Werner Sobek

German structural engineer.

Biographical Information

Name:	Werner Sobek
Born on	16 May 1953 in Aalen, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
Place(s) of activity:	schlaich bergermann partner Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Werner Sobek New York Inc. Werner Sobek Stuttgart GmbH
1974 - 1980	Studies structural engineering at the University of Stuttgart
1978 - 1980	Studies architecture at the University of Stuttgart.
1981	Award of the Friends of the University of Stuttgart for Excellent Scientific Work
1984	Engineer in the office of Skidmore Owings & Merril, Chicago and San Francisco, Illinois Institute of Technology
1987	Doctoral Dissertation: Concrete shells created on pneumatic form work. Doctoral Degree in engineering science
1987 - 1991	Engineer in the office of Schlaich, Bergermann & Partner, Stuttgart
1989	Hubert-Rüsch-Award for outstanding scientific work related to concrete structures
1991	German Award for Structural Engineering

Participation in the following structures & large-scale projects:

architect

designer

engineer

Sobek, Werner (2017): Adaptive Gebäude – (R)evolution durch Anpassung. In: Bundesingenieurkammer (2017): Ingenieurbaukunst 2018. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin (Germany), ISBN 9783433032046, pp. 144-151.
Fahrion, Marc-Steffen / Draeger, Susan / Sinn, Michel / Altinisik, Leman / Sobek, Werner (2018): AKTIVkrankenhaus - Modernisierungsstrategie für ein klimaneutrales Krankenhausareal. In: Bauphysik, v. 40, n. 4 (August 2018), pp. 169-179.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bapi.201810024
Haase, Walter / Klaus, Thorsten / Schmid, Fabian / Sobek, Werner / Sedlbauer, Klaus / Schmidt, Timo / Synold, Martin (2011): Adaptive textile und folienbasierte Gebäudehüllen. In: Bautechnik, v. 88, n. 2 (February 2011), pp. 69-75.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bate.201110005
Sobek, Werner / Haase, Walter / Teuffel, Patrick (2000): Adaptive Systeme. In: Stahlbau, v. 69, n. 7 (July 2000), pp. 544-555.
https://doi.org/10.1002/stab.200001870
Sobek, Werner (2001): Bauen in der Zukunt. In: Detail - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail, v. 41, n. 8 (December 2001), pp. 1454-1457.

Bechmann, Roland / Hagenmayer, Stephen / Winterstetter, Thomas (2018): Efficiency and beauty - steel structures by Werner Sobek. In: Steel Construction, v. 11, n. 2 (May 2018), pp. 125-132.
https://doi.org/10.1002/stco.201810022
Ehrendoktorwürde für Werner Sobek. In: Stahlbau, v. 78, n. 8 (August 2009), pp. 600-601.
https://doi.org/10.1002/stab.200990112
Fritz Leonhardt Preis 2015 an Werner Sobek. In: Stahlbau, v. 84, n. 4 (April 2015), pp. 296.
https://doi.org/10.1002/stab.201590033
von Graevenitz, Karoline (2015): Fritz-Leonhardt-Preis geht an Werner Sobek. In: Bauphysik, v. 37, n. 2 ( 2015), pp. 137.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bapi.201590016
Sobek, Werner (2005): Integrale Planung - ein Gespräch mit Werner Sobek. In: Detail - Zeitschrift für Architektur + Baudetail, v. 45, n. 12 ( 2005), pp. 1416.