Volkwin Marg

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Volkwin Marg (born October 15, 1936 in Königsberg , East Prussia ) is a German architect . He is "one of the most important contemporary architects" and has "achieved worldwide fame as an architect of stadiums ."

Life

Berlin Tegel Airport
European Patent Office in Munich
Roofing of the inner courtyard of the Museum of Hamburg History
Hörnbrücke in Kiel
New Leipzig Trade Fair
Reconstruction, renovation and roofing of the Olympiastadion Berlin
Cape Town Stadium
Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban
Palacongressi in Rimini
National Stadium Warsaw
Roof and column facade of the Estádio Nacional de Brasília Mané Garrincha
Hamburg-Elbbrücken station

Volkwin Marg grew up in Gdansk , where his father was pastor at the Marienkirche , and had to flee with his parents to Thuringia at the end of the Second World War . From 1949 to 1957 he lived in Grabow in Mecklenburg and fled to West Berlin in 1957 . From 1958 to 1964 he studied architecture at the TU Berlin and at the TU Braunschweig as well as urban planning at the TU Delft . In Braunschweig, Marg passed his exams in 1965 and founded the architectural office Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) with Meinhard von Gerkan in the same year . In Germany he is considered "one of the most influential architects of the post-war period."

In 1972 Marg was appointed to the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg and in 1974 to the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning . From 1975 to 1983 he was only Vice President, from 1979 President of the Association of German Architects (BDA). In 1986, he received a call to the RWTH Aachen to the Chair of City Planning and texture studies to succeed Gottfried Böhm . Marg has been the principal of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac) since 2007 , which he founded together with the partners of gmp architects as part of the gmp foundation. In 2010 he became a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin . From 2012 to 2016 Marg was a member of the advisory board of the Federal Building Culture Foundation .

Marg was unsuccessfully committed to the preservation of the four high - rise buildings in the City-Hof in Hamburg and advocated a redesign of the Berlin Cultural Forum , in particular publicly criticizing the location for the Museum of the 20th Century . For Hamburg, Marg created “with the urban development feat of the basic concept of“ Hafen-City ”a completely new part of the city”, of which he is regarded as the “architectural father”. In 1976 he and other traditional Hamburg ship friends founded Germany's first museum harbor with the museum harbor Oevelgönne .

Prizes, awards and honors

In 1996 Marg was awarded the Fritz Schumacher Prize by the Alfred Töpfer Foundation . In 2004 he received the plaque of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg , in 2005 the Grand Prize of the Association of German Architects and in 2006 the Grand DAI Prize for Building Culture of the Association of German Architects and Engineers Associations . On November 30, 2009 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. On April 27, 2012, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in the field of architecture by the academic senate of HafenCity University Hamburg . In 2016 Marg received the "BDA Hamburg Baukultur Prize 2016" together with Meinhard von Gerkan. In over fifty years he and his office partners have won more than 400 first prizes in national and international architecture competitions, and numerous buildings have received awards.

Buildings (selection)

Publications

As an author

  • (With Anke Marg) Hamburg, Building since 1900. A guide to 120 selected buildings. Christians, Hamburg 1969.
  • Study on the development of the inner-city port edge between Grasbrook and Baakenhafen. Client: Society for Port and Location Development GHS, Hamburg. Aachen 1996.
  • New Leipzig Trade Fair. New Trade Fair Leipzig. Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner 1992–1996. Birkhäuser, Basel a. a. 1997, ISBN 978-3-7643-5429-9 .
  • Construction and interpretation. Structure and intention. Edited by Kristin Feireiss u. Hans-Jürgen Commerell. Aedes, Berlin 2006 ISBN 978-3-937093-66-6 .
  • Architecture is - of course not apolitical. Edited by Ingeborg Flagge , Prestel, Munich a. a. 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4284-9 .
  • “The mind so fast, the soul so slowly.” Conversations about architecture. niggli, Salenstein 2016, ISBN 978-3-7212-0962-4 .
  • Active. Stories of a three-masted double-sail schooner from the launch in 1952 to today. 45 countries, 420,000 nautical miles, 1,500 fellow sailors, and it goes on…. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-667-10836-4 .

As editor

  • Halls 8 + 9. Expo halls 8 + 9. Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. Deutsche Messe AG. Expo 2000 Hannover GmbH. Prestel, Munich a. a. 2000. ISBN 3-7913-2136-6 .
  • Olympiastadion Berlin. Refurbishment and modernization 2000–2004. DZA, Altenburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-936300-16-1 .
  • Stadiums and arenas. Stadia and arenas. Von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1677-7 .
  • From Cape Town to Brasília. New stadiums by GMP. Prestel, Munich a. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-7913-4439-3 .
  • (for the Akademie der Künste, Berlin) Gert Kähler: Choreography of the masses. In sports. In the stadium. Intoxicated. Jovis, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86859-164-4 .
  • Gert Kähler : On old foundations. Building in a historical context - Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partner. Dölling and Galitz, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86218-039-4 .
  • (with Hubert Nienhoff ) State Ballet School Berlin. Jovis, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86859-332-7 .
  • Gert Kähler: secret HafenCity project or how do you invent a new district? Dölling and Galitz, Munich / Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-86218-092-9 .
  • (with Hubert Nienhoff) New Hans Sachs House in Gelsenkirchen. Jovis, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86859-353-2 .

literature

  • Sabine Gundlach: Visions of a star architect . In: The world . June 14, 2005 ( welt.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  • Katja Gäbler, Fabian Wehner: Volkwin Marg. Synchronization with rhythmic applause is disgusting to me, so I involuntarily clap against . In: aftershocks. Encounters with German life stories from the 20th century . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-428-14826-4 , pp. 95-100, 194-198, 291-295 .
  • What he builds works immediately. Volkwin Marg for the 80th In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 13, 2016 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  • Christian Thomas: Volkwin Marg - the Citoyen . In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 14, 2016 ( fr.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  • Jürgen Tietz : I am political anyway . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 29, 2016 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  • “Our culture is the greatest capital we have.” In: Deutsche Bauzeitschrift . No. 1 , 2019 ( dbz.de [accessed April 28, 2020]).
  • "The Germans were obsessed with rebuilding." A stadium with a tent roof, a Reichstag with a dome and now a Prussian castle. Star architect Volkwin Marg on building politics, guilt turned to stone and West German ignorance . In: The time . November 10, 2019 ( zeit.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).

Web links

Wikiquote: Volkwin Marg  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert Vojta: “Hamburger Hafencity? That was a special class political story ” . In: Die Welt, April 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Norbert Thomma, Bjorn Rosen: Stadiums: Cathedrals of football. Architect Volkwin Marg . In: Der Tagesspiegel, July 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Volkwin Marg. Synchronization with rhythmic applause is disgusting to me, so I involuntarily clap against. In: Katja Gäbler, Fabian Wehner: aftershocks. Encounters with German life stories from the 20th century. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015, p. 95.
  4. ^ Volkwin Marg in the Museum of World War II in Gdansk . In: Bauwelt . No. 14 , 2017, ISSN  0005-6855 , p. 10 ( bauwelt.de [accessed on May 19, 2020]).
  5. ↑ a b c Jürgen Tietz : I am political anyway . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 29, 2016 ( nzz.ch [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  6. ↑ "The Germans were obsessed with rebuilding." Stadium with tent roof, Reichstag with dome and now a Prussian castle. Star architect Volkwin Marg on building politics, guilt turned to stone and West German ignorance . In: Die Zeit , November 10, 2019.
  7. ^ Architecture - Members. Volkwin Marg. Academy of the Arts Berlin, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Advisory Board . Website of the Federal Building Culture Foundation. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
  9. ↑ Summary of the results of the electoral convention on November 4, 2016. The election of the convention's committees in 2016. Bundesstiftung Baukultur, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Architect Volkwin Marg on the Kulturforum "Technically nothing would stand in the way of underpassing Potsdamer Strasse" . In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 5, 2015 ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed April 25, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Volkwin Marg: "Location against all recommendations". In: heute journal. zdf, November 14, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  12. ↑ What he builds works immediately. Volkwin Marg on the 80th In: Der Tagesspiegel, October 13, 2016.
  13. ↑ Dirk Meyhöfer: The master planner . In: Quartier. Magazine for HafenCity, Speicherstadt and Katharinenviertel, No. 17, March-May 2012.
  14. ↑ The Great DAI Prize for Building Culture. Previous winners since 1995. Bundesstiftung Baukultur, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Super medals for star architects. Hamburger Morgenpost , December 1, 2009, accessed December 30, 2012 .
  16. ↑ Meinhard v. Gerkan and Volkwin Marg awarded the Federal Cross of Merit. hamburg.business-on.de , December 1, 2009, accessed December 30, 2012 .
  17. ↑ Honorary doctorate from HafenCity University for Professor Volkwin Marg. (Pdf; 75 kB) Press release. HafenCity University Hamburg, April 23, 2012, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  18. ↑ BDA Hamburg Baukultur Prize 2016. Meinhard von Gerkan and Volkwin Marg awarded! Bund Deutsche Architekten BDA Hamburg, November 4, 2016, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  19. ^ History. gmp - Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, accessed on April 25, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Claas Gefroi: … getting on in years - Sportforum der Universität Kiel , Deutsche Bauzeitung Heft 3, 2013, p. 56.
personal data
SURNAME Marg, Volkwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)