Schocken building by Mendelsohn, restored in Chemnitz
09/01/2015.
Renovation by Auer Weber + Knerer and Lang. [Chemnitz] Germany
metalocus, SARA REBOLLO
metalocus, SARA REBOLLO
Carlo Weber, born 1934 in Saarbrücken, Germany, died May 2014, was a German architect and professor, the founder and senior partner of Auer Weber Architekten. He studied at the TH Stuttgart and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. He graduated in 1961 in Stuttgart. He worked for Behnisch und Lambart in Stuttgart between 1960 and 1965 and he became a partner of Behnisch & Partner in 1966. In 1980 Auer and Weber founded their own practice. Carlo Weber was a lecturer at the University of Stuttgart from 1980 to 1990 and he was professor for Building Theory and Design at the TU Dresden from 1992 to 1999. He had been a member of the Academy of the Arts in Saxony since 1996.
Fritz Auer, born 1933 in Tübingen, is a founder member of Auer Weber Architekten. He studied at the TH Stuttgart as well as at Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA. He graduated in 1962 in Stuttgart. He worked for Behnisch und Lambart in Stuttgart until 1965 when he became a partner of Behnisch & Partner. In 1980 Auer and Weber left the partnership to found their own practice. Fritz Auer was professor of Building Construction and Design at the FH Munich from 1985 to 1992 and professor of Design at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design from 1993 to 2001. He has been a member of the Academy of the Arts in Berlin since 1993.
Thomas Knerer was born in 1963 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. After he graduated he trained as a mason in Munich between 1982 and 1984 and studied from Architecture at the Technical University of Munich and the London South Bank University, 1984-1991. In 1993 he founded the architecture practice Knerer und Lang Architekten in Dresden, together with Eva Maria Lang. He has been a guest lecturer at the Education Center for Conservation and Restoration of old buildings at TU Dresden. From 1999 to 2008 he taught building construction at the West Saxon University of Zwickau (FH).
Eva Maria Lang was born in 1964 in Munich. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich between 1985 and 1991. From 1994 to 2001 she taught at the Technical University of Dresden and has been a guest lecturer at the Education Center for Conservation and Restoration of old buildings of the TU Dresden.