Alfred Jacoby is 2008-2009 Regnier Visiting Chair of Architecture
The Kansas State University College of Architecture,
Planning and Design is proud to announce that distinguished German architect
and educator Alfred Jacoby is the 2008-2009 Regnier Visiting Chair of the
Department of Architecture.
Professor Jacoby will have two sessions in residence at K-State. His initial
visit will be from January 24 to February 5, 2009, during which time he will
give a series of public lectures on the history of the European city. These
lectures will be held on January 27, January 29, February 3 and February 4 from
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The first three will be held in the Pierce Commons of
Seaton Hall, the fourth in Room 104 of Seaton Hall.
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.” He will also be spending additional time with Assistant
Professor Ulf Meyer’s fifth-year graduate studio working on the urban
transformation of the recently closed Tempelhof
Airport in Berlin, Germany.
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 Erdgenossische 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 so called “Reichskristallnacht” 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.
During his second visit later this semester, Professor Jacoby will again lecture at K-State as well as to design professionals in Kansas City.
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