1. Christoph Ingenhoven was born in Dusseldorf in 1960 and studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen from 1978 to 1984 and from 1980 to 1981 at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf with Hans Hollein.
11 Facts About Christoph Ingenhoven
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In 1985, Christoph Ingenhoven founded the architecture office ingenhoven architecst in Dusseldorf, which was acquired by BKW Energie in 2019.
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Christoph Ingenhoven received international recognition in 1997 with the design of one of the world's first ecological high-rise buildings, the RWE Tower in Essen.
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Before, in 1991, the then 31-year-old Ingenhoven received a great deal of attention when he and his team competed in the international competition for the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt and shared jury prize with Norman Foster.
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Christoph Ingenhoven is a founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council and the Bundesstiftung Baukultur, a federal foundation for architectural culture in Germany.
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Christoph Ingenhoven is member of the International Academy of Architecture.
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Christoph Ingenhoven pursues an approach to sustainable architecture that strives for the highest ecological, architectural and artistic goals.
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Christoph Ingenhoven calls his concept of holistic, interdisciplinary, sustainable architecture supergreen.
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Christoph Ingenhoven's works received numerous national and international awards and recognitions, including the Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction Gold for Stuttgart Main Station and the International High-Rise Award for 1 Bligh in Sydney.
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Christoph Ingenhoven was recipient of Europe's highest architecture award in 2022, the European Prize for Architecture.
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In 2023, Christoph Ingenhoven has been awarded the Golden Flower, Germany's oldest environmental prize, which has been awarded biennally since 1967.