Thomas Bock (architect)

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Thomas Bock (born February 16, 1957 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German architect and professor of automation and robotics in construction .

Life

Thomas Bock graduated from the Johann-Michael-Sailer-Gymnasium in Dillingen an der Donau in 1976 . From 1977 to 1983 he studied civil engineering (2 years) and architecture at the University of Stuttgart . Awarded a Fulbright scholarship , he studied from 1981 to 1982 at the IIT - Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. His thesis there Multi Use High Rise Building for Downtown Chicago ( Myron Goldsmith , Fazlur Khan ) received the “Best USA thesis award” from Harvard University in Boston . He then worked with Larry Bell at the Environmental Center at the University of Houston on the development of a NASA space station . He completed internships with Frei Otto , Jean Prouvé and Fazlur Khan. During his studies at the IIT, he came across a brochure of the "Sekisui Heim M1", an industrially manufactured prefabricated house by the Japanese manufacturer Sekisui House . This inspired him to go to Japan to study industrialization and robotics in construction. From 1984 to 1989 he was a scholarship holder of the Japanese Ministry of Culture and Science and received his doctorate on the subject of A Study on Robot-oriented construction and building system with Uchida at the University of Tokyo as a "Kogaku hakushi" (Japanese 工 学 博士, Eng. Doctor of Engineering) . After a short research stay at the CNRS - Center national de la recherche scientifique in Paris , he received a 1989 with 32 years reputation as Professor of Automation in Construction at the Civil Department of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) (from 2009: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology). In 1990 he founded the Steinbeis Transfer Center for Robotics in Construction.

In 1997 he moved from Karlsruhe to the Technical University of Munich as full professor for building implementation and building informatics (now: building implementation and building robotics).

Since 1996 he has been an honorary member of the Catholic fraternity AV Edo-Rhenania in Tokyo , a fraternity friendly with the CV .

Act

Thomas Bock is an internationally sought-after specialist for innovative construction technologies , especially for automation and robotics, with more than 300 publications in German, English, French, Japanese and Russian (as of 2011).

He has received consulting assignments for Directorate General XIII (Telecommunications, Information Market and Use of Research Results) of the European Commission and for housing construction from the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry . He has been a reviewer for the China Research Grants Council since 1998 and the National Council of Engineering Sciences of Canada since 2004.

Bock has been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg since 2001, of the Academy of Computer Science of Belarus since 2002, and a member of the Robotics Society of Japan. From 2003 to 2007 he was chairman of the Studiengemeinschaft Fertigbau Wiesbaden and from 2004 to 2007 he was president of the IAARC - International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction. He is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journals Automation in Construction (Elsevier Science Publishers BV), International Journal of Strategic Property Management (IJSPM) ( Vilnius University of Technology ), Journal of Civil Engineering and Management (Vilnius University of Technology), The International Journal of Construction Management ( The Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management) and Robotica (Cambridge University Press).

He was honored in 2003 with the title of honorary professor , which also includes an honorary doctorate in Russia , from the South Russian State Technical University (SRSTU) in Novocherkassk , in 2008 with the IAARC Richard L. Tucker - Yukio Hasegawa Award, and in 2011 with a merit from the Japanese Foreign Minister . Since 2007 he has been a Fellow at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Tokyo. For 2017, Bock was awarded the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Bock: "My impression of Sekisui Heim M1" (PDF; 85 kB), Munich, 2005
  2. ^ Doctoral Dissertation Database , The University of Tokyo, March 29, 1989
  3. ^ "Publications Thomas Bock" , Chair for Building Realization and Building Robotics, TUM
  4. ^ "Awards - Honorary Professorship for Thomas Bock" (PDF; 146 kB), TUM press office 2003
  5. ↑ "Merit Award of the Japanese Foreign Minister", Chair for Building Realization and Building Robotics, TUM 2011 ( Memento from July 21, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ^ "Fellows" ( Memento of March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.3 MB), School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and professor for automation and robotics in construction
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau