Prof. Volker von Kardorff

Practice up to date:

Reference projects include

• U.A.E Pavilion, EXPO 2020
• Museum berlin modern
• Swedish National Museum
• the Brandenburg Gate
• the master plan Unter den Linden
• the Neues Museum in Berlin
• the GAP 15 high-rise in Düsseldorf and currently
• the Urban Street Beautification in Doha, Qatar

• Born in Hamburg
• until 1994 studied architecture at the TU Braunschweig and the University of Stuttgart
• 1992/93 MSc Light and Lighting Course, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
• 1994 Bartenbach LightLab, Innsbruck
• 1995 Office management Bartenbach LichtLabor, Berlin
• 1997 Kardorff Engineers Lighting Design
• since 2011 Honorary professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Lighting Design Department

2023

• Lighting Designer of the Year

2020

• Lighting Designer of the Year

2013

• German Lighting Design Award: Lighting Designer of the Year

2011

• German Lighting Design Award; category: public areas, street lighting for the project: Marketplace Neubrandenburg
• Finalist German Lighting Design Award, Category: Museum, Project: Neues Museum Berlin
• Finalist Lighting Design Awards, Category: International Project, Neues Museum, Berlin

2010

• State Building Award Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lighting Design Market Square Neubrandenburg

• 2025: Opening lecture at LICHT 25, Oldenburg on ‘Light is design x technology’
• 2024: Lecture at Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, Berlin on ‘Light in the city’
• 02/2011 ETP Anniversary Congress Street Lighting 2011, "So leuchtet Berlin in Zukunft! Entwicklung einer Ausführungsvorschrift."
  Lecture Schréder, Liège, "LED als Herausforderung aus Sicht des Lichtplaners".
• 11/2010 Plan Lumière symposium, Winterthur, "Licht in der Stadt".
• 09/2010 LUCI Annual General Meeting in Chartres on "LUCI Charter for Urban Lighting"
• 06/2010 6th Euroforum Street Lighting Conference
• 09/2009 Dubai Symposium, "Smart lighting concepts and LED technology and Design".
• 04/2009 Bienal de Canarias, Seminar Light Landscapes, Presentation