Born in
Dresden on 20 July 1937, Kulka completed a masonry apprenticeship and attended the
Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin alongside
Selman Selmanagić. He fled from
East Germany in 1965. He began working as an independent architect in
Berlin with
Hans Scharoun in 1969 before setting up his own office in
Cologne ten years later. In 1980, he teamed up with to design religious buildings. From 1986 to 1992, he was a professor of structural design at
RWTH Aachen University. After the
Reunification of Germany, Kulka moved back to Dresden and opened his second office. He was one of the founding members of the
Saxon Academy of Arts in 1995, the same year in which he joined the
Academy of Arts, Berlin. In 2010, he joined the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. Peter Kulka died in Dresden on 5 February 2024, at the age of 86. ==References==