Frank Heinlein Author

Prof. Werner Sobek is the founder of an international group of engineering and design consultants, offering premium consultancy services for architecture, structures, façades and sustainability. By means of award-winning experimental buildings such as R128, H16, F87, B10 and (most recently) UMAR he studies how new materials, structures and technologies can bring about a radical change of our built environment. Dr. Frank Heinlein studied history in Berlin, Edinburgh, Strasbourg and Freiburg, before completing his doctoral studies at the European University Institute in Florence. Since 2000, Frank Heinlein has been directing corporate communications at the Werner Sobek Group. Since 2013 he has also been managing director of the non-profit E-Lab Project Ltd., which has set up a future-orientated research project on the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart: Aktivhaus B10. As an honourary board member of aed, Frank Heinlein sets up and organises many presentation events and young talent competitions.