Stephan Braunfels
Biography
Stephan Braunfels was born on August 1, 1950. He completed his studies at the Technical University of Munich in 1975 and established his office in Munich in 1978.
Early career
Braunfels’ first competition success along with his plans and critiques on urban design concepts for Munich formed the basis for the exhibition “Designs for Munich” shown in 1987 at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Museum for Architecture) in Frankfurt/Main. As an advisor to the City of Dresden in 1991-1993, Braunfels designed a master plan for the reconstruction of the historic city centre of Dresden. Braunfels opened his Berlin office in 1996.
Major projects
Pinakothek der Moderne
After the completion of his first projects in Munich and Dresden, Braunfels won several competitions. The first major competition he won was for Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne in 1992. This project took ten years to come to fruition and opened in late 2002 as one of the largest new museums in Germany. Braunfels garnered numerous prizes and lauding reviews for this seminal building.
Peter Schjeldahl, reviewing the Pinakothek der Moderne in the New Yorker (January 13, 2003), wrote: “it is a big but self-effacing, “invisible” building: on the outside, a bland concrete-steel-and-glass shoebox; on the inside, a dream of subtly proportioned, shadowless, sugar-white galleries that branch off from an airy, three-story rotunda. In the effulgent atmosphere, you may know where the walls are only by where the pictures hang. I gratefully watched colors combust in Kirchners and Noldes under translucent, all-skylight ceilings. (I’ll never again think of Expressionist color as generally sour and arbitrary.) On an ordinary rainy Tuesday in November, the place was thronged with people in festive spirits. The Moderne is a great success.”
German parliament buildings
In 1994, Braunfels’ design for the 81,000 square meter German Parliament office building — Paul Lbe Hausas awarded first prize. The home of German Parliamaent’s offices and committee chambers opened in 2001 and is one of the most prominent structures in Berlin. In 1996 he was awarded first prize for another parliament building design, the 65,000 square meter Marie Elisabeth Lders Haus, which houses the German Parliament’s offices, library and repository. This second landmark building opened to critical acclaim in 2003.
These three projects are considered to be some of the largest scale projects in post-Cold War Germany and have established Braunfels as an architectural force both in Germany and internationally. His designs and concepts have played a significant role in reshaping the country’s cities since the fall of Berlin Wall and end of the Cold War.
Buildings and projects
Completed
Ulm Department Store, Mnstertor, Ulm (2007)
Ulm Headquarters Sparkasse, Ulm (2007)
Lohengrin (Opera Production), Baden-Baden, Germany (2006)
Restaurant Tantris, Munich, Germany (2005)
Marie Elisabeth Lders Haus, Berlin, Germany (2003)
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany (2002)
Paul Lbe Haus, Berlin, Germany (2001)
Museum Schloss Wilhelmshhe, Kassel, Germany (2000)
Atrium Rosegardens, Dresden, Germany (1997)
Richard Strauss Strae, Munich, Germany (1994)
Edlinger Platz, Munich, Germany (1994)
Brocenter Georg Brauchle Ring, Mnchen Office Center Georg Brauchle Ring, Munich, Germany (1993)
Brokomplex Halbergmoos, Mnchen Office Center Halbergmoos, Munich, Germany (1993)
Auenstrae, Mnchen Auenstrae, Munich, Germany (1993)
Berliner Strae, Mnchen Berliner Strae, Munich, Germany (1993)
Balanstrae, Mnchen Balanstrae, Munich, Germany (1993)
Georgplatz, Dresden, Germany (1993)
Masterplan Altstadtring, Dresden, Germany (1992)
Ares Wall Light, ClassiCon (1992)
Redesign Marienhof, Munich, Germany (1987)
Hofgartenareal, Munich, Germany (1984)
In progress
Saarphilharmonie, Saarbrcken,Germany
Extension German Parliament, Berlin, Germany
Federal Archives, Berlin, Germany
Glacis Terraces, Neu Ulm, Germany
Komische Oper, Berlin, Germany
Drosbach Cloche d’Or, Luxembourg
House Mangold, Portland, Oregon
External links
STEPHAN BRAUNFELS ARCHITEKTEN BDA
PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE
References
1. Pinakothek der Moderne (review), The New Yorker, January 13, 2003
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