Prof. Klaus Kada Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Arch. | Architekturbüro Klaus Kada | Graz/Austria

Klaus Kada, born in 1940, studied at the Polytechnic in Graz. His early working years were spent in architecture offices in Graz and Düsseldorf; meanwhile he set up an office partnership with Gernot Lauffer, which continued until 1985. From 1976 to 2002 he ran his own architecture office in Leibnitz, and another in Graz since 1988. In 1996 Prof. Kada established an architecture practice in Aachen, which has been run since 1999 in partnership with Gerhard Wittfeld under the name kadawittfeldarchitektur.

Since 1992 Prof. Kada has been president of EUROPAN Austria. From 1995 to 2006 he was a university professor in the Faculty of Architecture at Aachen Technical University (RWTH), where he taught building design and theory.

Prof. Kada has been an honorary member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) since 1996 and a member of the Architecture Academic Advisory Committee at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2002. From 2002 to 2004 Prof. Kada was chairman of the Salzburg Advisory Committee on Urban Design. In addition he has held numerous positions as a visiting professor and guest critic at various European colleges and universities, and has conducted workshops on a wide variety of architectural topics.

His architecture does not strive for expressive plasticity, or the drama of light and shade on the material surfaces of architectural volumes. Instead it takes the open space all around us and creates specific aggregations of forms that play on the diffusion between the indoors and the outdoors.

Current projects
2008:

Nuremberg Exhibition Centre, redesign and enlargement of the central entrance, Nuremberg/Germany
Textile Museum, Augsburg/Germany
Research and Technology Centre, Schwertberg/Upper Austria
Celtic Museum on the Glauberg/Germany adidas LACES, Herzogenaurach/Germany

2007:

Extension to the elementary school, Kuchl/Austria Old people's home, Altenmarkt/Austria

2006:

Pappas Salzburg/Austria Secondary modern school+BORG, Mittersill/Austria

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