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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES |
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Karolin Schmidbaur, born 1967 in Würzburg, Germany, was raised and educated in Munich. She studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and received her diploma in 1992. Since 1992 she has been practicing Architecture internationally with COOP HIMMELB(L)AU in their offices in Vienna, Austria; Guadalajara, México; and Los Angeles, California. Since 1993 she has been based in Los Angeles, California. She is a Licensed Architect in Germany since 1995.
In 1996, she was made a Partner of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU. Currently Karolin Schmidbaur is design and managing partner of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU Vienna and also the director of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU’s Los Angeles, California office.
Projects at COOP HIMMELB(L)AU include the Groningen Museum East Pavilion, the Netherlands, completed in 1994; the JVC Urban Entertainment Center in Guadalajara, México; and most recently the Central Los Angeles Area High School #9 for visual and performing arts in downtown Los Angeles, California, completed in 2008. Among studies and competitions are mixed use projects all over the world, a master plan for an Urban Development downtown Los Angeles, California, and contributions to the formulation of new museum concepts such as the Broad Art Museum in Lansing, Michigan, and the Randers Art Museum in Randers, Denmark.
Karolin Schmidbaur has taught design studio at the University of Southern California (1997-1998) and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) from 1998 to 1999. |
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