The Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning and Design is proud to announce that distinguished German architect and educator Alfred Jacoby, 2008-2009 Regnier Visiting Chair, will soon return for his second visit.

Professor Jacoby will be in residence at K-State from February 28 to March 11, 2009. During this time he will continue his series of public lectures on the history of the European city. These lectures will occur on Tuesday, March 3, Thursday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 10 and will be held from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Pierce Commons of Seaton Hall.

Professor Jacoby will also be giving a special public lecture entitled “Cultural Exchange: Europe / USA” to be held in the K-State Student Union Little Theater at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 9, 2009. Thursday, March 12 will see Professor Jacoby present “Synagogues in Germany after 1945” at the Kansas City Design Center, Kansas City, Missouri.  This public lecture will be held at 5:30 p.m.

Concentrating his teaching time in the fifth-year graduate architectural studio, Professor Jacoby will be working particularly with the fifth-year studio of Assistant Professor John Eck whose student project is “The Berlin Wall Museum.”  Professor Jacoby will also continue visiting the other sections of the Graduate Architectural Design Studio.

Professor Jacoby is director of Dessau International Architecture (DIA) at Anhalt University of Applied Science, located at the famous Bauhaus of Dessau, Germany. He received a Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University, England, and his architectural degree from the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, (ETH), the Federal Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich. Professor Jacoby maintains an architectural practice located in Frankfurt am Main and is a member of Bund der Deutschen Architekten, (BDA) the German Association of Architects. His special interest lies in sacred architecture and the history and theory of architecture. Besides being a studio master at the DIA, he also teaches courses in architectural theory and in cultural theory. He organized an international conference at the DIA last June focusing upon the role of digital tools in understanding and designing cities. He has lectured in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, South America, Israel and China, and he was a 2007-2008 Ekdahl lecturer at the K-State College of Architecture, Planning and Design.

His professional work on contemporary synagogues has been exhibited in countries throughout the world including the Biennale of Venice in 1992. He is a permanent member of the German Council for Conserving Monuments in the Federal State of Hessen, Germany.  Professor Jacoby will present a number of his projects including his noteworthy reestablishment of the synagogue of Kassel. The original synagogue fell victim to the pogrom on November 9, 1938. Other projects include synagogues at Darmstadt, Heidelberg, Chemnitz and Aachen. Many of these projects stem from Jewish immigration to Germany from former Communist countries after the reunification of Germany and independence of Eastern European countries. His work sensitively joins contemporary spirit with Jewish tradition.  His projects have been featured in journals such as Architectural Review, World Architecture, Bauwelt, Interior Design and Kunst und Kirche.

The Victor L. Regnier Visiting Faculty Chair in Architecture at Kansas State University, funded by the Victor and Helen Regnier Family Foundation of Mission, Kansas, was established in 2003 through the extraordinary generosity of his children, Victor A. Regnier, Robert D. Regnier, and Catherine M. Regnier, who sought to enrich the educational experience of Kansas State University architecture students by exposing them to the finest architects from around the world.

For more information, contact:
Peter Magyar, 785.532.5953
Donald Watts, 785.532.1128
CAPD@ksu.edu, 785.532.1090