Office Profile
The studio Kleihues+Schuwerk Architects was founded in 2004 in Naples and Berlin by the architects Jan Kleihues and Klaus Schuwerk, after winning the competition for the Museum for Labour and Industry in Brescia. Although Kleihues and Schuwerk knew each other and have been working together already.
Jan Kleihues (born 1962) has realized various important projects in the German capital. Examples include the office and apartment building Leipziger Platz 14, the Concorde Hotel in Berlin-Charlottenburg and the Maritim Hotel close to the Shell-House of Emil Fahrenkamp. At the moment he is working on the new headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in Berlin and on the House of Finance of the University of Frankfurt/Main, both winning entries of international competitions.
Klaus Schuwerk (born 1967) has been teaching architecture at the Universities of Cottbus and Naples. He has won numerous prices and honory mentions at national and international competitions, like the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Köln, the new station Papestrasse in Berlin and the new thermal bath of Meran. He lived in Naples for ten years, working on restructuring a baroque monastery as the centre of ancient music Pietà de' Turchini. After Kleihues + Schuwerk won the international competition for the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Klaus Schuwerk moved to Oslo.
