Ursula Schneider (architect)

Ursula Schneider (born September 3, 1961 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian architect . She is co-founder and managing director of the architectural office pos architects.

Life

Ursula Schneider studied architecture at the Vienna University of Technology , at the North Carolina State University , Raleigh, NC and in Geneva with Jean Nouvel , Aldo van Eyck and Herman Hertzberger .

Schneider founded an architecture office with Claire Poutaraud and Fritz Oettl in 2000, and has been its managing director since 2001. Her focus is on ecological and climate-sensitive architecture with the topics of passive houses , daylight architecture , energy-plus standards , CO ₂ -neutral building, cradle to cradle , circularity, user comfort and greening of buildings.

Ursula Schneider teaches at the Vienna University of Technology, the Danube University Krems as well as at the FH Campus and FH Technikum Wien . She was involved in the development of the "Green Building" course on the FH campus .

She is a member of the steering committee of the Austrian Society for Sustainable Building (ÖGNB) and from 2015–2017 a member of the quality advisory board for subsidized housing in the Province of Upper Austria.

Chamber functions

• Chair of the Sustainability Committee of the Federal Chamber of Civil Engineers
• Federal Chamber nominee for the Architects Council of Europe, area "Environment and Sustainable Architecture"

Awards

Together with her partner Fritz Oettl, Ursula Schneider was voted Austrian of the Year 2011 in the “Creative Industries” category. Furthermore, she and her office pos architects won a number of architecture prizes, including: Green Building Award for Highest Innovation, Austrian Solar Prize, European Environmental Press Award, Environment Prize of the City of Vienna, Energy Globe , Bavarian Home Prize for Architecture

Web links

• POS architecture
• Profile at nextroom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Austria'11: The winners , the press .