Peter Kulka

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Peter Kulka (born July 20, 1937 in Dresden ) is a contemporary German architect and university professor.

Life

Peter Kulka completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and then trained as an engineer specializing in architecture at the building trade schools in Görlitz and Gotha. He then studied architecture from 1959 to 1964 at the University of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin-Weißensee . “His teacher and mentor there was Selman Selmanagic , a staunch Bauhaus member who knew how to set the course for Peter Kulka early, but only later. After a brief guest performance with Hermann Henselmann at the German Building Academy in East Berlin ... “(quote from Peter Rumpf in baunetz_plus_12) Kulka fled the German Democratic Republic in 1965 .

Before he started working as a freelance architect in 1969, he worked for three years in Hans Scharoun's architectural office in Berlin. He has been running his office in Cologne since 1979 . In 1980 Peter Kulka joined forces with Hans Schilling for a few years ; since then he has also been involved in the restoration and expansion of sacred buildings . From 1986 to 1992 he worked as a professor for constructive design at RWTH Aachen University.

After German reunification, Peter Kulka returned to Dresden and set up a second office in the city. He has been a member of the city's art commission in Dresden since 1995 and on February 29, 1996 was one of the 30 founding members of the Saxon Academy of the Arts and in the architecture class . In the same year he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

In 2010 Peter Kulka was accepted into the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

buildings

The plenary hall of the Saxon State Parliament, June 2006
Guard of the Heidelberg professional fire brigade
MDR cube in Leipzig

Awards and honors

literature

  • Nadine Haepke: Sacred productions in contemporary architecture. John Pawson - Peter Kulka - Peter Zumthor. transcript, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-8376-2535-6
  • Construction concept and detail. Benedictine Abbey Königsmünster and Catholic Church St. Marien in Hamm. in: Archplus No. 87/1986
  • Chemnitz Stadium 2002 . in: Archplus No. 131/1996
  • Transparency or mass AIT script 2 . AIT Discourse Intelligent Architecture 1997
  • Saxon State Parliament , in: Architekturjahrbuch, Deutsches Architekturmuseum , Frankfurt 1993
  • Saxon State Parliament , in: Bauwelt No. 3/1994
  • Saxon State Parliament , in: CENTRUM. Yearbook for Architecture and the City 1994
  • Minimalism and Sensuality , Edition Axel Menges 2006, ISBN 3-932565-48-7 - Catalog for the exhibition in the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt / Main 2005/2006 and in the German Hygiene Museum Dresden 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Creating unity through opposites: Peter Kulka's extension completes the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 31, 2009, p. 36 ( online for a fee ).
  2. ^ Rainer Schulze: Reconstruction of the Senckenberg Museum: "A wet dream for preservationists". In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Rhein-Main. January 27, 2014, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Sebastian Burkhardt: Quarter for the future - Robotron gives way to the "Lingen old town garden". In: Dresdner Latest News . September 7, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016 .
  4. ^ Foundation Bible and Culture - Awards. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. University archive of the Technical University of Dresden , accessed on September 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kulka, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden