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

Life

Born in

Heidelberg Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914 ...

, Staab studied architecture from 1977 bis 1983 at the

ETH Zürich (colloquially) , former_name = eidgenössische polytechnische Schule , image = ETHZ.JPG , image_size = , established = , type = Public , budget = CHF 1.896 billion (2021) , rector = Günther Dissertori , president = Joël Mesot , ac ...

(Diploma Architect ETH). From 1985 to 1990, he worked as a freelancer for the office of Dietrich Bangert, Bernd Jansen, Stefan Scholz and in Berlin. In the same year, he collaborated on the design for the

Kunstmuseum Bonn The Kunstmuseum Bonn or Bonn Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Bonn, Germany, founded in 1947. The Kunstmuseum exhibits both temporary exhibitions and its collection. Its collection is focused on Rhenish Expressionism and post-war German ...

. He has been a freelance architect since 1990. In 1991 he founded the architectural practice Volker Staab. Since 1996 he has worked in partnership with Alfred Nieuwenhuizen under Staab Architekten, since 2007 as Staab Architekten GmbH. In 2002-2004 Staab took on a

visiting scholar In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...

position at the

Technische Universität Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

. In 2002, he also received a lectureship at the

Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg) was founded in 1662 by Jacob von Sandrart and is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe. The art academy is situated in Nuremberg. Classes ...

. In 2005, he became a visiting professor at the

FH Münster FH Münster, based in the Westphalian city of Münster with a second campus in Steinfurt, is a German university. It has a student enrolment of around 15,000 (as of winter semester 2018/19), making it one of the largest public universities of ...

and taught there until 2007. From 2008 to 2009, Staab held the deputy chair of architecture/public spaces and buildings at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Since 2012 he has held the professorship for design and spatial composition at the

TU Braunschweig The Technische Universität Braunschweig (unofficially University of Braunschweig – Institute of Technology), commonly referred to as TU Braunschweig, is the oldest ' (comparable to an institute of technology in the American system) in Germany. ...

Memberships

Staab is a member of the

Bund Deutscher Architekten The Association of German Architects (German: ''Bund Deutscher Architekten'', BDA) is an association of architects founded in 1903 in Germany. It publishes the bimonthly magazine ''der architekt''. The BDA has over 5,000 members. In 1995, it fo ...

(since 1997), a member of the

Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts (german: Akademie der Künste) is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The Academy's predecessor organization was fo ...

(since 2005) und des Beirats der in

Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and, with around 183,000 inhabitants, largest city of the German state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...

(since 2007). Since 2013 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the IBA Heidelberg and since 2014 a member of the Berlin State Monuments Council.

Buildings

LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster, Neubau-1030

* 1992–1994: Extension of the

Maximilianeum The Maximilianeum, a palatial building in Munich, was built as the home of a gifted students' foundation but since 1949 has housed the Bavarian State Parliament. It sits grandly and as a focal point on the bank of the Isar River above Maximilian ...

, Munich * 1992–1999:

Neues Museum Nürnberg Neues Museum Nürnberg (NMN) is a museum for modern and contemporary art and design in Nuremberg. Architecture In 1990 the Bavarian government decided to build a 20th-century museum. The building in which the museum is located was designed by ...

* 1997–2000:

Museum Georg Schäfer The Museum Georg Schäfer is a German art museum in Schweinfurt, Bavaria. Based on the private art collection of German industrialist Georg Schäfer (industrialist), Georg Schäfer (1896–1975), the museum primarily collects 19th-century paintin ...

Schweinfurt Schweinfurt ( , ; ) is a city in the district of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the surrounding district (''Landkreis'') of Schweinfurt and a major industrial, cultural and educational hub. The urban agg ...

* 2002–2004: Service Centre at the Theresienwiese, Munich * 2000-2005: Maximilianeum, redesign of the plenary hall of the Bavarian State Parliament, Munich * 2002-2006: German Embassy Mexico, Chancery Building, Mexico City * 2002-2007: University of Heidelberg - New building Bioquant * 2004–2007: Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz * 2004–2010:

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

, Sanierung und Neubau Zentraldepot * 2008–2010: Erweiterung des 's NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg * 2004–2011:

University of Potsdam The University of Potsdam is a public university in Potsdam, capital of the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is mainly situated across three campuses in the city. Some faculty buildings are part of the New Palace of Sanssouci which is known ...

, Informations-, Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum Golm. * 2005–2011: New Gallery, Kassel * 2006–2011:

Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe is a landscape park in Kassel, Germany. The area of the park is , making it the largest European hillside park, and second largest park on a hill slope in the world. Construction of the ''Bergpark'', or "mountain park", bega ...

, Besucherzentrum

Bad Wilhelmshöhe Bad or BAD may refer to: Common meanings *Evil, the opposite of moral good * Erroneous, inaccurate or incorrect * Unhealthy, or counter to well-being *Antagonist, the threat or obstacle of moral good Acronyms * BAD-2, a Soviet armored trolley ...

* 2009–2011: Museum of the Bavarian Kings, Hohenschwangau * 2010-2012: Nano-Bioanalytics Centre NBZ, Münster * 2005–2013:

Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History The Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History (''LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte'') is an arts and cultural museum in Münster, Germany Besides an extensive collection ranging from '' spätgotik'' painting and sculptur ...

Münster Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state distr ...

. * 2008–2013: . * 2008–2013: Ministry of the Interior of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart * 2010–2015: Conversion and extension of the Richard-Wagner-Museum * 2013–2016: General renovation and conversion of the House of the Landtage, Stuttgart * since 2016: Erweiterungsbau

Bauhaus Archive The Bauhaus Archive (german: Bauhaus-Archiv) is a state archive and Museum of Design located in Berlin. It collects art pieces, items, documents and literature which relate to the Bauhaus School (1919–1933), and puts them on public display. ...

* 2009–2017: , Potsdam * since 2017: Residential complex,

Landsberg am Lech Landsberg am Lech (Landsberg at the Lech) is a town in southwest Bavaria, Germany, about 65 kilometers west of Munich and 35 kilometers south of Augsburg. It is the capital of the district of Landsberg am Lech. Overview Landsberg is situated o ...

(Civil engineer: Michael Heubl). * 2018: Sanierung und Erweiterung Zeughaus München zur Fakultät für Design der Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences. * 2013–2019: Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology * 2013–2014:

Willy-Brandt-Schule (Warsaw) Deutsch-Polnische Begegnungsschule! „Willy Brandt, Willy-Brandt-Schule“ in Warschau (WBS, pl, Polsko-Niemiecka Szkoła Spotkań i Dialogu im. Willy’ego Brandta w Warszawie) is a German international school with a 1-12 campus and a Kindergart ...

, Deutsch-Polnische * 2015–2019: . * 2008–2020: Augustinerhof, Nürnberg * 2013–2020: Rehabilitation and expansion of the

Jewish Museum Frankfurt The Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main is the oldest independent Jewish Museum in Germany. It was opened by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl on 9 November 1988, the 50th anniversary of ''Kristallnacht''. The Jewish Museum collects, preserves and com ...

. * 2020: Protestant Centre,

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

Prizes

* 1995: BDA-Preis Bayern for expansion of the Bavarian Parliament, Munich * 2000: Preis für Stadtbildpflege der Stadt München for expansion of the Bavarian Parliament * Architekturpreis Beton (2001; 2014) for Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt, and Visitor Centre at the Herkules, Kassel * 2001: Deutscher Natursteinpreis for New Museum Nuremberg * 2001: Special recognition of the for New Museum Nuremberg * 2005: for Servicezentrum, Theresienwiese München * 2005: , Award, for Service Centre on the Theresienwiese, Munich * 2009: of the BDA Baden-Württemberg for Heidelberg University, new building Bioquant * 2010: Architekturpreis 2010 of the BDA Saxony for Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz * 2011: Deutscher Architekturpreis for Albertinum Dresden, Redevelopment and new construction of depository * 2012: for NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg * 2012: for Erweiterung des Firmensitzes von Nya Nordiska, Dannenberg * 2013: Nike in der Kategorie Fügung for NYA Nordiska, Dannenberg * 2013: Deutscher Fassadenpreis für vorgehängte hinterlüftete Fassaden for der Hochschule Darmstadt * 2013: , Perfection of detail category, for Museum of the Bavarian Kings, Hohenschwangau * 2014: Landesbaupreis Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for the Kunstmuseum Ahrenshoop * 2014: Deutscher Hochschulbaupreis für Informations-, Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Potsdam * 2017: Deutscher Architekturpreis, Auszeichnung, for Generalsanierung Haus des Landtags, Stuttgart * 2017: Bayerischer Staatspreis Bauen im Bestand for Richard Wagner Museum, Bayreuth * 2018: Deutscher Städtebaupreis, Auszeichnung, for LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster * 2018: Hugo-Häring-Landespreis des BDA Baden-Württemberg für Haus des Landtags, Stuttgart.Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Nr. 157 from 10 July 2018, * 2018: Bundespreis Europäische Stadt, 3. Preis, für Jüdisches Gemeindezentrum mit Synagoge, Regensburg * 2019: Architekturpreis Regensburg, Jüdisches Gemeindezentrum mit Synagoge, Regensburg * 2019: Deutscher Architekturpreis, award for Science and Restoration Centre, Potsdam

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Staab, Volker 20th-century German architects 21st-century German architects Academic staff of the Technical University of Braunschweig Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1957 births Living people People from Heidelberg