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

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. 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 US occupation zone 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, Romano Guardini, 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

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: 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

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, also working during 1964 for

. Afrter receiving his Master of Science (M. Sc.) degree in 1965, he returned to

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. 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 Heinz Hilmer 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

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* 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),

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* 1988: Städtebaulicher Rahmenplan für

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* 1990–1993: Studentenwohnheim Freiwasser,

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* 1991: städtebauliche Gesamtplanung des Potsdamer und Leipziger Platzes * 1993: U-Bahnhof Am Hart, Munich * 1994: Kupferstichkabinett Berlin (Museum of Prints and Drawings) * 1995–1997: Modernisation Schloss Elmau * 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 „ Fünf Höfe“, München (Bauteil Salvatorstraße) * 2000–2003: Hotel Ritz-Carlton (

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

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Park * 2005–2007: The Charles Hotel, Munich * 2009: Congress center Hotel Einstein, St. Gallen * 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 Museum Barberini, 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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