Roland Burgard

Roland Burgard (born November 8, 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German architect , urban planner , construction officer and university professor .

education

After graduating from the Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium Ludwigsburg in 1962, Burgard studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe , where he passed his main diploma examination in 1971. He gained his first professional experience as a freelancer in the project group Urban Planning Karlsruhe (1971–1977) and as an employee and project manager at the independent architects Rossmann und Partner in Karlsruhe (1971–1973). In 1973 Burgard began his preparatory period for the higher civil engineering administration service in Baden-Württemberg , which he completed in 1975 with the so-called Great State Examination (2nd state examination ).

Professional career

After the state examination in 1975, Burgard worked for a few months as a technical clerk at the Karlsruhe University Building Authority and supervised the new university buildings for inorganic chemistry. As early as 1975 he moved to the State Building Department Freiburg im Breisgau as head of department , from there it took him in 1977 to the Building Department of the City of Frankfurt am Main , where he resigned as Head of Department (1990–1998) of the Building Department in September 1998. Most recently, he was responsible for the entire municipal building construction and telecommunications infrastructure in Frankfurt. With his focus on museum buildings on the so-called Frankfurt Museum Embankment , Burgard became known in professional circles around the world.

Teaching

From 1991 to 1992 Burgard held a teaching position for "ecological design" in the architecture department at the Bergische Universität - Wuppertal University . Also from 1991 he was an examiner in the higher examination office for the higher civil engineering administration service in Frankfurt am Main. Since the winter semester of 1998/1999 he was a full professor at the Institute for Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , where he was also head of the department for expansion and construction management .

Architecture awards (selection)

Burgard received a number of architecture awards:

• 1980 for a residential group in Karlsruhe,
• 1996 the timber construction price of the state of Hessen for school buildings in Frankfurt-Sossenheim, -Höchst and -Sachsenhausen,
• 1998 the award of good buildings for the youth center Frankfurt-Rödelheim.

Fonts (selection)

• (together with Karin Nieswandt): Museum for Prehistory and Early History Frankfurt am Main. (Ed. by the City Council of Frankfurt am Main, Construction Department, Building Construction Office) Frankfurt am Main 1989.
• Individuality and series, building culture and plastics. Results of a competition between students from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, the Technical University of Munich and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Frankfurt am Main 2002.
• Plastics and free forms. A work book. Springer-Verlag, Vienna / New York 2004, ISBN 978-3-211-21077-2 .
• The Museumsufer Frankfurt. Architects and Buildings. Birkhauser, Basel et al. undated, ISBN 978-3-0356-1881-5 .