Prof. Dipl—Ing. Heike Hanada – born 1964 Grafschaft Hoya - is a German artist and architect. She grew up on the countryside in Toggenburg / Switzerland and Oberschwaben / South Germany. She studied architecture at Hochschule der Künste Berlin and Tokyo Daigakku. In 1997 she founded Hanada+ in Tokyo and in 2007 heike hanada_laboratory of art and architecture in Weimar. Today she works as an artist and architect in Berlin.
In 2007, she won the first prize in the public international competition for the extension of the Asplund Library in Stockholm, which brought her work to international attention. This was followed by numerous awards, exhibitions and competition wins. In 2018, she was appointed to the Chair of Building Typologies at TU Dortmund. In 2019, she received the Thuringian Architecture Prize for the new Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. In 2022, she received the Rome Prize of the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo. In 2023, she was appointed as a member of the Class of the Arts at the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. 2025 she re-opend Kunst Museum Winterthur Reinhart am Stadtgarten.
MEMBERSHIPS
since 2023 Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste NRW / Klasse der Künste
since 2010 BDA Berlin
since 2010 Friedrich Nietzsche Archiv Weimar
AWARDS
2021/22 Großer Rompreis, Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo
202 Competition „A new Entrance for Kunst Museum Winterthur Reinhart am Stadtgarten“ - 1. Prize in cooperation with Ayse Erkmen
2019 Architekturpreis Thüringen for the Bauhaus Museum Weimar
2019 Nomination „International Urban Project Award 2019” for the Bauhaus Museum Weimar by WA Bejing and Bauwelt Berlin
2013 Competition „International Creative Union Center Haining, China“ - 2. Prize in cooperation with Jan Kleihues
2012 Competition „Bauhaus Museum Weimar“ - 1. Prize in cooperation with Benedict Tonon
2011 Competition „Restaurant am Neuen Palais - Schlosspark Sanssouci Potsdam“ - 2. Prize in cooperation with Benedict Tonon
2010 Competition „New Cemetry at Järvafältet Stockholm“ - Honourable Mention
2008 Residential Design Competition of JAPAN ARCHITECT 2008, Theme and Jury Rafael Moneo: “Four Square House Design Problem – Homage to John Hejduk” - 1. Prize
2007 Competition „Extension of City Library Stockholm von Gunnar Asplund Stockholm“- 1. Prize
TEACHING
2022 Cornell University ROME, Design and Theory Course
Since 2018 Full Professor Chair of Building Typologies, TU Dortmund
2010-2018 Professor BauGestaltung, Potsdam School of Architecture
2007 Assistant at Chair of Design and Baugestaltung, Prof. Burkhard Grashorn, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2004 Teaching Assignement at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department Inter Media Art Toride - GEDAI
2002-2004 Teaching Assignement Fak. Gestaltung / Freie Kunst, Prof. Barbara Nemitz, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Projekt GREEN SPACE I +II in cooperation with Prof. Yoshiaki Watanabe, Gedai Tokyo
1999-2006 Assistant at Chair of Design and Theory of Public Building Design, Prof. Karl-Heinz Schmitz, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
EDUCATION
1994-1996 PhD - Course, University of Tokyo – TODAI, Urban Lab, Prof. Hidetoshi Ohno
1993-1994 Master - Course, University of Tokyo – TODAI, Urban Lab, Prof. Hidetoshi Ohno „Floating Topography – The Beginning of Reverie (the space after landscape/the dissolvement)“
1992 Diplom, HdK Berlin, Chair of Urban Design, Prof. Alfred Grazioli
1989-1992 Free Collaboration: Landscape Architecture Office of Adelheid Rosenkranz, Berlin
1988 INTERNSHIP: Michael Hopkins and Partners, London
1987-1988 AA London
1987 „Sommerakademie Bundesallee“, Prof. Hans Kollhoff and Prof. Fritz Neumeyer
1984-1991 Hdk Berlin / Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Architecture Study
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