Hansjörg Göritz

Hansjörg Göritz

Hansjörg Göritz (born June 5, 1959 in Hanover ) is a German-American architect , designer , university professor and author . In 1996 he was awarded the Baukunst Prize for the Berlin Art Prize of the Berlin Academy of the Arts for his early work . In 2012 he was recognized as an Affiliated Fellow of the American Academy in Rome .

Life

Hansjörg Göritz was born in 1959 as the son of a bricklayer and grew up with a craft in rural areas in Lower Saxony . After graduating from high school, he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. He studied architecture at the Hildesheim / Holzminden University of Applied Sciences in Hildesheim and at the London Architectural Association School of Architecture . After traveling in the Mediterranean, to Cistercian monasteries, the landscape gardens of England and Scandinavia, he worked in Hanover from 1986 and in Berlin from 2007.

He designed the State Forum and State Parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein , the first in the country's history. The Hannover-Nordstadt station was with cobalt blue glass stone of a Florentine glassworks and blue pigmented concrete for the Expo 2000 opened Hanover S-Bahn built.

Hansjörg Göritz taught architecture as a guest at the Hildesheim University of Applied Science and Art 1995–1997, as a professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences from 1999–2001 and has been a professor at the University of Tennessee in the College of Architecture and Design since 2007 . In addition to international lecturing, he was a guest critic at prestigious universities such as the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and Yale, Visiting Adjunct Faculty at Auburn University, and taught at the 2018 UT Finland Architecture Summer Institute at Aalto University Helsinki. In 1993 Göritz was appointed to the Association of German Architects (BDA) and in 2000 to the German Werkbund (DWB), and since 2007 he has been an International Associate at the American Institute of Architects (AIA).

Awards

• 1988: Villa Massimo Rome, architecture division, nominated by the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
• 1994: Lower Saxony BDA Prize , recognition for the Klektiven exhibition building
• 1994: BDA Prize Lower Saxony, Prize for Private House H.
• 1994: Brick Architecture Prize, for 'Halle im Steinernen Block', 'Steinhaus im Holzhaus', and 'Steinerne Wand'
• 1994: Deubau Prize for Young Architects, for 'Halle im Steinernen Block', 'Steinhaus im Holzhaus', and 'Steinerne Wand'
• 1996: Berlin Art Prize, Baukunst Prize, Academy of the Arts Berlin
• 1998: Erich Schelling Prize, nomination, International Prize for Architects and Architecture Critics
• 2000: Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, selection of buildings and fonts for the foundation collection
• 2006: Hyde Chair of Excellence, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA, shortlist
• 2008: Bundesstiftung Baukultur Potsdam, selection of public buildings for the foundation collection
• 2009: DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany, German Architecture Export: Hansjörg Göritz, State Parliament of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Vaduz
• 2010: Brick Award, International Prime Award for Liechtenstein State Forum and National Assembly
• 2010: Scholar of the Week, University of Tennessee, recognition for the International Brick Award 2010
• 2012: Prometheus Leadership Award, University of Tennessee, Center for Educational Leadership
• 2012: American Academy in Rome Affiliated Fellowship, University of Tennessee, for 'Intra Murus'

plant

Hannover-Nordstadt S-Bahn station

High House in Liechtenstein

Buildings and designs (selection)

• 1989: House with a glass block lantern (dental practice M.) in Hanover
• 1990: House on pillars in the house (private house H.) in Pattensen
• 1992: Stone house in a wooden house (private house K.) in Kirchhorst
• 1993: Steinerne Wand (climbing objects, administration and exhibition) in Hildesheim
• 1993: Hall in the stone block (private house H.) in Hanover- Ahlem
• 1996: Long dormitory (Spargelacker residential complex) in Hanover- Bemerode
• 1997: Body made of glass blocks ( Hanover-Nordstadt train station for EXPO 2000 ) in Hanover-Nordstadt
• 1991–2007: Medallion (baroque wood market) in Wolfenbüttel
• 2001–2008: High House (State Forum and State Parliament) in Vaduz ( Liechtenstein )
• 2008–2009: Grand Garden (Knoxville Botanical Gardens and Arboretum) in Knoxville ( Tennessee , USA)

Fonts

• Homage. Heinz Bienefeld 1926–1995. In: AIT , No. 7-8 / 1995.
• Unplaced stones - or: the practice of cultural don quichotry. In: AIT , No. 1-2 / 1996.
• Calculated light. The rebirth of architectural space. In: Yearbook Light and Architecture 1998. Verlag "Das Example", Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-923974-74-4 .
• Crack and space. Plea for a new convention of building as spatial art. In: Baukultur , No. 5/1998.
• Build arks. Intermediate and transition spaces between hermetic and hermeneutic. In: Ark. (Catalog for the exhibition of the Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth in the art building in the courtyard of Bodenburg, 8 July to 8 October 2000.) Kunstverein Salzdetfurth, Bad Salzdetfurth 2000.
• Housing and settlement. Exploring the essentials. In: Baukultur , No. 5/2006.
• The Louis I. Kahn phenomenon . In: Baukultur , No. 6/2006.
• High house. Providing shelter to legislation. In: Dortmund Institute for Urban Architecture (Hrsg.): Stadtbaukunst. The roof. (= Dortmunder Architekturheft, No. 20.) Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-88364-061-7 .
• Calculated light. On Essentials for Rebirth of Architectural Space. In: Lighting India 1, 2009.
• The lightness of the stone? In: DBZ , No. 2/2009.
• Vast Vicinity or Dense Garden Carpets. Learning from Essential Settlings and Dwellings. In: WIT / common ground , 2009/2010.

literature

• Gert Kähler : Learning from Vitruvius. Remembering forgotten origins. The award-winning architecture by Hansjörg Göritz. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (features section) of March 22, 1994.
• Clemens Klemmer: Spirit and craft. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from July 1, 1994.
• Accuracy and Myth. Stone houses by Hansjörg Göritz. In: Centrum. Architecture and City Yearbook, 1994. Vieweg, Braunschweig, Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-08803-6 .
• Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects (ed.): Architecture in Lower Saxony 1970–1995. Junius, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-88506-256-9 .
• Klaus-Dieter Weiss: A train station without a city in its belly. In: Berliner Zeitung (Feuilleton) of November 5, 1997.
• Hansjörg Göritz. (= Young German Architects, 1.) Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5782-7 .
• Klaus-Dieter Weiss: On the way to the Expo. In: Berliner Zeitung (Feuilleton) of April 7, 2000.
• Beat Aeberhard: Parliament as a primeval hut. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 6, 2001.
• Susha Maier: Few are given such a privilege. (Interview with Hansjörg Göritz) In: Liechtensteiner Vaterland from September 14, 2005.
• Urs Fitze: Like in a sandpit. (Interview with Hansjörg Göritz) In: Alpenmagazin ,… 2007.
• Roman Hollenstein: city ​​in the making. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of March 10, 2008.
• Benedikt Loderer: The second leading building in Liechtenstein. In: hochparterre , No. 4/2008.
• German Architecture Yearbook 2009/10 Prestel, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7913-4367-9 .
• Best of Brick '08. Brick award 2008. Callwey, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7667-1824-2 .
• The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Phaidon Press, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-0-7148-4874-7 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hansjoerggoeritz.com/united-states-of-america-citizenship.html
2. ^ Ceremonial speech by Hansjörg Göritz at the opening ceremony on February 15, 2008 . Website of the Landtag of the Principality of Liechtenstein. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
3. ↑ PROJECTS - S-Bahn station Expo 2000 Hannover Hainholz . The Seves Group. Archived from the original on July 25, 2008. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 8, 2010. 
4. ↑ Overview of the academic staff of the architecture faculty . University of Tennessee website . Archived from the original on June 10, 2010. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
5. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Engelbosteler Damm , in: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 104

Web links

Commons : Hansjörg Göritz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hansjörg Göritz - website
• Hansjörg Göritz - facebook wall
• Architectural Promotion Prize, Berlin Art Prize - Academy of Arts Berlin
• AA School London - Notable former students