Karl-Heinz Petzinka

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Born in Bocholt, Petzinka studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen from 1976 and graduated in 1982 with the academic degree of Diplom-Ingenieur.{{cite news | title=Petzinka zum neuen Rektor der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf gewählt | newspaper=Westdeutsche Zeitung | date=24 April 2017 | url=https://www.wz.de/nrw/duesseldorf/kultur/petzinka-zum-neuen-rektor-der-kunstakademie-duesseldorf-gewaehlt_aid-27074279 | language=de | access-date=18 September 2021}} In 1981, he received the North Rhine-Westphalia state's Förderpreis for young artists in the field of architecture.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.monopol-magazin.de/petzinka-zum-neuen-rektor-der-kunstakademie-duesseldorf-gew%C3%A4hlt |title=Nachfolger von Rita McBride / Petzinka zum neuen Rektor der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf gewählt |magazine=Monoplo |date=25 April 2017|access-date=10 September 2021 |language=de | agency = dpa}} After his first professional years 1982–1983 as a freelance architect in the office of O. M. Ungers in Cologne, he worked as an assistant to {{ill|Wolfgang Döring (architect)|de|Wolfgang Döring (Architekt)|lt=Wolfgang Döring}} at the RWTH Aachen from 1983 to 1985. From 1986 to 1987, he was a scholarship holder of the Villa Massimo in the architecture category. From 1988, Petzinka taught design at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, and in 1994 he was appointed professor in the Department of Design and Building Technology at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he taught until 2007. During this time, Petzinka also held guest professorships at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at RWTH Aachen.{{cite book | last1=Giebeler | first1=G. | last2=Fisch | first2=R. | last3=Krause | first3=H. | last4=Musso | first4=F. | last5=Petzinka | first5=K.H. | last6=Rudolphi | first6=A. | title=Atlas Sanierung: Instandhaltung, Umbau, Ergänzung | publisher=Birkhäuser | series=Detail Atlas | year=2012 | isbn=978-3-0346-1434-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KV7TAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT278 | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021 | page=278}}{{cite web | title=Düsseldorf: Petzinka baut die "Geniebude" um | website=RP ONLINE | date=16 February 2018 | url=https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/kultur/petzinka-baut-die-geniebude-um_aid-18942581 | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}} At the same time, he founded the Petzinka Pink Architekten studio together with Thomas Pink in 1994, with offices in Düsseldorf and Berlin.

The conversion of the {{ill|Jahrhunderthalle, Bochum|de|Jahrhunderthalle (Bochum)|lt=Jahrhunderthalle}} in Bochum in 2002/03 is one of the projects in which this concept – in this case the addition of technological and reactivating elements to the historical building fabric and building construction – was implemented. At the same time, the Jahrhunderthalle marks the opening of a new field of work in Petzinka's oeuvre with the conversion of historic buildings to a new use. In October 2004, Petzinka took over as chairman of the management of the real estate company {{Ill|THS Wohnen|de}} with headquarters in the converted {{Ill|Zeche Nordstern|de}} in Gelsenkirchen.{{cite web | title=Der große Wurf | date=19 July 2018 | url=https://eiskellerberg.tv/2018/07/19/der-grosse-wurf/ | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}} Petzinka left the company in November 2011.{{cite web |first=Antje |last=Höning | title=Düsseldorf: Wohnkonzerne beurlauben Chef | website=RP ONLINE | date=29 July 2011 | url=https://rp-online.de/wirtschaft/wohnkonzerne-beurlauben-chef_aid-13359297 | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}}

In 2007, Petzina was appointed as one of four program directors of the Ruhr.2010 project for the Ruhr being European Capital of Culture in 2010. He was responsible for the sector "City of Possibilities" which included architecture, urban development and visual arts.{{cite web |url=http://www.rheinische-art.de/cms/topics/karl-heinz-petzinka-ist-neuer-direktor-kunstakademie-duesseldorf.php |title=Neuer Rektor | website = rheinische-art.de | language = de |access-date=10 September 2021}}{{cite web | last=Norbisrath | first=Gudrun | title=Grönemeyer schreibt eine Hymne auf das Ruhrgebiet | website=derwesten.de | url=https://www.derwesten.de/kultur/groenemeyer-schreibt-eine-hymne-auf-das-ruhrgebiet-id60883.html | access-date=18 September 2021}}

Since 2008, he has been professor of the Baukunst class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He also acts as an adjudicator at national and international level. Since 2012, he has also held a visiting professorship at the Austral University of Chile on the topics of systems, urban planning and planning in non-European countries. On 24 April 2017, Petzinka became the fourth architect to be elected Rector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He took office on 1 August 2017 for a term of four years.

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Petzinka's best-known architectural projects include the Stadttor, a skysrcaper in Düsseldorf that won the MIPIM award, the {{ill|Konrad-Adenauer-Haus|de|Konrad-Adenauer-Haus (Berlin)}} built in Berlin as the federal headquarter of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), the Representation of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to the Federal Government in Berlin, and the conversion of the Jahrhunderthalle in Bochum into a venue for the Ruhrtriennale festival.{{cite news | last = Kupfer | first = Olaf | title=Luxus-Maßnahme? Laschet lässt Staatskanzlei in Düsseldorf modernisieren | newspaper = Westdeutsche Zeitung | date=8 November 2018 | url=https://www.wz.de/nrw/luxus-massnahme-laschet-laesst-staatskanzlei-in-duesseldorf-modernisieren_aid-34371725 | language=de | access-date=18 September 2021}}

Petzinka has also planned and realised buildings in the commercial, public and administrative sectors as well as private residences. In Gelsenkirchen, he was involved in the construction of the {{ill|Hercules of Gelsenkirchen|de|Herkules von Gelsenkirchen}},{{cite web | last=Müller | first=Bertram | title=Herkules auf dem Zechenturm | website=RP ONLINE | date=16 December 2010 | url=https://rp-online.de/kultur/herkules-auf-dem-zechenturm_aid-12450525 | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}} the Nordstern Video Art Centre Goetz Collection,{{cite web | title=Sammlung Goetz: Videokunst im Nordsternturm | website=Handelsblatt | date=28 January 2011 | url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/arts_und_style/kunstmarkt/sammlung-goetz-videokunst-im-nordsternturm/3818030.html | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}} the planning of the urban development project Stadtquartier am Schloß Horst,{{cite news | title=Neues Wohnen für Senioren | website=DIE WELT | date=15 November 2011 | url=https://www.welt.de/print-wams/article134286/Neues-Wohnen-fuer-Senioren.html | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}} and the revitalization of both the workshop building of the Zeche Nordstern{{cite web | title=Ruhr 2010: Zeche Nordstern Gelsenkirchen | website=Der Spiegel | date=8 January 2010 | url=https://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/ruhr-2010-zeche-nordstern-gelsenkirchen-fotostrecke-50801.html | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}} and of the Rote Halle in Düsseldorf.{{cite web | title=Rote Halle, Düsseldorf | website=pinkarchitektur | date=4 February 2021 | url=https://pinkarchitektur.de/projekt/rote-halle-duesseldorf/ | language=de | access-date=23 September 2021}}

• Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz, Jürgen Volkwein, Florian Lang: Technische Gebäudeausstattung[https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7344626816 Technische Gebäudeausstattung] on WorldCat In Giebeler, Fisch, Krause, Musso, Petzinka, Rudolphi: "Atlas Sanierung. Instandhaltung, Umbau, Ergänzung" Birkhäuser, Basel 2008, {{ISBN|978-3-7643-8874-4}}.
• Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Bernhard Lenz: Planen und Bauen in Lebenszyklen In Energieatlas – Nachhaltige Architektur; Birkhäuser, Basel 2007, {{ISBN|3-7643-8385-2}}.
• {{cite book | last=Busmann | first=Johannes | title=Jahrhunderthalle Bochum – Montagehalle für Kunst | publisher=Müller und Busmann | publication-place=Wuppertal | year=2003 | isbn=978-3-928766-57-9 | oclc=76584681 | language=de}}
• Karl-Heinz Petzinka, Thomas Pink, Johannes Busmann: Technologische Architektur; Birkhäuser, Basel 2004, {{ISBN|3-7643-0373-5}}.

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