Thomas van den Valentyn

Thomas Eduard van den Valentyn (* 1945 in Münchehof ) is a German architect .

Life

Thomas van den Valentyn completed his architecture studies at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf and in Vienna with Professor Hans Hollein , which he graduated with a diploma in 1972. From 2000 to 2001 he was visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and from 2004 to 2005 and 2006 to 2007 he was a guest critic at RWTH Aachen University . He is a member of the Association of German Architects and the North Rhine-Westphalia Chamber of Architects . Van den Valentyn lives and works in Cologne .

Create

The chamber music hall of the Beethoven House in Bonn was one of Thomas van den Valentyn's first buildings . In addition to a variety of other projects, he was the architect responsible for the Music High School Schloss Belvedere in Weimar and the restoration of the Reichstag President's Palace in Berlin , together with Gernot Schulz , the Law Faculty in Halle and the conference building of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Berlin . He was also responsible for the design of the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl with Seyed Mohammad Oreyzi .

gallery

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  Chamber music hall of the Beethoven House , Bonn

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  Musikgymnasium Schloss Belvedere , Weimar

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  Office building RheinAtrium, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 11, Cologne

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  Institute of the German Economy , Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 21, Cologne

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  Max Ernst Museum , Brühl

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  Gronau, Office Port Bonn

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  Cologne, Sachsenring 83-85 , "Horbach House" (1994)

Awards and prizes (selection)

• 1975 Award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for architecture
• 1975, 1990, 1996 Cologne Architecture Prize
• 1983 German Architecture Prize (in Hans Hollein's office )
• 1990 German Designer Prize
• 1991 Architecture Prize NRW
• 1995 Cologne Culture Prize
• 1996 Thuringian State Prize for Architecture and Urban Development (with S. Mohammed Oreyzi, Cologne)
• 1997 German Critics' Prize for Architecture
• 2005 Light Architecture Prize
• 2007 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

• Thomas van den Valentyn, Heinrich Wefing: Van den Valentyn. Architecture 1972-2002 , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-88375-375-0
• Andreas Rossmann , Michael Eldred: Max Ernst Museum: Van den Valentyn - Architektur , Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-88375-949-X

Web links

Commons : Thomas van den Valentyn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• van den Valentyn - architecture
• Literature by and about Thomas van den Valentyn in the catalog of the German National Library