Peter Kulka
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
- 1970–1976: Bielefeld University
- 1978–1983: Maternushaus in Cologne
- 1984–1987: Redesign and expansion of Königsmünster Abbey
- TÜV Academy Rhineland in Cologne
- 1991–1997: Buildings for Siemens AG in Düsseldorf
- 1991–1997: Saxon State Parliament in Dresden (redesign and expansion of the old wing, new plenary hall)
- 1997: EL-DE house in Cologne (redesign of the NS Documentation Center )
- 1994–1997: Multihalle ( multifunctional hall for sport and culture ) in Meiningen
- 1994–1998: Hollerborn / Kleinfeldchen residential development in Wiesbaden
- 1994–1999: Faculty building for economics at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg
- 1994–1999: Gallery for Contemporary Art in Leipzig
- 1996–1999: Extension for the German Horticultural Museum in Erfurt
- 2000–2002: City-Hochhaus Leipzig (redesign)
- 2000–2002: MDR cube
- 2000–2013: S-Bahn station Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof (integration of the old station into the city tunnel )
- 2001: Housing complex in Wiesbaden
- 2002–2004: Redesign and expansion of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden
- 2001: House of Silence at Königsmünster Abbey in Meschede (with Konstantin Pilcher)
- 2004–2019: Residenzschloss Dresden , reconstruction of the east wing, a. a. Foyer, roofing of the small castle courtyard
- 2004–2007: Main fire station of the Heidelberg fire brigade (new building as passive house )
- 2004: Heidehof House of the Robert Bosch Foundation on the property of the Robert Bosch House
- 2007–2009: Centrum-Galerie in Dresden (new building based on the honeycomb aluminum facade of the previous building)
- 2009–2010: Extension for the Leopold Hoesch Museum in Düren
- 2014: New state parliament building in Potsdam when the baroque city palace facade was rebuilt by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff
- 2015–2018: Reconstruction of the Senckenberg Nature Museum
- until probably 2025: Lingner Altstadtgarten Dresden
Awards and honors
- 1996: Heinrich Tessenow Medal
- 1998: Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development for the multifunctional hall for sport and culture in Meiningen
- 2004: North Rhine-Westphalian Architecture Prize for the House of Silence , a guest house of the Königsmünster Abbey
- 2005: Prize from the Bible and Culture Foundation
- 2006: Honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Dresden
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
- Literature by and about Peter Kulka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Peter Kulka office
- Peter Kulka at the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- Vita at the Saxon Academy of the Arts
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ).
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ Foundation Bible and Culture - Awards. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Honorary doctoral students of the TH / TU Dresden. University archive of the Technical University of Dresden , accessed on September 15, 2019 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kulka, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |