Burkhard Grashorn

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Burkhard Grashorn (* 1940 in Oldenburg ; † August 6, 2017 ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, Burkhard Grashorn studied architecture from 1960 to 1969 with Wils Ebert at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin and with Ludovico Quaroni at the Roman University of La Sapienza . He worked in Italy for over ten years, among others with Paolo Portoghesi and Vittorio Gigliotti . In 1973 Grashorn became assistant to Josef Paul Kleihues at the newly founded architecture faculty of the TU Dortmund . In 1980, Grashorn was the German commissioner for the first Architecture Biennale in Venice and became known to a wide audience.

In 1995 he was offered a professorship for design and building design at the Bauhaus University Weimar . Before that, he had lectureships and visiting professorships in Oldenburg, Bremen and Venice .

In 1998 he married the artist and writer Manon Hoof (grass horn) .

Grashorn worked on over 100 projects, few of which were construction projects, but many exhibitions and contributions to internationally important competitions.

Fonts

  • Four more corners and in this place is Oldenburg's water city - the arts carry the city. 1980, ISBN 3-926296-02-X .
  • with Herbert Pfeiffer and Aldo Licker: Urban redevelopment Berlin: Mitte-West. University of Dortmund Civil Engineering, 1997, ISBN 3-924936-18-8 .
  • Sound point. Text passage. Building site. Instead of ... ?: For the 80th anniversary of the Bauhaus. Bauhaus University, Weimar 2000, ISBN 3-86068-141-9 .
  • Burkhard Grashorn - the unfolding of the tower. Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, 2002, OCLC 314194472 .

literature

  • Michael Kraus, Simon Scheithauer and others: Poetic utopia: the architect and university professor Burkhard Grashorn. M Books, 2017, ISBN 978-3-944425-03-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ farewell Burkhard grass horn. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, accessed on August 16, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ a b c Simon Scheithauer, Michael Kraus: The adjourned architecture. On the death of Burkhard Grashorn (1940–2017). Obituary. on: baunetz.de , accessed on August 16, 2017.
  3. ^ Gallery Profile Weimar: Artist of the gallery: Manon Grashorn ; galerie-profil.de, accessed on April 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Grass horn, Burkhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2017