Alexander Schwarz
After an apprenticeship as a violin maker in Mittenwald, Alexander Schwarz studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart, the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and the ETH Zurich. He is Professor of Public Buildings and Design at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart and a partner in the architectural firm David Chipperfield Architects Berlin. As design director, he has designed numerous public buildings, including the Neues Museum and the James Simon Gallery on Berlin's Museum Island, Haus Bastian in Berlin, the Literaturmuseum der Moderne in Marbach, the Folkwang Museum in Essen, and the restoration of Mies van der Rohe's National Gallery in Berlin, where he also curated the »sticks and stones« exhibition.
