Thomas Herzog

Thomas Herzog (born 1941) is a German architect from Munich known for his focus on climate and energy use through the use of technologically advanced architectural skins. Prof. Dr. Thomas Herzog studied architecture at the Technische Universität München (TUM), where he received his diploma in 1965. His dissertation on “Pneumatic Structures,” University of Rome La Sapienza, was submitted in 1972. Herzog’s academic career began in 1973 at the University of Kassel where he became Germany’s youngest Professor of Architecture. 1986 he was appointed professor at the TH Darmstadt, and in 1993 at TUM. He was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and became “Emeritus of Excellence“ in 2007. He worked as Guest Professor in Lausanne (EPFL), Philadelphia (PENN), and Copenhagen (Royal Danish Academy) and currently teaches at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He founded his own practice in 1971. Since then he has worked jointly with different partners (housing, administration, industrial, and exhibition buildings, etc.). He is member of the Académie d‘Architecture, Paris; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste; Munich, Russian Academy of Science and Arts, St. Petersburg; International Academy of Architecture at UNESCO, Sofia; and he received a Doctorate “ad honorem” from the University of Ferrara, Italy. Thomas Herzog has won numerous awards for his research work and projects, among which are the Mies van der Rohe Prize, the Gold Medal of the Bund Deutscher Architekten, the Auguste Perret Prize from the International Union of Architects, Den grønne Nål from the Federation of Danish Architects, Grand Médaille d’Or, Académie d’Architecture, Paris, Fritz Schumacher Prize for Architecture, and the Leo von Klenze Medal, as well as the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture. He is the author and editor of a series of books, including monographs in several languages.

 | last = Rattenbury
 | first = Kester
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 | coauthors = Rob Bevan and Kiernan Long
 | title = Architects of Today
 | publisher = Laurence King
 | date = 2004
 | location = 
 | pages = 104–105
 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=LmFooNzPaN0C
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 | isbn = 9781856694926}}</ref> He established his firm Herzog + Partner in 1983.

2006-09 International Visitors Center of Bavarian Building Industry (Bauwirtschaft) for Technische Universität München

2006-08 Training Centre for the Bavarian mountain rescue

2005-08 Solar residential buildings for the City of Rome Lunghezzina II with F. Tucci, Italy (in planning phase)

2005-07 Housing development in Aarhus / Denmark

2003-08 Solar Schools for hot countries (in planning phase)

2002-06 Leibniz-Rechenzentrum in Garching near Munich

1999-00 Large-scale roof structure with pavillions in Hanover (EXPODACH)

1998-02 Centre for Environment Related Communication (ZUK) in Osnabrück

1996-99 Administration building Hanover

1995-04 Housing development Solar City in Linz-Pichling, Austria

1994-03 Administration centre in Wiesbaden

1994-99 Housing development (400 dwelling units) Holzstrasse in Linz, Austria

1994-97 Filling station, rest and service facilities Lechwiesen

1994-96 Hall 26, Deutsche Messe AG in Hanover

1988-93 Congress Hotel in Linz, Austria

1988-93 Congress and exhibition centre in Linz, Austria

1989-92 Wikhahn Production halls and central energy plant in Eimbeckhausen

1987-91 Guest Building for the Youth Educational Centre in Windberg

1986-89 Two-family house in Pullach

1982-84 Building materials store in Lohhof

1982-84 House in Waldmohr

1979-82 Richter Housing development, Munich

1977-79 House, Regensburg

1966-68 Summer house on lake Chiemsee with R+R Then Berg