Mainhard von Gerkan ( German: Meinhard von Gerkan ; born January 3, 1935 , Riga ) is a German architect.
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Biography
Meinhard von Gerkan comes from a family of Baltic Germans . His father died at the front during World War II , his mother died shortly after their departure from Poznan . Gerkan grew up in an orphanage in Hamburg . He was married twice, he has six children. Consists of kinship with the archaeologist Armin von Gerkan .
In 1964, Gerkan completed his architectural education at the Braunschweig Higher Technical School . In 1965, together with Folkwin Marg, he established the architectural bureau gmp in Hamburg. In the first two years, partners managed to win eight architectural competitions, including with the Berlin-Tegel Airport project, which was their first project of this magnitude.
In 1974, Herkan accepted an invitation to work at the Braunschweig Technical University , where until 2002 he headed the Institute of Architectural Design. The architectural bureau gmp has also completed projects to expand the airports of Hamburg and Stuttgart, the new metropolitan Central Station and the reconstruction of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin. Currently, the architectural bureau is actively working on projects in China.
Projects
- Diekirch Sports Center in Luxembourg
- Nanning International Convention Center, China
- Tempodrome in Berlin
- City Concert Hall in Bielefeld
- Stuttgart Airport Terminals 1 and 3
- Hotel Plaza on Hilmansplatz in Bremen
- Music and Congress Center in Lübeck
- MAK Office Building in Kiel
- Germanischer Lloyd Building in Hamburg
- German-Japanese Center in Hamburg
- Eugen Guttman's House on Paris Square in Berlin
- Nordseepassage Shopping Center in Wilhelmshaven
- Aral AG office building in Bochum
- Swissotel in Berlin
- Hamburg Airport Jumbohalle Terminal
- Berlin Central Station
- Hamburg Airport
- Berlin Tegel Airport
- Sheremetyevo Airport -2
- Commerzbank Arena Stadium in Frankfurt
- Rhine Energy Stadium in Cologne
- Christ Pavilion at Volkenrod
- Casino in Bad Steben
- Lingang New City in Shanghai , China
- Maritime Museum in Shanghai, China
- Tourist Center in Hangzhou , China
- Theater and Cultural Center in Worms
Compositions
- Meinhard von Gerkan: Black Box BER. Wie Deutschland seine Zukunft verbaut . 1. Auflage. Bastei Lübbe, Köln 2013, ISBN 978-3-869950600 .
Notes
- ↑ Structurae - Ratingen .
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 120572427 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.