Josef Paul Kleihues (11 June 1933, Rheine – 13 August 2004, Berlin) was a Germanarchitect, most notable for his decades long contributions to the "critical reconstruction" ofBerlin. His design approach has been described as "poetic rationalist".[1]
Born in 1933 inRheine, he studied architecture at theUniversity of Stuttgart (1955–57) andTechnische Universität Berlin (1957–59).
After graduation, Kleihues spent one year at theÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After having worked in the architectural practice of Peter Poelzig inWest Berlin, in 1962 he founded his own practice with Hans Heinrich Moldenschardt.[1]
In 1971 Kleihues designed "Block 270", a residential building inBerlin-Wedding. This became an important work which re-established the Berlin block plan, a traditional typology, that stood in opposition to contemporary urban planning. As professor at theTU Dortmund University from 1973[1] and director of theInternational Building Exhibition Berlin (IBA) between 1979 and 1987, Kleihues propagated the concept of urban "critical reconstruction".[2]
He was a visiting professor at Cornell University during fall 1975. From 1986 to 1991 he held the Irwin S. Chanin Distinguished International Professorship at The Cooper Union's School of Architecture. In 1989 his work was presented in Joseph Paul Kleihues:The Museum Projects, an exhibition and an accompanying catalog (Rizzoli, 1989) at The Cooper Union.[3]
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 theHamburger Bahnhof, a 19th-century railway station, and theMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.[1] He also chaired the jury that awardedDaniel Libeskind the commission to build theJewish Museum Berlin.[4]
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