Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish material from the Ingeborg Kuhler Architectural Papers must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Ingeborg Kuhler Architectural Papers, Ms2001-028, Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.

Acquisition Information

The Ingeborg Kuhler Architectural Papers were donated in 2000.

Processing Information

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Ingeborg Kuhler Architectural Papers originally occurred in July 2001. This collection was added to the IAWA Small Collections Ms2009-054 in September 2009.

Biographical Information

Ingeborg Kuhler was born in Dachau, Germany in 1943. She studied architecture at the Art School in Krefeld from 1964-1968, continuing her pursuits at the Institute of Hospital Buildings at the Technical University of Berlin from 1974-1977. Since 1978 Kuhler has been in private practice as well as a professor of Art at the University of Berlin (1984-). Kuhler was president and a member of the Commission for Salzburg Architecture and Urban Design from 1994-1997.

In 1992 Kuhler won the European Award for Museum Design for her State Museum of Technology in Mannheim.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of color photomontages and black and white photomontages of two buildings designed by Kuhler: the Studios for the Broadcasting Corporation of Southern Germany, 1987; and the State Museum of Technology and Labor, 1990, both in Mannheim. Also included is a brief biography of Kuhler.