Matthias Sauerbruch

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GSW high-rise Berlin, 1999
Federal Environment Agency in Dessau, 2005
West Arcade in Frankfurt, 2006
Brandhorst Museum in Munich, 2009
ADAC high-rise in Munich, 2012

Matthias Sauerbruch (born February 4, 1955 in Konstanz ) is a German architect , urban planner and university professor.

biography

education and profession

Matthias Sauerbruch is the son of the painter Hans Sauerbruch (1910–1996) and grandson of the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch . He studied at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. From 1984 to 1988 he was a partner in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture - OMA in London , founded in 1975 by Ilias Zengelis and Rem Koolhaas .

Office and university professor

Matthias Sauerbruch founded in 1989 together with Louisa Hutton office for architecture, urbanism and design Sauerbruch Hutton in London. The office has been based in Berlin since 1992 . The GSW high-rise in Berlin-Kreuzberg was the first large-scale construction project in the 1990s. In 2016, around 95 employees worked for Sauerbruch Hutton.

From 1995 to 2001 Matthias Sauerbruch was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin . He then taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 2001 to 2007 . In 2005 Matthias Sauerbruch was visiting professor at the University of Virginia . 2007-2010 he was, together with Louisa Hutton , visiting professor at Harvard University ( Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)) in Cambridge . In 2013 Sauerbruch was the curator of the culture: city exhibition for the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Kunsthaus Graz . From 2012 to 2014 Sauerbruch was visiting professor at the University of the Arts, Berlin.

Memberships

Sauerbruch is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and one of the founding members of the German Sustainable Building Council, which was founded in 2007 . He is a permanent member of the jury at the Villa Massimo of the Deutsche Akademie Rome , a fellow at the Institute for Urban Design in New York City . Since 2013 he has been an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects AIA, since 2011 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and a member of the Zurich Building Council . He has been a member of the Munich Urban Design Commission since 2016.

Works

Selection; Otherwise see Sauerbruch Hutton

honors and awards

selection

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2013 Honorary FAIA Announcement. American Institute of Architects, accessed March 7, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Gottfried Semper Architecture Prize 2013 to Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch. sadk.de, accessed on October 28, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Sauerbruch, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Constancy