Stefan Forster (architect)

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Stefan Forster

Stefan Forster (born January 20, 1958 in Rockenhausen ) is a German architect .

Life

Forster studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin from 1978 to 1984 . After graduating, he spent a DAAD- sponsored stay in Venice . Forster got his first job in 1986 in the Langhof office in Berlin . He then worked in the Kuhler office in Mannheim from 1986 to 1988 . Here he was involved in the construction of the State Museum for Technology and Labor in Mannheim.

From 1988 to 1993 Forster was assistant to Jürgen Bredow at the chair for housing construction at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He founded his own architecture office in Darmstadt in 1989. In 1995 the office moved to Frankfurt am Main . The focus of his work is on urban living.

Works (excerpt)

Eight city villas in Leinefelde-Süd, peeled out of a 180-meter-long slab building block (completed in 2004)
  • 1999–2007: Leinefelde prefabricated building conversions
  • 2005: Westgarten residential and commercial building, Frankfurt am Main, with Karl Richter
  • 2006: Voltastraße residential complex, Frankfurt am Main, with Karl Richter
  • 2008: City villas - living in the park, Mühlberg Frankfurt am Main
  • 2009: Campo passive house on Bornheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010: Conversion of slabs at Oleanderweg, Halle (Saale) as part of the 2010 International Building Exhibition
  • 2010: Transformation of an empty office building into a high-rise residential building "Lyonerstraße", Frankfurt am Main
  • 2010: Passive residential building at Hansaallee Westend, Frankfurt am Main
  • 2013: Living on Naxos, Frankfurt am Main
Living at the depot in Frankfurt-Bockenheim
  • 2015: Living at the depot, Frankfurt-Bockenheim
  • under construction: living at the harbor, Offenbach
  • 2017: Extension of the former Juridicum of the Goethe University , Gräfstrasse, Frankfurt am Main.

Awards (selection)

  • 2000: Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development
  • 2001/2003/2005/2007: German builder award "High quality affordable costs"
  • 2002: German Urban Development Award
  • 2004: European Urban Development Award
  • 2004: Federal German Architecture Prize for plaster
  • 2005: "Sir Robert Matthew Prize" for housing from the Union Internationale des Architectes
  • 2005: Innovation Prize of the Thuringian Housing Industry
  • 2006: Baukultur Prize, Thuringia
  • 2007: Future Living Architecture Prize
  • 2007: World Habitat Award
  • 2008: Special prize for CO 2 -optimized building, Ecola Award

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1996: Scale jump, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt 1996
  • 2006: Apartments for the City, Architekturgalerie Berlin 2006
  • 2006: Housing construction in Frankfurt, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt 2006
  • 2007: New architecture in Thuringia, Kulturhof Zum Güldenen Krönbacken, Erfurt 2007
  • 2007: Globalization 2.0, Museum for Communication, Frankfurt 2007
  • 2008: UPDATING GERMANY, Leinefelde city villas, German Architecture Museum Frankfurt 2008
  • 2008: 1st Moscow Architecture Biennale, Central House of the Artist Moscow 2008
  • 2009: Panel building transformations in Germany, St. Petersburg 2009

Publications (selection)

  • 1994: Based on Le Corbusier, DBZ, 05/94
  • 1998: Restraint and constancy, Lindenarcarde in Potsdam, Bausubstanz, 01/98
  • 2000: Radical conversion instead of demolition from the slab to the garden city, detail, 10/00
  • 2001: Sustainable urban redevelopment, exemplary projects, outline magazine for building culture, 01/01
  • 2002: DAB, 01/02
  • 2004: Urban living, four projects for the inner city, outline magazine for building culture, 5–6 / 04
  • 2005: Working on the plate, The Architect, 7–8 / 2005
  • 2006: The Simple Detail, Detail, 05/06
  • 2008: Urban redevelopment instead of redevelopment, points of contact No. 14, 11/2008
  • 2009: Passive house standard in today's apartment building, architecture in climate change - Hafencity IBA summer laboratory

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Forster, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockenhausen