Christoph Kohl is an architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 and urban planner.

Biography

After his studies of architecture at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, Austria, he finished his thesis at the IUAV of the University of Venice, Italy, in 1988. Since 1993, he runs an architectural office in partnership with Rob Krier in Berlin, Germany. Since June 2010 he is partner and director of K · K Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH / Berlin, Germany and of Christoph Kohl Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH / Berlin, Germany.

The Berlin-based firm of Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl Architekten is among the representatives of a movement in architecture and urban design that builds on the traditions of the European city. They use traditional methods to create contemporary reconstruction of the urban fabric. Since their participation in the construction and coordination of Kirchsteigfeld, a planning project near Potsdam, Germany, that was built according to their urban design proposal, Rob Krier and Christoph Kohl have been responsible for the design of planning projects in different European countries, with a focus on the Netherlands: De Resident in The Hague (The Netherlands), Noorderhof in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Meander in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), the new town of Brandevoort

Brandevoort

The district of Brandevoort lies south-west of the city centre of Helmond, between Helmond, Mierlo, Geldrop and Nuenen. This area has been designated by the government as a growth area . Building on this former farm land started around 1997 and will continue until completed or full build-out...

 near Helmond (The Netherlands), Slot Haverleij, ’s-Hertogenbosch (The Netherlands) and Citadel Broekpolder in Beverwijk-Heemskerk (The Netherlands).

Works

• Beverwijk-Heemskerk
  Beverwijk
  Beverwijk is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The town is located about northwest of Amsterdam in the Randstad metropolitan area, north of the North Sea Canal very close to the North Sea coast...
  
  , NL: Citadel Broekpolder (new city center development, 2001–2008)
• ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL: Slot Haverleij (new village; since 1998)
• Helmond
  Helmond
  Helmond is a municipality and a city in the province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands.- Quarters and Neighbourhoods :*Quarter 11 Inner City**Neighbourhood 0 Centrum**Neighbourhood 2 Leonardus**Neighbourhood 3 Heipoort...
  
  , NL: Brandevoort
  Brandevoort
  The district of Brandevoort lies south-west of the city centre of Helmond, between Helmond, Mierlo, Geldrop and Nuenen. This area has been designated by the government as a growth area . Building on this former farm land started around 1997 and will continue until completed or full build-out...
  
   (new town; since 1996)
• Amsterdam
  Amsterdam
  Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
  
  , NL: Meander (residential development; 1995−2006)
• Amsterdam
  Amsterdam
  Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
  
  , NL: Noorderhof (high-density residential quarter; 1995−1999)
• Potsdam
  Potsdam
  Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. It is situated on the River Havel, southwest of Berlin city centre....
  
  , D: Kirchsteigfeld (new district; 1992−1997)
• Den Haag, NL: De Resident (inner-city service and administrative centre; 1989−2001)

Publications

• Rob Krier, Christoph Kohl: Town Spaces. Contemporary Interpretations in Traditional Urbanism, Krier · Kohl · Architects. Birkhäuser Basel/Berlin/Boston 2003/2006. ISBN 3764369426 (Hardcover), ISBN 3764375582 (Paperback).
• Rob Krier, Christoph Kohl: Potsdam Kirchsteigfeld − Eine Stadt entsteht. awf-verlag, 1997. ISBN 3933093007.
• Rob Krier, Christoph Kohl: The making of a Town: Potsdam-Kirchsteigfeld. Papadakis Publishers, 1999. ISBN 1-901092-15-1

External links

• K · K Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH