Gabor Benedek

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Gabor Benedek (born October 12, 1938 in Budapest , Hungary; † June 27, 2019 in Munich ) was a Hungarian-German architect and cartoonist .

Life

Gabor Benedek studied architecture from 1958 to 1960 at the Technical University in Budapest and from 1961 to 1966 at the Technical University of Munich , where he graduated in 1967 with a degree in engineering. After working in the offices of Hans-Busso von Busse and Kurt Ackermann (1967–1970), he founded his own architecture office in Munich in 1970.

From 1968 to 2012 he was a permanent caricaturist for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and also drew weekly for the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from 1971 to 1994 and for the TV station 3sat / ZDF from 1986 to 1988 . Since 2016 he has been working with Jürgen Weiss under the name BWP Architects .

Private life

Benedek had been married to the psychoanalyst Reka Benedek since 1973. They have two sons.

buildings

  • 1980: BMW administration in Dingolfing (with N. Koch)
  • 1984: Central building of the University of Augsburg (with Hagen, Koch, Uhlmann)
  • 1986–1993: IKEA furniture stores in Eching , Leipzig and Chemnitz 1986–1993
  • 1988: Production facilities at the Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in Munich- Riem (with K. Bachmann)
  • 1992: Postbank on Bayerstraße Munich (with N. Koch)
  • 1992: Telecommunications computing center of Post AG in Munich- Neuperlach (with N. Koch)
  • 1995: Oskar-Maria-Graf-Strasse residential complex in Puchheim-Bahnhof near Munich
  • 1995: Hotel and conference center on Alpenstrasse in Salzburg (with K. Uhlmann)
  • 2001: EPCOS semiconductor factory in Szombathely , Hungary
  • 2002: Heckscher Clinic in Rosenheim
  • 2004: Panzerwiese West residential complex in Munich
  • 2006: Hotel La Maison in Munich
  • 2008: Ackermannbogen Süd-Ost residential complex in Munich

Works

  • Dashes , Heyne 1980
  • Building authority , Hugendubel 1982
  • Der Liberalissimus , Süddeutscher Verlag 1988
  • Zaster and Laster , Stiebner 2000

Exhibitions

  • Deutscher Werkbund , Munich, 1981
  • Austrian Society for Cultural Policy, Vienna , 1983
  • Kunstverein Augsburg, 1984
  • Budapest Chamber of Architects, 1984
  • German Architecture Museum , Frankfurt, 1984
  • Architektur-Galerie am Weißenhof, Stuttgart , 1984
  • Goethe Institute, Genoa , 1985
  • Chamber of Architects Mainz , 1986
  • Architecture Gallery Munich, 1988
  • Gallery in the town hall, Munich, 1991
  • Seidlvilla, Munich, 1995
  • German Architecture Center, Berlin , 1998
  • Municipal Gallery Neuburg, 2001
  • Bavarian Chamber of Architects, Munich, 2004
  • Architecture gallery Munich, 2007
  • Catholic Academy, Munich, 2011
  • Olaf Gulbransson Museum , Tegernsee, 2014

Awards

  • BDA Prize Bavaria, 1981
  • German Architecture Prize (Honorable Mention), 1981
  • Golden pen of the Dutch Cartoon Festival, 1985
  • Bavarian Architecture Prize , 2013

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Gottfried Knapp , Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 27, 2019
  2. ↑ bwp-architekten.com: Jürgen Weiss
  3. ↑ br.de: one to one. The talk guest: Reka Benedek, psychoanalyst
personal data
SURNAME Benedek, Gabor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-German architect and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2019
Place of death Munich