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Hans Kollhoff (born 18 September 1946 in
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,
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) is a German architect and professor. He is a representative of
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and
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, as well as a protagonist of
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.


Early life

Kollhoff spent the first six years of his life on the family farm in Thuringia at the southern tip of the newly established
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. In 1953 the family escaped to West Germany and settled in Northern Baden.


Career

Kollhoff began his architecture studies at the
University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...
in 1968. As an undergraduate student Kollhoff was indirectly introduced to the teaching of
Egon Eiermann Egon Eiermann (29 September 1904 – 20 July 1970) was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at the Technical University ...
through the courses that Eiermann had written, but no longer taught, and through his work in the Karlsruhe studio of architect Gerhard Assem who had been a collaborator of Eiermann. In 1974 Kollhoff studied at the
Vienna University of Technology TU Wien (TUW; german: Technische Universität Wien; still known in English as the Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, Austria. The university finds high international and domestic recogn ...
, and worked for one year at the studio of
Hans Hollein Hans Hollein (30 March 1934 – 24 April 2014) was an Austrian architect and designer
. He returned to Karlsruhe to complete his diploma thesis in 1975. Then with a scholarship from the DAAD to attend
Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
, Kollhoff studied, alongside
Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is often cited as a re ...
, amongst the stimulating atmosphere prompted by the academic rivalry between architectural historian
Colin Rowe Colin Rowe (27 March 1920 – 5 November 1999), was a British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician, and teacher; he is acknowledged to have been a major theoretical and critical influence, in the second h ...
and architect and theorist
Oswald Mathias Ungers Oswald Mathias Ungers (12 July 1926 – 30 September 2007) was a German architect and architectural theorist, known for his rationalist designs and the use of cubic forms. Among his notable projects are museums in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Colo ...
. Kollhoff became an assistant to Ungers in 1977. Kollhoff opened his own studio in Berlin in 1978, and since 1984 has run the studio in partnership with Helga Timmermann. Until 1985, he was an assistant at the HdK (
Berlin University of the Arts The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...
), and until 2012, Kollhoff was Professor of Architecture and Construction at the
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. He has held several guest-professorships both at home and abroad. His projects as an architect in Germany and Europe span all scales, from the civic to the residential. Since 2004 Kollhoff leads the "''
Bauakademie The Bauakademie (''Building Academy'') in Berlin, Germany, was a higher education school for the art of building to train master builders. It originated from the construction department of the Academy of Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences (from ...
''" project, whose goal is to reconstruct the
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building, Berlin 1836, which was demolished in 1962.


Architecture

Hans Kollhoff's architecture is characterised by a classical building-style and the use of solid, traditional materials, such as stone and brick, worked according to traditional methods. During his career, Kollhoff has developed in the direction of a more and more traditional form, often using classical motifs. For this reason he is sometimes criticized for creating an outdated "retro-architecture", that loses itself in a nostalgic imitation of traditional formalism. However Kollhoff's work, with its attention to detail also within the interior space, may be read as a continuation of the work of early twentieth century architects, see
Adolf Loos Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (; 10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an Austrian and Czechoslovak architect, influential European theorist, and a polemicist of modern architecture. He was an inspiration to modernism and a widely-k ...
.


Germany

In Berlin, he has designed in
Potsdamer Platz Potsdamer Platz (, ''Potsdam Square'') is a public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corne ...
a high-rise tower in an old-New York brick style, for
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. He was also responsible for the master planning of high-rise buildings on the
Alexanderplatz () ( en, Alexander Square) is a large public square and transport hub in the central Mitte district of Berlin. The square is named after the Russian Tsar Alexander I, which also denotes the larger neighbourhood stretching from in the nort ...
. Among his works are also the reconstruction of the former Reichsbank into the new Foreign Office, and the so-called ''Leibnizkolonnaden'' in the district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf near the
Kurfürstendamm The Kurfürstendamm (; colloquially ''Ku'damm'', ; en, Prince Elector Embankment) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former ''Kurfürsten'' (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevar ...
. In 2005 he constructed the inner rooms of the exclusive night club ''Goya'' on Nollendorfplatz, that opened on December 1 in the building where the '' Metropol'' had formerly been. In
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he has erected the 88 meter tall residential building Main Plaza in the ''Deutschherrnviertel''. At
Alte Messe Leipzig Alte Messe Leipzig (Old trade fair of Leipzig) is the circa 50 ha (124 acre) site in the southeastern part of Leipzig's district Mitte, where from 1920 until 1991 the technical exhibitions of the Leipzig Trade Fair took place, as well ...
, he designed in 1996 one of the nine head offices of the German Central Bank. which was in 1999 awarded the ''Architekturpreis der Stadt Leipzig'' (Architecture Award of the City of Leipzig).


Netherlands

Outside of Germany, Kollhoff has designed numerous buildings in the
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. His first project, the ''Piraeus'', was realized in 1994 on the
KNSM Island The KNSM Island is a man-made island in the Eastern Docklands of Amsterdam. KNSM stands for the Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij, the Royal Dutch Steamboat Shipping company which used to have its headquarters and its docks on the i ...
in
Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
. His most known projects in the country however were built in
Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...
: both the ''Statendam'' high-rise tower at the Binnenrotte and the ''Compagnie'' residential buildings at the
Kop van Zuid Kop van Zuid () is a neighborhood of Rotterdam, Netherlands, located on the south bank of the Nieuwe Maas opposite the center of town. The district is relatively young and includes the Wilhelmina Pier as well as the ''V'' bounded by the Rose Stre ...
stand out in their respective area's. Other notable projects of Kollhoff in the Netherlands include ''De Colonel'' in
Maastricht Maastricht ( , , ; li, Mestreech ; french: Maestricht ; es, Mastrique ) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht is located on both sides of the ...
, the ''Foortse Towers Vathorst'' in
Amersfoort Amersfoort () is a city and municipality in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands, about 20 km from the city of Utrecht and 40 km south east of Amsterdam. As of 1 December 2021, the municipality had a population of 158,531, making it the second- ...
and the building of the Dutch
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and
Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations The Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations ( nl, link=no, Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties; BZK) is the Netherlands' ministry responsible for domestic policy, civil service, public administration, elections, loca ...
(also known as the ''JuBi-building'') at the Turfmarkt in
The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...
– his highest project yet.


Gallery

File:Berlin, Tiergarten, Potsdamer Platz, Beisheim Center 01.jpg, The Beisheim Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin File:Potsdamer Platz - Kollhoff-Tower, 20060603.jpg, Kollhoff-Tower at the
Potsdamer Platz Potsdamer Platz (, ''Potsdam Square'') is a public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corne ...
, Berlin File:Dominium Köln (4350-52).jpg, Dominium in
Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
File:Die Galerie Roter Turm und ihr Namensgeber, 2016.jpg, Galerie Roter Turm at the Neumarkt,
Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...
File:De Statendam.jpg, The Statendam in Rotterdam File:De Compagnie (Rotterdam) IMG 5119.jpg, The Compagnie in Rotterdam File:Maastricht Colonel.jpg, Colonel Building in Maastricht File:Uilebomen, Den Haag, Netherlands - panoramio (15).jpg, The JuBi-building in The Hague


Literature

* Kollhoff, Hans, ''Wohnen, Studentenprojekte'' (1999) * Kollhoff, Hans, ''Hans Kollhoff: Architektur/Architecture'' (2003) * Cepl, Jasper, ''Kollhoff & Timmermann Architects: Hans Kollhoff'' (2004)


References


External links

*
Official website of Hans Kollhoff Architects


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