Volker Staab

Volker Staab 2018

New Museum Nuremberg (2004)

Georg Schäfer Museum, Schweinfurt (2000)

Staircase hall in the Georg Schäfer Museum

The Ahrenshoop Art Museum (2013)

LWL Museum for Art and Culture Münster (2014)

Visualization of the Deutsches Museum in Nuremberg

Volker Staab (born December 25, 1957 in Heidelberg ) is a German architect.

Life

Volker Staab studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1977 to 1983 (graduate architect ETH). From 1985 to 1990 he worked as a freelancer in the Bangert , Jansen , Scholz and Schultes office in Berlin. In the same year he worked on the design for the Kunstmuseum Bonn .

He has been a freelance architect since 1990. In 1991 he founded the architectural office Volker Staab. He has been working in partnership with Alfred Nieuwenhuizen since 1996, with Staab Architekten GmbH since 2007 .

In 2002 Staab took on a visiting professorship at the Technical University of Berlin . In the same year he received a teaching position at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg . In 2005 he became a visiting professor at the Münster University of Applied Sciences , where he taught until 2007. Since 2008, Staab has held the chair for architecture / public spaces and buildings at the ABK Stuttgart . Since 2012 he has held the professorship for design and spatial composition at the TU Braunschweig .

He is a member of the Association of German Architects BDA (since 1997), a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin (since 2005) and the advisory board of the Federal Foundation for Building Culture in Potsdam.

Works (selection)

• Expansion of the Maximilianeum in Munich, 1992–1994
• New Museum Nuremberg , 1996–1999
• Georg Schäfer Museum , in Schweinfurt , 1998–2000
• Central depot in the Albertinum Dresden , 2004–2010
• Gunzenhauser Museum , Chemnitz, until 2007
• Augustinerhof , Nuremberg, from 2008
• Expansion of the textile publisher NYA Nordiska , Dannenberg, 2008–2010
• Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe , visitor center Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe , until 2011
• Neue Galerie , Kassel, until 2011
• Nano-Bioanalytik-Zentrum NBZ, Münster, 2013.
• Ahrenshoop Art Museum , Ahrenshoop , 2013.
• LWL Museum for Art and Culture , Münster , 2014.
• University of Potsdam , information, communication and media center Golm
• Ministry of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, 2009 to 2013
• Light construction for the Jewish Museum Frankfurt , opening in November 2019
• Competition 2014: German Romantic Museum Frankfurt am Main. Second prize like Michael A. Landes and Christoph Mäckler
• Conversion and extension of the Richard Wagner Museum, until 2015
• Extension for the Bauhaus archive
• General renovation and renovation of the House of the State Parliament , Stuttgart, 2013–2016
• Jewish Community Center with Synagogue Regensburg , inauguration February 27, 2019
• Armory extension in Munich , 2019

Awards

• BDA Prize Bavaria
• City of Munich Prize for Cityscape Maintenance for the extension of the Bavarian Parliament (2000)
• Architecture Prize Concrete (1999; 2014)
• City of Nuremberg Prize (2000)
• German natural stone award
• special recognition of the German Urban Development Award .
• Leo von Klenze Medal (2001)
• Special recognition by the German Urban Development Prize for the New Museum in Nuremberg (2001)
• German facade prize for rear-ventilated curtain walls for the service center on Theresienwiese in Munich (2005)
• Hugo Häring Prize of the BDA Baden-Württemberg for the University of Heidelberg, new Bioquant building (2009)
• Architecture Prize 2010 of the BDA Saxony for Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz (2010)
• Big BDA Prize (2011)
• German Architecture Prize for Albertinum Dresden, renovation and new depot construction (2011)
• BDA Prize Lower Saxony 2012 for NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg (2012)
• Lower Saxony State Prize for Architecture 2012 for the expansion of the Nya Nordiska headquarters in Dannenberg
• Nike in the category »Fügung« 2013 for NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg
• German facade award for ventilated curtain walls for high-rise C10 of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (2013)
• Hugo Häring Prize (2018) for the general renovation of the state parliament building in Stuttgart.

Honors

• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2008)

Web links

Commons : Volker Staab  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Volker Staab in the catalog of the German National Library
• Own website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Staab ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. , Technical University of Braunschweig, accessed on October 25, 2013. 
2. ↑ Advisory Board , Federal Building Culture Foundation, accessed on December 1, 2015.
3. ↑ New architectural bronze pays homage to the old thatched roof in FAZ of September 3, 2013, page 29
4. ^ The house with the two addresses in FAZ of September 2, 2014, page 13
5. ↑ Finally an eye catcher. In: FAZ . October 23, 2012, p. 27.
6. ↑ Stuttgart's long misery. In: FAZ . May 29, 2013, p. 37.
7. ^ Architecture of the new Jewish Museum Frankfurt: Historic Rothschild Palais and modern light construction
8. ^ One courtyard or two courtyards in FAZ from August 15, 2014, page 31
9. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: INSIGHTS INTO THE REGENSBURG SYNAGOGUE
10. ^ House of the New Beginning, accessed on March 5, 2019
11. ↑ https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/architektur-ideenschmiede-statt-waffenkammer-1.4317907
12. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 157 of July 10, 2018, p. 14