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Kleihues + Kleihues : Contemporary Architect Practice, Germany

Josef Paul Kleihues – Key Projects

Key Building Projects by Architekturbüro Kleihues + Kleihues, alphabetical:

Internatonales Bau Ausstellung, Berlin, Germany
Date built: 1980’s
IBA Neubau – controlled by J.P.Kleihues
IBA Altbau – controlled by H.W.Hämer

Mostly Rationalist style buildings

photo © Adrian Welch

IBA Housing

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Date built: 1996
Located at 220 East Chicago Avenue

Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Date built: 1972

Museum of Prehistory, Frankfurt, Germany
Dates built: 1980–86

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Location:Berlin, Germany ‘

Josef Paul Kleihues – Practice Information

Kleihues + Kleihues Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH studio based in Berlin and Dülmen-Rorup, both in Germany

Architekturbüro Kleihues + Kleihues : Berlin Architects

Josef Paul was born in 1933, Rheine, and died in 2004, Berlin

Josef Paul founded his own architecture practice in 1962 with Hans Heinrich Moldenschardt.

Education

University of Stuttgart
1955-57
Architecture

Berlin Institute of Technology
1957-59
Architecture

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1960

Kleihues received international recognition for several museum projects, including for the Sprengel Museum in Hanover (1972) and the Museum of Prehistory in Frankfurt (1980–86). He continued designing museums, including the Civic Gallery and Lütze Museum in Sindelfingen (1987–90), the Berlin Museum of Contemporary Art, an adaptive reuse of the Hamburger Bahnhof, a 19th-century railway station, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.