Karl-Heinz Petzinka (born 7 January 1956) is a German architect, and

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of the

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. He is known for office buildings in

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and Berlin. He converted historic industrial buildings, and was responsible for the section architecture for the

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project.

Career

Born in Bocholt, Petzinka studied architecture at the

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

from 1976 and graduated in 1982 with the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur. In 1981, he received the

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state's Förderpreis for young artists in the field of architecture. After his first professional years 1982–1983 as a freelance architect in the office of O. M. Ungers in Cologne, he worked as an assistant to at the RWTH Aachen from 1983 to 1985. From 1986 to 1987, he was a scholarship holder of the

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in the architecture category. From 1988, Petzinka taught design at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, and in 1994 he was appointed professor in the Department of Design and Building Technology at the

Technische Universität Darmstadt The Technische Universität Darmstadt (official English name Technical University of Darmstadt, sometimes also referred to as Darmstadt University of Technology), commonly known as TU Darmstadt, is a research university in the city of Darmstadt ...

, where he taught until 2007. During this time, Petzinka also held guest professorships at the

and at RWTH Aachen. At the same time, he founded the Petzinka Pink Architekten studio together with Thomas Pink in 1994, with offices in Düsseldorf and Berlin. The conversion of the in Bochum in 2002/03 is one of the projects in which this concept – in this case the addition of technological and reactivating elements to the historical building fabric and building construction – was implemented. At the same time, the Jahrhunderthalle marks the opening of a new field of work in Petzinka's oeuvre with the conversion of historic buildings to a new use. In October 2004, Petzinka took over as chairman of the management of the real estate company with headquarters in the converted in Gelsenkirchen. Petzinka left the company in November 2011. In 2007, Petzina was appointed as one of four program directors of the

project for the Ruhr being European Capital of Culture in 2010. He was responsible for the sector "City of Possibilities" which included architecture, urban development and visual arts. Since 2008, he has been professor of the Baukunst class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He also acts as an adjudicator at national and international level. Since 2012, he has also held a visiting professorship at the Austral University of Chile on the topics of systems, urban planning and planning in non-European countries. On 24 April 2017, Petzinka became the fourth architect to be elected

of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He took office on 1 August 2017 for a term of four years.

Work

Petzinka's best-known architectural projects include the

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, a skysrcaper in Düsseldorf that won the

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award, the built in Berlin as the federal headquarter of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), the Representation of the state of

to the Federal Government in Berlin, and the conversion of the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum into a venue for the

Ruhrtriennale The Ruhrtriennale (compound of ''Ruhr'' and ''triennale'' "lasting 3 years"), also known as Ruhr Triennale, was founded in 2002 and is a music and arts festival in the Ruhr-area of Germany which runs between mid-August and mid-October, and happens ...

festival. Petzinka has also planned and realised buildings in the commercial, public and administrative sectors as well as private residences. In Gelsenkirchen, he was involved in the construction of the , the Nordstern Video Art Centre Goetz Collection, the planning of the urban development project Stadtquartier am Schloß Horst, and the revitalization of both the workshop building of the Zeche Nordstern and of the Rote Halle in Düsseldorf.

Publications

* Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz, Jürgen Volkwein, Florian Lang: ''Technische Gebäudeausstattung''''Technische Gebäudeausstattung''
on WorldCat In Giebeler, Fisch, Krause, Musso, Petzinka, Rudolphi: "Atlas Sanierung. Instandhaltung, Umbau, Ergänzung" Birkhäuser, Basel 2008, . * Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz: ''Planen und Bauen in Lebenszyklen'' In Energieatlas – Nachhaltige Architektur; Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, . * * Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Thomas Pink, Johannes Busmann: ''Technologische Architektur''; Birkhäuser, Basel 2004, .

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Petzinka, Karlheinz 20th-century German architects RWTH Aachen University alumni Academic staff of the University of Wuppertal Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt Academic staff of Kunstakademie Düsseldorf 1956 births Living people People from Bocholt, Germany 21st-century German architects