Ingeborg Kühler (born 25 May 1943, in

Dachau, Bavaria Dachau () is a Town#Germany, town in the Upper Bavaria district of Bavaria, a state in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a ''Große Kreisstadt''—of the Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about ...

) is a German architect, engineer and university lecturer. She was the first female design professor at a

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architecture faculty and designed the plans for the

Technoseum The Technoseum (former name State Museum of Technology and Work, German: ''Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit'') is a technology museum in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with displays covering the industrialisation of the south-western ...

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. She lives in

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Works (selection)

* 1983–1889: Studio of the South German Radio in Mannheim * Mannheim Technoseum 20100917

1983–1990: State Museum for Technology and Work "Technoseum" in Mannheim, 1990 * 1990–2001: Residence in Berlin-Kladow, 2001 * 2008: 1st exhibition of drawings and watercolors

Awards

* Förderungspreis des Kunstpreises Berlin for the field of architecture, together with the garden and landscape architect Dirk Jürgen Zilling, 1986 * European Award for Museum Design, 1992, for the "Technoseum" State Museum of Technology and Labor * BDA Award for Good Buildings, 1990 * German Steel Construction Award, recognition * 30 September 2017 – 8 March 2018, FRAU ARCHITEKT: In the film and exhibition at the

German Architecture Museum The Deutsches Architekturmuseum (English: German Architecture Museum), or DAM, is located on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt, Germany. Housed in an 18th-century building, the interior has been re-designed by Oswald Mathias Ungers in 1984 as a set ...

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and in the catalog for the exhibition FRAU ARCHITEKT.

Literature

* Karin Wilhelm: "Das Auge wandert mit": Die Architektin Ingeborg Kuhler. In: Mary Pepchinski et al. (eds.): Frau Architekt. Seit mehr als 100 Jahren: Frauen im Architektenberuf. Wasmuth, Tübingen 2017, , p. 221–225, 299.

References

1943 births Living people People from Dachau 20th-century German architects Engineers from Bavaria {{Germany-architect-stub