Klaus Kada

Klaus Kada, born 1940 in Leibnitz, Styria, attended the Polytechnic College and studied architecture at the Technical University of Graz. As a young architect he worked in Düsseldorf and Graz, in 1976 he opened his own architecture office in Leibnitz; until 1985 he had an office partnership with Gernot Lauffer. With the rebuilding and the expansion of the Sparkasse Bad Radkersburg and the Bärnbach glass museum, he succeeding in producing constructions pointing far beyond Austria’s borders; these first successes were followed by many award-winning projects in architecture competitions and a second office in Graz; in 1992 he was invited as a visiting professor to Bremen, in 1993 to Munich, in 1994 he served as university professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the RWTH Aachen University and established an office in Aachen. Apart from private houses and residential buildings, the record of works of by now more than 120 projects comprises public buildings such as the award-winning hall of residence WIST /Graz, the Land Registry Office/Leibnitz, the Institute of Plant Physiology at the University of Graz, hospital buildings in Hartberg and Wagna, nursing homes for the elderly in Leibnitz, Thalgau and Neumarkt, the Festspielhaus St Pölten, the Lagermax/Salzburg truck terminal, the European Academy Bolzano, the City Hall of Graz, schools in Leibnitz, Mittersill, the University of Applied Sciences Urstein, Urnenhain, Linz, numerous industrial and office buildings in Austria and the new corporate headquarters of the Pappas Group in Salzburg. At present, Klaus Kada is working in Graz and Aachen, among other things on projects such as the Salzburg central station, the textile museum in Augsburg, a technology centre in Upper Austria and the headquarters of a major insurance company in Germany.

Klaus Kada is internationally renowned as a member of many juries and as lecturer at conferences and at universities in Europe, Asia, North and South America; he is president of Europan Austria, honorary member of the association of German architects (BDA) and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has received important awards and prizes for many of his buildings.