Prof. Benedikt Stahl
Architecture and Urban Space
Department of Architecture
Phone: 02222-93211406
Biography
Alanus University
Currently // Dean, Department of Architecture
2016 // Acting Vice-Rector (1 semester)
Since 2015 // Member of the Foundation Council
Since 2006 // Member of the Senate
2010-2013 // Head of the Senate
Since 2006 // Dean, Department of Architecture
2007-2009 // Head of the Campus II Building Committee
Since 2006 // Professorship, Architecture and Urban Space
Outside Alanus University
Currently // Founding partner at Atelier Fritschi + Stahl, Architecture and Urban Space, Düsseldorf since 1991
Since 2011 // on several urban design advisory boards, in Wuppertal (since 2011), Neuss (since 2014), Bonn (since 2015)
2002-2006 // Interior construction, Department of Interior Architecture, FH Lippe and Höxter, Detmold
1990-2002 // at FH Düsseldorf (PBSA), Head of the Space Laboratory, Department of Architecture, guest seminars at TU Vienna
Since 1995 // in the Deutscher Werkbund, since 2000 member of the academic advisory board of the WB Akademie NW, since 2015 member of the management of the WB Akademie NW
1990 // York Artist Scholarship of the City of Düsseldorf
1983-1989 // at FH Höxter – (until 1984) and FH Düsseldorf (PBSA), diploma thesis with distinction
1980-1982 // Albrecht Dürer School Düsseldorf, FOS for Design and Technology
1978-1980 // apprenticeship as architectural draughtsman in Olpe
1966-1978 // primary education and secondary school in Olpe
1960 // born in Olpe
Research Focus
Architecture and urban space, foundational design teaching, the relationship between bodily space and architectural space, freehand drawing, spatial interventions
Awards and Honors
2006 // “Award for Good Buildings 2006,” BDA Düsseldorf, Audience Award and commendation for auditorium and school extension, Düsseldorf
2006 // “Building within Existing Structures,” design award of the Wüstenrot Foundation, shortlisted for the renovation of a 1950s housing complex, Duisburg
2005 // “German Façade Award 2005,” Brillux GmbH, Münster
2005 // 1st prize ranking for residential and commercial building, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim,
2005 // “German Façade Award 2005,” Brillux GmbH, Münster
2005 // 1st prize ranking for the renovation of a 1950s housing complex, Duisburg
2005 // “LückenSchluss” award for good use of infill sites, Chamber of Architects NW, special prize for 2 residential houses in the town center, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
2000 // “Housing Construction in Germany” 2000, design award of the Wüstenrot Foundation, honorable mention for 14 townhouses, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
2000 // “Prix Rhénan d’Architecture 2000,” Mention Spéciale “Electricité de Strassbourg” for Haus El Mehallawi, Düsseldorf-Mörsenbroich
1999 // “Future Living,” Federal Association of the German Cement Industry, award for 14 townhouses, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
1999 // “Concrete Architecture Award,” Federal Association of the German Cement Industry, honorable mention for the design of the Rhine embankment, Düsseldorf
1998 // “German Urban Design Award,” Walter Hesselbach Award of BfG-Bank AG for the design of the Rhine embankment with Apollo Varieté Theater, Düsseldorf
1997 // “Award for Good Buildings,” BDA Prize Düsseldorf for the design of the Rhine embankment, Düsseldorf
1997 // “Design of Public Squares,” DAM Frankfurt and Deutsche Bank AG, 1st prize ranking for Burgplatz, Düsseldorf
1994 // “Excellence on the Waterfront,” Waterfront Center Washington, annual award, top honor for the Rhine embankment planning, Düsseldorf
Projects
2016 // District heating corridor Rhine-Ruhr, design concept and structures
2016 // Single-family house B in Elsdorf, design
2014 // Kampstraße Dortmund. Detailed planning of the redesign. Realization 2016/17
2013 // Development near St. Petri, Dortmund. Realization 2014
2013 // Sternbergcarrée Kassel, residential construction. Planning and realization 2014/15
2013 // Oberhausen pumping station, competition 1st prize, planning since then.
2013 // Postwiese urban building block, Leichlingen. Competition 1st prize. Implementation 2013/14
2010/12 // Daycare center and youth center, Neuss Allerheiligen
2008/09 // Racecourse building, Neuss racecourse with citizens’ hall, restaurant facilities and administrative rooms
2006/09 // Residential and commercial buildings on Krefelderstraße in Neuss
2007/08 // Tulpenstraße daycare center, Neuss
2004 // “Haus am Pegel” in Neuss harbor, office complex conversion and new construction, completed 2006
2002 // Light master plan for Düsseldorf city center, expert review procedure 1st prize, with Dinnebier-Knappschneider, lighting designers
2002 // “Living on the Neighborhood Square,” townhouses Heinrich-Könn Straße Düsseldorf-Gerresheim, completed 2006
2000 // School and auditorium Theodor-Litt-Straße Düsseldorf-Urdenbach, assembly hall with 12 classrooms, completed 2004
1998 // Competition Boulevard Kampstraße / Brüderweg Dortmund, 1st prize, execution 1st phase 2001
1997 // City of Pulheim, framework and master planning “Pulheim Town Center 2010”, in collaboration with Peter Degen and Ammann-Dejosé
1996 // “Roncalli’s Apollo Varieté” Düsseldorf, theater, museum and gastronomy under the Rheinknie Bridge, completed 1997
1995 // “Inselpark Gronau”, urban planning expert review procedure, 1st prize, execution of canal system LAGA 2003
1994 // “Architectural Visions for Europe” living and working, joint project with Hans-Ullrich Bitsch, Metteo Thun, Romuald Loegler, Dominique Perrault, Sir Norman Foster, Hans Hollein
1993 // Urban master planning Rheine, Westphalia, in cooperation with J.P. Kleihues, H. Pfeiffer, Ammann-Dejozé
1991 // Urban design ideas and implementation competition, redesign of the Rhine embankment with focus on Burgplatz, Düsseldorf, (with Niklaus Fritschi) 1st prize, completed 1995
Exhibitions
2016 and 2015 // Guest at the old Liesegang factory, Düsseldorf, exhibition of drawings, 2016 and 2015
2008 // “Building within Existing Structures,” traveling exhibition of the Wüstenrot Foundation, conversion of a 1950s housing estate in Duisburg, House of Architecture AKNW Düsseldorf
2007 // “LückenSchluss!” award for good use of infill sites, 2 single-family houses in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim, Haus der Architekten AKNW Düsseldorf,
2007 // “Great Gerresheim Art Exhibition,” group exhibition, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
2007 // “Images from the Way of St. James,” Benedikt Stahl, travel sketches, Düsseldorf-Gerresheim City Library
2005 // Awarded – Retail architecture from NRW“Corporate Architecture, ALDI market Pulheim, Aedes East Berlin
2005 // “Industrial Architecture in Gronau,” Benedikt Stahl, hand drawings, Andreas Wiese, photography, FSB Gronau Projects, WZG Gronau
2004 // “Light Master Plan Düsseldorf”, Düsseldorf City Hall
2004 // “Exemplary Retail Architecture in NRW”, ALDI market Pulheim, Stilwerk Düsseldorf
2004 // “21st century houses” residential project Bergstraße, joint project with Dominique Perrault, Baumschlager-Eberle, BRT, Kranichstein Darmstadt
1998 // “The Reconquest of Europe“, European Public Space 1850-1997, Centre de Cultura Contemporània Barcelona
1997 // “Award for Good Buildings”, exhibition for the BDA Prize Düsseldorf, Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf
1997 // “Four Düsseldorf Architects,” group exhibition for Designer’s Saturday, Alte Paketpost Düsseldorf
1996 // “Rhine Embankment Promenade and Burgplatz Düsseldorf”, German Architecture Museum Frankfurt
1996 // “Architectual Visions for Europe”, joint project with Hans Hollein, Sir Norman Foster, Dominique Perrault, Romuald Loegler, Matteo Thun, Hans-Ullrich Bitsch, Venice Architecture Biennale
1996 // “Design of Public Squares”, for the award ceremony for Burgplatz Düsseldorf, DAZ German Architecture Center, Berlin
1996 // “Architecture in Düsseldorf Harbor”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1996 // “EXHIBITION”, free works by the teaching staff of FHD, Ballhaus Düsseldorf
1995 // “The city returns to the Rhine”, exhibition for the opening of the Rhine embankment promenade Düsseldorf, city information office
1995 // “Architectural Visions for Europe”, living and working in Düsseldorf Harbor, joint project with Hans Hollein, Sir Norman Foster, Dominique Perrault, Romuald Loegler, Matteo Thun, Hans-Ullrich Bitsch, Schloss Bellvue Berlin, Design Center Warsaw, Deutsches Museum Munich, Salle d’expo, La defense, Paris
1994 // “Residential Projects” 14 townhouses in Gerresheim, group exhibition Düsseldorf City Hall
1991 // “Ballhaus” light installations, annual exhibition of the Department of Architecture FHD, (with N.Fritschi)
Publications
Questions about the Bauhaus, Rhein Exklusiv 3/16
Werkbund Academy series issue 16, introduction
Werkbund Academy series issue 13, Sketching as suggesting – feeling – circling ideas
Werkbund Academy series issue 9, The city as stage, fragments of thought, observations, travel fragments
Werkbund Academy series issue 7, The threshold experience, an architectural primal phenomenon
Arnhem on the Rhine, Een verkenning van de Arnhemse rivierzone, “Een dagje Arnhem”, CASA Arnhem
In Future Living…, visions, concepts, typologies, ISBN 3-939349-02-X
Yearbooks of FH Lippe and Höxter 2004-2006, Interior construction, Interior Architecture
Industrial Architecture in Gronau, texts, documents, photos and sketches on selected examples, writings from the Gronau City Archive, volume 12
“Beautiful new harbor world” Überblick 11/98 (article “Architectural Visions for Europe”)
Factory Outlet Center in Gronau, Landwirtschaftliches Wochenblatt Westfalen-Lippe 48/98
“Variety theater under the bridge”, A & B Architektura & Biznes, Warsaw, issue 1/1997, (article: Roncalli’s Apollo Varieté Düsseldorf) “Award for Good Buildings”, exhibition catalog for the BDA Prize Düsseldorf 1997
“Shopping is being spelled anew”
“Roncalli’s Apollo Varieté in Düsseldorf”, First class entertainement 1996
“Light spaces”, Edison Journal for Lighting Planning + Design 3/96, (article Hafenbar Bató Düsseldorf)
“Century project Rhine embankment tunnel Düsseldorf”, ed. Barbara Kerpen, Artcolor Verlag 1995
“Paths”, Daidalos issue 47, Bertelsmann Verlag 1993, (article: Light path in Düsseldorf, with Niklaus Fritschi)
also numerous texts and contributions in the annual magazine “mag” of the Department of Architecture, Alanus University
and various publications in the daily press and university magazines
Jury Activities
2017 // Redesign of the harbor promenade, Münser
2015 // New learning and event center for EBZ in Bochum
2014 // Hafentor Münster
2013 // Open space planning and architectural competition for Lennepark and pedestrian bridge in Altena
2012 // Landscape architecture competition Lennepromenade Plettenberg
2012 // Landscape architecture competition Lennepromenade Iserlohn-Letmathe
2011 // DHPG building Bonn
2010 // Jury BDA Prize Wuppertal
2010 // New parish center and daycare center St. Rochuns, Cologne
2008 // New inter-company vocational training and education center for the district craftsmen’s association in Mönchengladbach
2008 // Rhine embankment Wesseling
2007 // Rhine Boulevard Cologne
2007 // New administrative center for police and tax office in Geldern
2007 // Competition Ehrenzeller Platz in Essen-Altendorf
