Jörg Friedrich (born 1951 in Erfurt) is a German architect.
He received his degree as an architect in 1978 at the University of Stuttgart. Following collaboration with the architects, Peter Poelzig and Joachim Schürmann in their offices in Berlin and Cologne, he became independent in 1980 with an office in Venice, together with Bernd Sammek, Jürgen Böge and Ingeborg Lindner. Following his work together with Luitpold Frommel at the Max Planck Institute in Rome 1984/85, Jörg Friedrich established the international office of architecture, pfp-architects, with its headquarters in Hamburg, later also with offices in Genoa and Rome. Jörg Friedrich assumed the position of lecturer at the History of Arts Institutes at the Universities of Hamburg (1983-1986), of Genoa, of Rome and of Wuppertal. In the year 2005 he became a member of the Evaluation Commission at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. From 1988 until 2000 as Professor in Hamburg Jörg Friedrich taught courses in Drafting and the History of Architecture. He received an offer of a professorship in 1992 at the RWTH in Aachen and chaired the departments of Structural Concepts and the Theory of Architecture in 2000 at the Leibniz University in Hanover. Jörg Friedrich was Chairman of the Department of Architecture at the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg from 1994 to 1998 where he is yet a member and where he was appointed to the “Committee of the Fritz Schumacher Award” in Hamburg in 2006. He is a member of the “Dramaturgical Society” as well as of the “Foundation Architectural Art” in Berlin. In 2013 he was elected Dean of the Leibniz University.
2013: Cultural Power Station, central Dresden
2012: Congress Center, Padua
2012: Main-Franconia Theater, Würzburg
2011: Theater, Large Auditorium and Foyer, Düsseldorf
2010: New Theater Building, Gütersloh
2010: Construction of New Medical Clinics in Darmstadt’s Hospital Center, including Memorial Site for Former Liberal Synagogue, Darmstadt
2010: Staatstheater - Schauspielhaus redevelopment, Nuremberg
2008: Competency Center of the Chamber of Handcraftsmanship, Harburg – Hamburg
2008: Residential Construction “Bavaria Grounds”, St. Pauli, Hamburg
2006: Residential Building at Kaiser Quay in Harbour City, Hamburg
2003: Sports Center and Residential Area in the Lotharinger Strasse, Münster
2003: Theater Erfurt
2002: Canteen and Auditorium Maximum, Central University Area, Flensburg
1998: Officers’ Army Training Academy, Sports Center, Renovation Measures, Dresden
1997: Nursing Center, Kindergarten and Senior Residence Facilities in „St. Loyen”, Lemgo
1993: Main Administration Building of the City Works, Witten, Westphalia
2010 BDA Hamburg Prize for Architecture / 1. Prize for the Elbe Campus, Chamber of Handcraftsmanship Hamburg
2008 BDA Hamburg Prize for Architecture / 3. Prize for residential construction on the Bavaria grounds
2008 BDA Hamburg Prize for Architecture 2008 in acknowledgement of residential construction in the “Harbor City” at the Kaiser Quay
2008 1. Prize for the Center of Competency, Chamber of Handcraftsmanship Hamburg (Elbe Campus), Yearbook “Architecture in Hamburg”, distinguished projects 1989-2008
2007 Architectural and Engineering Association, Hamburg: Building of the Year 2007, award for residential construction at the Bavaria site
2007 Foundation award 2007 in recognition of the “Living City” project for the Park Terrace in Göhren, Thuringia
2004 Thüringen State Prize for Architecture and Urban Design in recognition of the Opera / Theater in Erfurt
2000 Architecture – Art Award, New Saxony Art Association, Dresden
1997 “Fine Building Distinction” for the administration building in Witten
1989 Architecture Prize Recklinghausen for Justice Training Academy, North Rhine-Westphalia
1987 Federal Republic of Germany Award
1986 The City of Hamburg’s Promotion Prize “Fritz Schumacher Award”
1984 North Rhine Westphalian Promotion Prize for Young Artists
2007 German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt: New Building Sites, Building in the New Federal States
2003 Hamburg, Museum of the History of Hamburg, “The Dream of the City on the Sea” (curator)
2003 Architectural Summer in Hamburg
2004 Hanover, A Radical City Vision, Kestner Society
2005 German Architecture Museum, ”Giuseppe Terragni – Models of a Rational Architecture” (curator)
2002 Contribution made to the Venice Biennale of Architecture
2001 Erfurt, Vision of a Theater
1998 Aachen: A New Gallery for the Ludwig Collection, Jörg Friedrich: Drafts and Drawings
1997 Rotterdam: Gallery of the Netherlands’ Architectural Institute
1994 Hamburg, Architecture Gallery Renate Kammer, Jörg Friedrich: Drafts and Projects
1987 Rome: Architecture Gallery SALA UNO, Jörg Friedrich: 5 Projects
Architecture in Hamburg, Yearbook, Junius Publishing Company, Hamburg (1989, 92-95, 97, 99, 2002–04, 06, 08, 11-12)
AIT, Architecture, Interior Design, Technical Refinement, Alexander Koch, Berlin 1999, 2012
Jörg Friedrich – “Theaters”, Ivana Paonessa, Jovis Publishing House, Berlin 2011
The New Theater Nuremberg, Henschel Publishing Company, Leipzig 2010
An Adornment of our City, Martin Frenzel, Justus von Liebig Publishers, Darmstadt 2008
Town Houses, Sybille Kramer, Braun Publishing House, Switzerland 2008
Plans, Projects, Buildings, Jörn Walter, Braun Publishing House, Switzerland 2005
FLARE, Architectural Lighting Magazine, n°38, Editrice Habitat, Milan 2005
The Erfurt Theater, A Space for Visions, Guy Montavon, Erfurt Theater, 2004
The World of Construction 1996, 2004
ARC – HH, Architecture Made in Hamburg, Dirk Meyhöfer, Junius Publishing Company, Hamburg 2003
Radical City Vision, Urban Planning Models for Hanover, Niggli Publishing Company 2002
Giuseppe Terragni, Models of a Rational Architecture, Niggli Publishing Company, 1999
Luigi Snozzi, Urban Development, Niggli Publishing Company, 1997
L’architettura della democrazia (Architecture in a Democracy); ABITARE, Abitrare Segesta Publishers, Milan 1995
Witten’s main Administration Building, Department of Works, Jörg Friedrich, Ingeborg Flagge, Ernst and Son, Berlin 1994
CUBE, The Hamburg Magazine for Architecture, Modern Living and Style, b1 Communication GmbH, Düsseldorf
