Thomas Herzog was born in Munich , Germany in 1941. He attended Grammar school in the same place.
In 1965, he got his Diploma in Architecture . He grew up in a family of medical doctors, and with a physicist father .After finishing the course in Architecture, , he worked as assistant in the Office of Peter C von Seiden, also in Munich. In 1971, he founded his own practice and since then, worked jointly with Verena Herzog-Loibl, Dipl.
-Designer. Some of their works included development of building systems for the use of renewable forms of energy; development of new building products, housing, administration, industrial and exhibition buildings.From 1971 to 1994, he worked in partnerships with Vladimir Nikolic, Michael Volz, and Hanns Jörg Schrade.He also became a Professor of Architecture in various universities from 1974 to 2004 , namely University of Kassel for ”Design and Product Development”, Technical University Darmstadt chair for “Design and Building Technology”, Technical University Munich .
He held other various positions such as chair for “Design and Building Construction”,- chair for “”Building Technology”, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Technische Universität München, visiting Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL), guest Professor at Tsinghua University Beijing, China, Graham Professor at University of Pennsylvania (PENN) and guest Professor at Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen DK.In 1996, Prof. Herzog became Chairman of 4th European Conference on Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning; German General Commissioner of 7th International Biennale of Architecture in Venice in 2001 . He also became Member of Scientific Comittee of XX. and XXI. World Congress of Architecture UIA in Beijing 1999 and Berlin 2002.Prof. Herzog is author and editor of a series of books including monographs in different languages .
How would you characterize this man and explain him to others? Thomas Herzog is described by many not just as a star architect but as “ ARCHITECT’S ARCHITECT” . He is also called as the living architect. “In the 30 years since founding his Munich office he has been researcher, inventor, designer and constructor of systems and material combinations, in the service of elegant, sustainable and energy-saving architecture, and long before the label green was invented. With his partner, Hanns Jorg Schrade, and sculptor wife Verena Herzog-Loibl, he has done more than pay lip service to multi-disciplinary teamwork, collaborating with scientists, engineers, artists and his own students, Europe-wide.
” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_/ai_82556268Hanover for EXPO 2000 is the most well-known of his work. Other works include Hall 26 (AR March 1997), Deutsche Messe AG administration tower (AR January 2001) and the Expodach itself (AR September 2000), a giant ribbed timber shell roof that epitomized EXPO’s theme of ‘Humankind — Nature — Technology’.Identify four buildings that he is most famous for.
The issue of eco-tech as art have been addressed by some architects in the past years .Eco-tech buildings are designed to acclimatize to environmental experimentation. Thomas Herzog’s architecture maybe be described as eco-tech..
Herzog interprets technology as a response to issues of “zoning, natural infrastructure, economics, site restraints, solar energy, and the thermal value of different materials.”Some of the buildings built by Herzog are as follows: 1. 1977 House in RegensburgThe house is owned by Thomas Herzog himself. The structure is diamond-shaped with a sloping roof made of glass .
Since the architect is known for his environmental architecture he detailed the design in an aesthetically effective form,” he created a passive solar dwelling using a layered house-within-a-house integration of an intermediate temperature zone.”Despite its high-tech appearance, it is comfortable because of the use of lean-to-timber beams. Other materials used were sloping roof; natural limestone floor tiles, stilts , and general light-weight construction materials .2.
Munich Olympic Stadium roofArchitect Thomas Herzog designed these stylish timber shells to shelter temporary displays at the World Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany. The canopy comprises 10 modular elements, each one measuring 40m x 40m, at a height of 20m above ground level. The elements are timber double-curved lattice shells, each supported on a central structure.The rainwater is collected and brought to the ground through each of the central structural supports which are cut from the Silver fir.
The trunks were cut in half lengthwise, to form each of the four corner columns. Seventy trees which were 50 meters were selected to form the structures.The lattice shells represent the tree canopy while the columns represent the simple vertical structure of the tree. The timber lattice allows daylight to penetrate below, just as it does in the forest.
3. Hanover Trade Fair, Hall 26 is located in Laatzen, Hanover, Hannover (Region), Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a fair or trade building which is a cable-supported structure. It is part of Expo 2000 building.
The building was designed by Archt. Thomas Herzog together with Andreas Keil.4. House in WaldmohrThe house has environmentally favorable features which becomes part of its aesthetic statement.
The design also includes the surrounding trees, laminated timber construction, mylar foil sun screens on the interior, planted roof, and verdant trellis stucture shading the elevations in the east and west.For the plan, Herzog used the “thermal onion” plan, an interpretation of the building within a building. The basic principle of this plan is to place the rooms that need the highest indoor temperatures in the center of the house. It is surrounded by rooms where the temperatures decrease proportionally as they get closer the exterior.
Herzog’s works are uniquely designed. His works live up to how his colleagues describe him, “architets’ architect.” The architect’s retrospective starts with the Berlin 1996 manifesto European Charter for Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning. Herzog was one of its chief instigators and the signatories included 29 influential European architects.
“Herzog was perhaps predestined to approach architecture from a scientist’s point of view. He is on the board of EUROSOLAR, at the Fraunhofer Society for Applied Research, and his preoccupations encompass timber — as a regenerative construction material, daylight — as the most energy saving method of illumination, and passive insulation systems. With Vladimir Nikolic he developed a Petrocarbona External Wall System (1973), and with Helmut Muller the partners put into production a Fischer Unit Construction Facade System (1975). A Daylight Grid System, for diffusing natural light, was developed with Christian Bartenbach for the glazed barrel vault of Linz E xhibition Centre.
Translucent Aerogel-Panels, of fluid wall insulation sandwiched between glass sheets, were used for a private house in 1994 (AR January 1995). Most recently, Herzog has developed an insulating hanging clay tile facade system, with Max Gerhaher.” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_/ai_82556268 References:http://www.
arch.mcgill.ca/prof/sijpkes/arch304/winter2001/plin8/passive_solar/herzog.htm2.
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