Berlin Kulturforum Kunstbibliothek und Kupferstichkabinett

Berliner U-Bahnhof Mendelsohn-Bartholdy-Park

Christoph Sattler is a prolific

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architect who has been professionally active since the early 1970s. Most of his more prominent buildings are in southern Germany or Berlin. Although he is known for a number of large high-profile residential developments, he has also attracted widespread critical and public attention with public buildings and structures such as the Seeparkturm (''tower in a park'') in

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, the Kupferstichkabinett (museum of graphic art'') in

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, various underground stations such as those of Am Hart (Munich) and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park (Berlin) and several art galleries including the controversial Gemäldegalerie in Berlin. He studied for several years during the 1960s in North America as a post-graduate student. During that period he was employed with the firm of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Christoph Sattler is the son of one German architect and the grandson of

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Life

Christoph Sattler was born in

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which was administered as part of the

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after 1945. In cultural, social and political terms

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(of which

is the capital) was heavily influenced by the

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during the so-called Wirtschaftswunder years through which he grew up. He was born into a prosperous family that had come through the twelve Nazi years unburdened by Nazi political connections, in the judgment of the military occupiers. Christoph Sattler was a

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of the high-profile priest-intellectual,

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, and was indeed christened with "Romano" as his middle name, in celebration of that connection.Romano Guardini in Grendach, Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Waging am See In 1952 he was enrolled at the German school in

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. (His father, having switched careers, had recently accepted a senior diplomatic posting to the newly re-established West German embassy in the city.) In 1957 he enrolled at the

Technical University of Munich The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences. Establis ...

: here he studied

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with a number of eminent teachers, including

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, Josef Wiedemann and Franz Hart. He obtained practical experience with the architects Rudolf Schwarz (1960) and Peter C. von Seidlein. Sattler moved to

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in 1963 where he studied at the

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. Between 1963 and 1965 he was taught by

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and

Ludwig Hilberseimer Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer (September 14, 1885 – May 6, 1967) was a German architect and urban planner best known for his ties to the Bauhaus and to Mies van der Rohe, as well as for his work in urban planning at Armour Institute of Technology ( ...

, also working during 1964 for Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Afrter receiving his Master of Science (M. Sc.) degree in 1965 he returned to

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where between 1966 and 1973 he worked in the planning department of Neue Heimat (NH), a

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-based non-profit housing and construction enterprise belonging to the

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. In 1974 Christoph Sattler teamed up with

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to establish the

-based firm Hilmer & Sattler (as the firm was initially known).

Membership

Christoph Sattler is a member of the

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Portfolio (selection)

* 1969 (ongoing): Rehabilitation of the medieval old city

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian German, South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, third-largest city of the German States of Germany, state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital o ...

* 1971–1972: Habermas House (domestic home),

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* 1981: Wohnhaus Hans Herter House (domestic home), München * 1979–1982: Residential development "documenta urbana" (conceptualising, planning and design),

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* 1986: Seeparkturm (park tower),

Freiburg im Breisgau Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

* 1988: Städtebaulicher Rahmenplan für

Pforzheim Pforzheim () is a city of over 125,000 inhabitants in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, in the southwest of Germany. It is known for its jewelry and watch-making industry, and as such has gained the nickname "Goldstadt" ("Golden City") ...

* 1990–1993: Studentenwohnheim Freiwasser,

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* 1991: städtebauliche Gesamtplanung des

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und

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es * 1993: U-Bahnhof Am Hart, Munich * 1994:

Kupferstichkabinett Berlin The Kupferstichkabinett, or Museum of Prints and Drawings, is a prints museum in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Berlin State Museums, and is located in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz. It is the largest museum of graphic art in Germ ...

(Museum of Prints and Drawings) * 1995–1997: Modernisation

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* 1995–2006: Train station

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* 1998: U-Bahnhof Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park, Berlin * 1998: Berliner Gemäldegalerie (picture gallery) * 1998–2000: Martin Gropius Building renovation,

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* 1999–2002: City library and music school,

* 1999–2003: Zweiter Bauabschnitt der „

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“, München (Bauteil Salvatorstraße) * 2000–2003: Hotel Ritz-Carlton (

), Berlin * 2001–2003 & 2005: New Globe House for the

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Park * 2005–2007: The Charles Hotel, Munich * 2009: Congress center Hotel Einstein,

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* 2009:

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, Berlin * completed 2010: Masterplan for Museumsinsel, Berlin, jointly with

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and

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* completed 2012: Restoration

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, Berlin * since 2009: "Airtown" urban development plan for

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* 2008–2014: Nordbebauung der North Development of the Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Site,

(jointly with

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(architects) * 2017: Wiederaufbau

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, Potsdam * 2017–2018: MO82, Munich

Prizes (selection)

* 1977: Association of German Architects' (

) prize for the Habermas House,

* 1981:

(

) prize for the Wohnhaus Hans Herter House, Munich * 2003: Architecture Prize of the Bavarian capital, Munich

Notes

References

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