Christian Schaller (architect)
German architect
Christian Schaller (born 4 November 1937) is a German architect working in Cologne and the Rhineland.
Career
Born in Berlin, Schaller grew up in Höxter with his mother; his father Fritz Schaller had been appointed to the municipal reconstruction company in Cologne in 1947. Christian Schaller studied architecture in Hanover, Karlsruhe and at Technische Universität Berlin under Bernhard Hermkes, where he graduated as Diplom-Ingenieur in 1965.
After completing his studies, he joined his father's office in Cologne, where he played a key role in the completion of the Church of St. Paul in Weckhoven, where a new type of folding concrete roof was used in collaboration with Stefan Polónyi. Christian Schaller carried out further church construction projects in office partnership with his father (Schaller & Schaller GbR). However, he strove early on to develop quarters instead of individual buildings, and in 1968, together with other architects, he founded (other data 1971) the design team 8 (dt8) planning group, with which he was active until 1991, focusing on public participation, urban design and housing construction. In 1978, for example, the group won the competition for the residential development on the site of the former Stollwerck chocolate factory in Cologne's Severinsviertel, which was completed in 1985.
The dt8 group finally disbanded in 1995; Schaller worked with founding member Helmut Theodor as Büro Schaller/Theodor Architekten from 1992 until Theodor retired in 2011.
A major project from this period was the residential development at Beethovenpark, which received recognition at the Deutscher Architekturpreis.
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