Thomas Sieverts

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Thomas Sieverts (born June 8, 1934 in Hamburg ) is a German architect and urban planner .

Life

After graduating from high school, Sieverts studied architecture and urban planning in Stuttgart , Liverpool and Berlin . After successfully completing his studies in 1962, Sieverts worked for two years as an employee at the Technical University of Berlin . After this time he founded the Free Planning Group Berlin (FPB) together with his fellow students Egbert Kossak and Herbert Zimmermann in 1965/66 . From 1967 Sieverts taught architecture and urban planning at the Berlin University of Fine Arts , Harvard University and the Technical University of Darmstadt . In 1978 Sieverts founded his own planning office, which was expanded in 2000 and renamed SKAT Architects + Urban Planners. In 1995 Sieverts worked as a research scholar at the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin, where he coined the term Zwischenstadt . In the same year he was also presented with the German Urban Development Award, and in 2003 he was recognized by the Association of German Architects (BDA) for his commitment to the overall project of the Bochum West Park. Since 2006 he has been the curator of the Carl Richard Montag Foundation . In 2007 Sieverts became a member of the architecture section of the Berlin Academy of the Arts . In 2010, the Technical University of Braunschweig awarded him an honorary doctorate (Dr.-Ing. E. h.).

On November 4, 2013 - the 144th birthday of Fritz Schumacher - Thomas Sieverts was awarded the Fritz Schumacher Prize of the Hamburg Senate in the ballroom of the Hamburg City Hall . The award, which has been awarded to architects and urban planners by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg every three years since 2007, honors Sieverts' achievements in the field of urban development and at the same time reminds of Fritz Schumacher's outstanding importance for building culture and urban development.

Sieverts lives and works in Munich.

Projects

Thomas Sieverts was significantly involved in the following projects:

Fonts

  • Thomas Sieverts: “The principle of monument preservation and its expansion in the Anthropocene” in: Forum Stadt. Quarterly magazine for urban history, urban sociology, monument preservation and urban development , volume 43, issue 2/2016, pp. 136–145. ISSN 2192-8924
  • Thomas Sieverts, Michael Koch, Ursula Stein, Michael Steinbusch: Zwischenstadt - meanwhile a city? Discover, understand, change. Müller and Busmann, Wuppertal, 2005. ISBN 3-928766-72-4
  • Lars Bölling, Thomas Sieverts (ed.): Mitten am Rand. On the way from the suburbs via the Zwischenstadt to the regional urban landscape. Müller and Busmann, Wuppertal, 2004. ISBN 3-928766-59-7
  • Thomas Sieverts: "Urbanity and Zwischenstadt", in: Research Group Bodenseestadt (Ed.): Vision Bodenseestadt. Urban development research between utopia and feasibility study. VDG, Weimar 2003, pp. 138–149. ISBN 3-89739-355-7
  • Thomas Sieverts: "Fifty Years of Urban Development. Reflection and Practice", Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-89850-034-9 .
  • “Zwischenstadt, zum Stand der Dinge”, in: archithese , special issue, November 2000, pp. 6–11
  • Thomas Sieverts: “The urbanized landscape - the landscaped city. Towards a new relationship between city and nature. ”In: Wolkenkuckucksheim , 4th year, issue 2/99.
  • Thomas Sieverts: Zwischenstadt. Between place and world, space and time, city and country. Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1997. ISBN 3-528-06118-9

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  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www. Zwischenstadt.net
  2. ↑ Thomas Sieverts. In: arch INFORM .
  3. ↑ http://www.tu-braunschweig.de/suchoptions/haben/hc
  4. ↑ Press release of the Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and the Environment , accessed on November 4, 2013
  5. ↑ https://www.byak.de/architektenkammer/presse/pressemitteilungen-2019.html
  6. ↑ http://www.sadk.de/sieverts.html

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personal data
SURNAME Sieverts, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg