The architect Karin Renner Karin Renner was born in Hannover in the year 1963. She completed her studies at the RWTH Aachen University from the years 1982 to 1990. During her studies she made a one year scholarship at the TH Delft in the Netherlands by Prof. Herman Herzberger. Her first job while her studies from 1985 to 1986 was for T. Alberts Architecten, in Amsterdam, the second one from 1988 to 1989 for Adele Naude Santos Architects, Philadelphia, in the USA. After her studies she started working for Axel Schultes in Berlin, following six years of work for Aslop & Strömer Architects in London and Hamburg. In 1997 she founded the office “Renner Architekten”, two years later followed by the name “Renner Hainke Wirth Architekten”. Since the beginning of 2017 the office has been operating as “Renner Hainke Wirth Zirn Architekten GmBH”. During her career she has received several prices and awards for her projects. She became one of her first prices in 1999 for the “Lufthansa Empfangsgebäude”, the Lufthansa Technik’s reception building. For this project the office Renner Hainke Wirth Architekten became the price “Building of the year” in the AIV Architecture Award. Another price the office became 2015 was for the ViewPoint, in which the office became the 3rd price from the Alpitecture Award, just to mention a few of the prices the office has won. Since 2004 to date she has been a judge of about 50 competitions in the disciplines of architecture, structural engineering and landscape planning, as well as for different student competitions. Ever since 1995 she has been active giving lectures in different universities around the world , for example at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 2010, or giving regular lectures at the HafenCity University Hamburg from 2014 - 2015.