Günter Bock (architect)
Günter Erich Joachim Bock (born March 5, 1918 in Danzig ; † September 11, 2002 in Berlin ) was a German architect , architectural theorist and urban planner .
Life
After completing secondary school and completing a three-year apprenticeship as a bricklayer, Bock studied structural engineering at the state trade school in Salzburg and graduated in 1940 as a structural engineer. As a citizen of the free imperial city of Danzig, he also had to do military service in Austria in the Second World War from 1940; in the end he had four wounds.
Acquaintances with artists such as Karl Otto Götz , Bernard Schultze , Otto Herbert Hajek and Joseph Beuys led Bock to go his own way and combine architecture and art. He implemented his ideas with his own office from 1956, after having worked for Johannes Krahn for several years .
In 1970 Günter Bock became head of the architecture class at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main and thus professor at an academic institution. The Master of Advanced Design developed from the establishment of the postgraduate course "Conceptual Design" created by Bock. After 1984, Peter Cook continued this special range of courses at the Städel. After his retirement in 1984, Günter Bock taught as a visiting professor at MIT in Cambridge (Massachusetts) from 1990 .
Günter Bock's pupils included Gerd de Bruyn and Max Dudler . In 2001, Bock founded the Städelschule Foundation for Architecture . The Günter Bock Prize of the Foundation is named after him.
plant
buildings
- Health Department in Offenbach
- Police headquarters in Offenbach
- Bürgerhaus ( House Sindlingen ), Bahnstrasse 124 in Frankfurt-Sindlingen is a cultural monument
- Westhausen cemetery buildings
- Residential houses in the Taunus
Fonts
- Architectural theoretical assumptions by an old practitioner. Städelschule für Baukunst Foundation, Frankfurt am Main 2003. (PDF; 574 kB)
- Regular text publications on the architecture debate in the specialist magazines "Bauwelt" and "Baumeister".
Awards
- 1969: Grand Prix de l'architecture de l'urbanisme in Cannes for the competition entry "Trassenstadt 69" in collaboration with Carlfried Mutschler
literature
Ulrich Conrads: Günter Bock 1918-2002 . In. Bauwelt 37/2002, p. 4
Web links
- on the architecture of the Sindlingen house at www.haus-sindlingen.de , last accessed on December 26, 2010
- Article about the Günter Bock Prize at Rhein Main News - Bad Vilbel Online
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bock, Günter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bock, Günter Erich Joachim (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, architectural theorist and urban planner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 2002 |
| Place of death | Berlin |