Ralph Johannes
Ralph Johannes (born October 24, 1929 in Danzig ) is a German architect and university professor .
Life
Johannes spent his childhood and youth in Danzig-Langfuhr . Before the Red Army captured the city of Danzig in 1945, he managed to escape to Lüneburg .
Following his school days in Lüneburg, Ralph Johannes completed an internship in a carpentry company in 1950. This was followed by a degree in architecture from 1952 to 1958 at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin.
After passing the diploma examination, he initially worked as a freelancer for Helmut Heide in Berlin, and from 1959 worked for Emberton, Franck & Tardrew Architects and AM Gear & Assoc. Architects and Consultants in London. In 1960 he completed postgraduate studies at Regent Polytechnic in London.
In 1961 he received a Fulbright Grant to study as a scholar at the Department of Architecture at the Pratt Institute in New York, where he became Special Assistant at the Department of Interior Design. From 1963 he was a research assistant at the Ulm School of Design . A year later he became a lecturer in design at the Folkwang School of Design, architecture department in Essen-Werden.
How teaching and teaching can be improved has occupied him for many years. During this time at the Folkwangschule he began to develop his teaching and learning method Methodical Design (ME). From 1973 to 1995 he taught this teaching model at the University of Essen (UGE) in the Department of Architecture, Bio- and Geosciences as a professor for the teaching and research field of methodical design (ME). Then until 1997 he taught in the field of civil engineering .
He has been retired since 1998. Since then he has been a. with the creation of various specialist publications. In 2009, together with other authors, he published the first systematic overall presentation of European architectural training in design from Vitruvius up to the middle of the 20th century.
Ralph Johannes also worked as a foreign correspondent for The Architect And Building News (London), Interbuild (London), Internationale Asbestzement-Revue (ac) (Niederurnen, Switzerland) and Architectural Design (AD) (London).
Memberships
- Kunstring Folkwang, Essen
- Architectural Association (AA), London
- Design History Society, London
- European Association for Architectural Education (AEEA / EAAE), Brussels
- Society of friends and sponsors of the University of Duisburg-Essen eV
plant
Fonts
- Gdansk in memoriam. Danziger Verlagsgesellschaft Paul Rosenberg, Hamburg 1971.
- From Bergford via Bergford. A company history. Self-published, Lüneburg 1979.
- (together with Gerhard Wölki): The Autobahn and its rest areas. History and architecture. Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2005.
- Design. Architectural training in Europe from Vitruvius to the middle of the 20th century. History, theory, practice. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2009.
E-books
- Gdansk unforgettable. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 2012.
- Children's play and youth leisure rooms. University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 2013.
Video films
- Whoever wants to design must learn to design. University of Essen, Essen 1989.
- Design between aspiration and reality. University of Essen, Essen 1992.
Web links
- Short biography on the website of the University of Essen as a PDF file with 41 kB
- www.made-me.de
- www.methodisches-entwerfen.de
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Johannes, Ralph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |