Helge Bofinger

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Willy Brandt House in Berlin

Helge Bofinger (born March 30, 1940 in Stettin ; † June 7, 2018 ) was a German architect and university professor .

life and work

Bofinger and his family came to Lower Saxony as displaced persons . Helge Bofinger studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig and worked from 1968 to 1969 as a research assistant for Zdenko Strižić .

In 1969 Bofinger opened his own office Bofinger & Partner in Braunschweig together with Margret Bofinger . In 1972 he was appointed to the Association of German Architects (BDA) and was a member of the board of the BDA district group in Braunschweig from 1973 to 1979. In 1974 he founded another office in Berlin , where he also became a founding member and federal chairman of the BDA's Architecture and Monument Protection Working Group. In 1975 he relocated the Braunschweig office to Wiesbaden .

Bofinger took part in the International Building Exhibition in Berlin in 1984 , but his design was never carried out. It was not until 1992 that the Social Democratic Party of Germany commissioned him to realize his design for the IBA in Berlin as the seat of the SPD party headquarters, known as the Willy Brandt House .

From 1979 to 1981, Bofinger was substitute professor for Josef Paul Kleihues at the University of Dortmund . In 1986, Bofinger's successor to Harald Deilmann was appointed to the chair for design and building theory at the University of Dortmund. Lectureships and visiting professorships at the University of Stuttgart , the University of Hanover , the Technical University of Darmstadt , the University of Venice , the University of Amsterdam , Universidade de Brasília , Universidade de São Paulo , Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná and the University of Rosario (Argentina) as well as the Academie van Bouwkunst in Rotterdam followed. 1985 Bofinger received an honorary professorship at the University of Buenos Aires and the title of professor hc at the Georgian Technical University in Tbilisi . He was professor at the International Academy of Architecture (IAA) in Sofia, Bulgaria.

For many years he was a member of the board of the Association of Friends of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main and was an honorary member. He was a member of the State Monument Council in Berlin.

Awards

Buildings (selection)

  • 1974: Horten department store in Braunschweig (with Margret Bofinger)
  • 1984: German Film Museum in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1988: Rathaus-Carrée in Saarbrücken
  • 1988: Center "Sauerland" in Wiesbaden
  • 1996: Willy Brandt House in Berlin, seat of the federal headquarters of the SPD
  • 2005: House of Economic Development / Saarland Ministry of Economic Affairs in Saarbrücken

Fonts

  • (with Margaret Bofinger): Young Architects in Europe. 1983, ISBN 3-17-007713-9 .
  • (with Margaret Bofinger, Heinrich Klotz, Jürgen Paul): Architecture in Germany. Federal Republic and West Berlin. 1988, ISBN 3-17-007148-3 .
  • (with Helmut Jacoby, Wolfgang Voigt): Helmut Jacoby. Master of architectural drawing. Wasmuth, Tübingen 2003, ISBN 3-8030-0612-0 .

literature

  • Helge Bofinger: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Helge Bofinger . In: Valentin Wehfritz (Hrsg.): CVs from your own hand . Biographical archive of Dortmund university professors. No. 11 . Dortmund 2007, p. 3–28 ( tu-dortmund.de [PDF; 1.4 MB ; accessed on February 13, 2012]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prof. Helge Bofinger: Obituary notice of the German Architecture Museum. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 13, 2018, accessed June 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bofinger, Helge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 7th June 2018