Volker Staab, 2018
Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt
Volker Staab (born 25 December 1957) is a German architect.
Volker Staab (born 25 December 1957) is a German architect.
Born in Heidelberg, Staab studied architecture from 1977 bis 1983 at the ETH Zürich (Diploma Architect ETH). From 1985 to 1990, he worked as a freelancer for the office of Dietrich Bangert, Bernd Jansen, Stefan Scholz and Axel Schultes in Berlin. In the same year, he collaborated on the design for the Kunstmuseum Bonn.
He has been a freelance architect since 1990. In 1991 he founded the architectural practice Volker Staab. Since 1996 he has worked in partnership with Alfred Nieuwenhuizen under Staab Architekten, since 2007 as Staab Architekten GmbH.
In 2002–2004 Staab took on a visiting scholar position at the Technische Universität Berlin. In 2002, he also received a lectureship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg. In 2005, he became a visiting professor at the FH Münster and taught there until 2007. From 2008 to 2009, Staab held the deputy chair of architecture/public spaces and buildings at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart. Since 2012 he has held the professorship for design and spatial composition at the TU Braunschweig.
Staab is a member of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (since 1997), a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin (since 2005) und des Beirats der Bundesstiftung Baukultur in Potsdam (since 2007). Since 2013 he has been a member of the board of trustees of the IBA Heidelberg and since 2014 a member of the Berlin State Monuments Council. [1] [2]
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