Jörg Friedrich (born 1951 in Erfurt) is a German architect.
Career
He received his degree as an architect in 1978 at the University of Stuttgart. Following collaboration with the architects, Peter Poelzig and Joachim Schürmann in their offices in Berlin and Cologne, he became independent in 1980 with an office in Venice, together with Bernd Sammek, Jürgen Böge and Ingeborg Lindner. Following his work together with Luitpold Frommel at the Max Planck Institute in Rome 1984/85, Jörg Friedrich established the international office of architecture, pfp-architects, with its headquarters in Hamburg, later also with offices in Genoa and Rome. Jörg Friedrich assumed the position of lecturer at the History of Arts Institutes at the Universities of Hamburg (1983-1986), of Genoa, of Rome and of Wuppertal. In the year 2005 he became a member of the Evaluation Commission at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. From 1988 until 2000 as Professor in Hamburg Jörg Friedrich taught courses in Drafting and the History of Architecture. He received an offer of a professorship in 1992 at the RWTH in Aachen and chaired the departments of Structural Concepts and the Theory of Architecture in 2000 at the Leibniz University in Hanover. Jörg Friedrich was Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg from 1994 to 1998 where he is yet a member and where he was appointed to the “Committee of the Fritz Schumacher Award” in Hamburg in 2006. He is a member of the “Dramaturgical Society” as well as of the “Foundation Architectural Art” in Berlin. In 2013 he was elected Dean of the Leibniz University.
Selected projects
2013: Cultural Power Station, central Dresden
2012: Congress Center, Padua
2012: Main-Franconia Theater, Würzburg
2011: Theater, Large Auditorium and Foyer, Düsseldorf
2010: New Theater Building, Gütersloh
2010: Construction of New Medical Clinics in Darmstadt’s Hospital Center, including Memorial Site for Former Liberal Synagogue, Darmstadt 2010: Staatstheater - Schauspielhaus redevelopment, Nuremberg 2008: Competency Center of the Chamber of Handcraftsmanship, Harburg – Hamburg 2008: Residential Construction “Bavaria Grounds”, St. Pauli, Hamburg 2006: Residential Building at Kaiser Quay in Harbour City, Hamburg 2003: Sports Center and Residential Area in the Lotharinger Strasse, Münster 2003: Theater Erfurt 2002: Canteen and Auditorium Maximum, Central University Area, Flensburg 1998: Officers’ Army Training Academy, Sports Center, Renovation Measures, Dresden 1997: Nursing Center, Kindergarten and Senior Residence Facilities in „St. Loyen”, Lemgo 1993: Main Administration Building of the City Works, Witten, Westphalia
Awards
2010 BDA Hamburg Prize for Architecture / 1. Prize for the Elbe Campus, Chamber of Handcraftsmanship Hamburg 2008 BDA Hamburg Prize for Architecture / 3. Prize for residential construction on the Bavaria grounds 2008 BDA Hamburg Prize for Architecture 2008 in acknowledgement of residential construction in the “Harbor City” at the Kaiser Quay 2008 1. Prize for the Center of Competency, Chamber of Handcraftsmanship Hamburg (Elbe Campus), Yearbook “Architecture in Hamburg”, distinguished projects 1989-2008 2007 Architectural and Engineering Association, Hamburg: Building of the Year 2007, award for residential construction at the Bavaria site 2007 Foundation award 2007 in recognition of the “Living City” project for the Park Terrace in Göhren, Thuringia 2004 Thüringen State Prize for Architecture and Urban Design in recognition of the Opera / Theater in Erfurt 2000 Architecture – Art Award, New Saxony Art Association, Dresden 1997 “Fine Building Distinction” for the administration building in Witten 1989 Architecture Prize Recklinghausen for Justice Training Academy, North Rhine-Westphalia 1987 Federal Republic of Germany Award 1986 The City of Hamburg’s Promotion Prize “Fritz Schumacher Award” 1984 North Rhine Westphalian Promotion Prize for Young Artists