The internationally active architect Heike Hanada was born in Hoya/Weser, Germany in 1964. She received her diploma in Architecture from the University of the Arts in Berlin in 1991, after which she was awarded a DAAD scholarship to pursue her master’s degree under Prof. Hidetoshi Ohno at the University of Tokyo. In 1994 Hanada founded HANADA+ in Tokyo. From 1999 to 2006 she worked as an associate researcher under Prof. Karl-Heinz Schmitz in the Faculty of Architecture at the Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar. In 2007 she founded the architectural design office heike hanada_laboratory of art and architecture. In 2010 she was appointed professor of Fundamentals of Design in the department of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences. In 2007 she won first place in the international realisation competition for the expansion of the Stockholm City Library designed by Gunnar Asplund. In 2009 she won the international competition “The Nine Foot Square Problem”, and in 2010, received honorary mention for her plans for the Jarva Cemetery (as a counterpart to Asplund’s famous Woodland Cemetery). In 2018 she was appointed chair of Building ypologies in the Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the U Dortmund. Her proposal for the new Bauhaus Museum, developed with Benedikt Tonon, was selected in 2012 as part of a worldwide architectural design competition. Professor Hanada has further developed the designs on her own for the Klassik Stiftung Weimar since 2013.
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