Rena Wandel-Hoefer

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Rena Wandel-Hoefer (born September 10, 1959 in Saarbrücken ) is a German architect . Her architectural office Wandel Hoefer Lorch became internationally known with the design of the New Synagogue in Dresden and made a name for itself with other projects as a designer of Jewish sacred buildings and places of remembrance of the Holocaust . As a city ​​planner in Saarbrücken, Wandel-Hoefer performed various functions between 2001 and 2016.

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Rena Wandel-Hoefer studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1989 she received her doctorate under Günter Behnisch . In her dissertation she dealt with the architectural theory of the Austrian architect Richard Neutra .

From 1987 she worked as a freelance architect in her father's office, Hubertus Wandel . Together with Andrea Wandel , Andreas Hoefer and Wolfgang Lorch, she founded the Wandel Hoefer Lorch office in Saarbrücken in 1994 . The design of the New Synagogue in Dresden in collaboration with Nikolaus Hirsch, which was completed in 2001, brought "the Saarbrücken architects, who were hardly known until then, the highest international recognition". In 2001 the office won the competition for the design of the Jewish Center in Munich , whose synagogue was overseen by Rena Wandel-Hoefer and her husband, Andreas Hoefer. Under the title Material Zeit , the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich presented a representative cross-section of the office's projects for the first time in 2011 in the Pinakothek der Moderne . “As intensely as possibly no one else in architecture”, the office dealt with the question of how history can be recorded or continued spatially and structurally.

Rena Wandel-Hoefer was chairwoman of the urban planning council in Saarbrücken from 2001 to 2008. In 2007 she was appointed to the Academy of Arts in Berlin, section architecture. She is on the scientific advisory board of the Richard J. Neutra Society. From 2008 to 2016, she was independent as the building department of the city of Saarbrücken. In the course of this activity, she implemented a change block in 2012 , which pursued the goal of limiting the range of entertainment and catering establishments in the inner-city Nauwieser Viertel and spoke out against a shopping center for which a Wilhelminian-era building built by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden would be gutted should. The incumbent Red-Red-Green coalition rejected a second term in 2016 on the grounds that important construction projects had not progressed properly under their aegis. The decision was sharply criticized by the CDU opposition and, in return, Wandel-Hoefer's “excellent work” was highlighted.

She is part of the design and monument advisory board of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden , set up in 2013 , acted as chair of the jury for the German Urban Development Award 2014 and was a member of the jury of the first State Building Culture Award Baden-Württemberg 2016.

Buildings (selection)

Documentation and exhibition house Hinzert
Memorials

Awards with change Hoefer Lorch (selection)

  • 1998: Prize of the Association of German Architects, Berlin
  • 2001: German Critics' Prize in the architecture category
  • 2006: German Steel Construction Award, together with Schweitzer GmbH (Düsseldorf) as consulting engineers, for the documentation and meeting house of the Hinzert memorial
  • 2007: German Natural Stone Prize, recognition prize for the synagogue of the Israelite religious community in Munich
  • 2007: German Architecture Prize for the Hinzert Documentation House

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ In some projects the office acted as a joint venture with the Frankfurt architect Nikolaus Hirsch under the name Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch . In: ARD Kulturspiegel , broadcast on January 16, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Documentation of the first State Prize for Building Culture Baden-Württemberg 2016, Jury and Board of Trustees, p. 12. Ed. By the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Housing Baden-Württemberg (pdf for download)
  2. ↑ Biographical note in: der architekt , 5/2014, online October 22, 2014
  3. ^ Synagogue of Dresden , in: Rudolf Stegers: Design atals Sacral Buildings , Birkhäuser Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7643-8818-8 , p. 200
  4. ↑ a b Ira Mazzoni: A building out of fear and hope , from Die Zeit No. 46/2006, online November 9, 2006
  5. ^ Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich: Material time. Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch , December 9, 2010 - March 6, 2011, Pinakothek der Moderne
  6. ↑ Paul, Jochen: Material time. Wandel-Hoefer-Lorch - & - Hirsch-Werkschau , in: Bauwelt, 8/2011
  7. ^ ARD Kulturspiegel , broadcast on January 16, 2011, moderation: Oliver Hottong
  8. ^ Richard J. Neutra Gesellschaft, Board of Directors
  9. ^ Saarbrücken's building officer Rena Wandel-Hoefer and her ideas for the Ludwigspark , Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 27, 2016
  10. ↑ Other pubs are initially taboo , Markus Saeftel, Saarbrücker Zeitung, September 20, 2012
  11. ↑ Commerce instead of culture. In Saarbrücken a monument is to be sacrificed to a shopping center. Deutschlandfunk, April 19, 2006
  12. ↑ Red-Red-Green ends the term of office of Rena Wandel-Hoefer , Markus Saeftel, Saarbrücker Zeitung, January 1st, 2016
  13. ↑ Wiesbaden Design Advisory Board. The Architects Police , Frankfurter Rundschau, December 5, 2013. Praise for the design advisory board, FR, September 9, 2015 . Wiesbaden City Museum. Like a cool art gallery , FRI June 4, 2014
  14. ↑ Weltquartier and Hofstatt. German Urban Development Award 2014 , Baunetz, October 13, 2014
  15. ↑ Frank Maier-Solgk: The fourth dimension. SS Documentation Center Hinzert . 2005 change Hoefer Lorch and Hirsch ; Andrea Wandel, Rena Wandel-Hoefer, Andreas Hoefer, Wolfgang Lorch. In: ders .: New museums in Europe. Cult places for the 21st century , Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2006, ISBN 978-3-421-03669-8 , pp. 36–38
  16. ↑ Architecture of Remembrance. Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch receive Critics' Prize 2001 , Baunetz, April 17, 2001
  17. ↑ German Natural Stone Prize 2007
personal data
SURNAME Wandel-Hoefer, Rena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wandel, Rena (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken