Manfred Koob

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Prof. Manfred Koob

Manfred Koob (born November 6, 1949 in Heppenheim ; † May 5, 2011 in Heidelberg ) was a German architect and university professor . As a pioneer of virtual architecture, he was best known for the virtual reconstruction of the Cluny Abbey and the destroyed German synagogues.

Life

Manfred Koob grew up in Heppenheim on Bergstrasse . He studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt , among others with Günter Behnisch . Since 1982 he worked with the help of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and was involved in the development of software for the architects. From 1992 he taught as a visiting professor at the Chair of CAD in Architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1995 he was appointed full professorto the Technical University of Darmstadt. Until his death he headed the chair, which was later renamed “Information and Communication Technology in Architecture”, which gained international recognition in the field of computer-aided 3-D reconstruction of destroyed or never realized architecture. Together with Marc Grellert, his long-time research assistant, he founded Architectura Virtualis GmbH as a cooperation partner of the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Services

Manfred Koob saw in digital 3-D reconstruction and computer-aided visualization a "world language that is understood regardless of culture, education and age of people". He presented his visions for a virtual museum of architecture in his work Architectura Virtualis, Concept for the 1st Digital Architecture Museum in 1995. In his work in research and teaching he was responsible for a number of significant digital 3-D reconstructions, which were honored with exhibitions in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn. His use of new media in architecture and their communication was very diverse and extended to visionary projects such as the Digital Virtual Olympic Museum for the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and the hybrid exhibit models, which he as scientific director of Architectura Virtualis GmbH within several exhibitions used successfully. During his work , his research assistants Stephen Wittkopf (2001), Marc Grellert (2006), Piotr Kuroczyński (2010) and Mieke Pfarr-Harfst (2010) did their doctorate.

Works

The website of the former Chair of Information and Communication Technology in Architecture and the websites of Architectura Virtualis GmbH provide an overview of the projects .

Fonts

  • with Horst Cramer (Ed.): Cluny. Architecture as a vision. Edition Braus, 1993.
  • Architectura Virtualis. Concept for the 1st digital architecture museum. A place of science for research and documentation of the art of structural engineering in the third cultural world memory. Bensheim 1995.
  • with Johann Eisele, Walter Schoeller (Ed.): Bauhaus. Avant-garde of the 20s. Architecture as a vision. Ed. Braus, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 978-3-89466-102-1 .
  • with Marc Grellert, Agnieszka Lulinska (Ed.): Synagogues in Germany. A virtual reconstruction. (Exhibition of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Department of CAD in Architecture, Manfred Koob and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn) Birkhäuser Verlag für Architektur, Basel eta l. 2004, ISBN 978-3-76437034-3 .
  • Manfred Koob: Mind's Eye. Digital Virtual Olympic Museum. Prestel Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-79134190-3 .

Web links

Commons : Manfred Koob  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.juedisches-europa.net/archiv/2007/
  2. ↑ http://www.architectura-virtualis.de/
  3. ↑ http://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/2000/article204260029/Wie-Ruinen-auferstehen.html
  4. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/synagogen-in-deutschland-eine-virtuelle-re Konstruktions.680.de.html?dram:article_id= 30099
  5. ↑ http://www.dg.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de/dg/forschung_dg/digitale_re Konstruktionen/ projekte.de.jsp
  6. ↑ http://www.architectura-virtualis.de/projekte/index.php?lang=de
personal data
SURNAME Koob, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Heppenheim
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2011
Place of death Heidelberg