky and Othmar Ebert, was a partner in the Zlonicky Wachten Ebert urban planning office in Dortmund . He was a co-founder of the Faltin Scheuvens Wachten office, since 2003 he has been managing the scheuvens + wachten office in Dortmund together with Rudolf Scheuvens.

In 1995 he became German commissioner for the 1996 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Wachten became known to a broader public primarily through his reports on behalf of UNESCO on the endangerment of German world cultural heritage sites in Cologne and Dresden . In 2005 he examined the compatibility of planned new high-rise buildings in Cologne-Deutz with the Cologne Cathedral on the other side of the Rhine . In 2006 he carried out a comparable study on the influence of the planned Waldschlößchenbrücke on the Dresden Elbe Valley, which is classified as a world cultural heritage . In it, he credited the planned bridge significant impairments to the landscape in the entire cultural landscape scoring World Heritage Elbe Valley. In mid-2009, the Elbe Valley was stripped of its World Heritage title.

Wachten is the author of the urban design for the conversion of the Clouth site in Cologne-Nippes .

Wachten has been a member of the design advisory board of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau since April 2020 .

Wachten is married and has one daughter.

Publications (selection)

  • with Klaus Semsroth: The neglected living space. The questionable future of city squares in Europe. In: the scales. Magazine of Grünenthal GmbH, Aachen. Volume 36, 1997, No. 1, pp. 8-14.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our authors. In: the scales. Grünenthal GmbH magazine , 36, 1997, 1, p. 45 ( Kunibert Wachten )
  2. ^ Jakob Schmalöer: New members in the Freiburg design advisory board, press release of the Foundation for Building and Cultural Heritage of March 1, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Watch out, Kunibert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1952