Günter Bock
*5. 3. 1918 – Gdańsk, Poland
†11. 9. 2002 – Berlin, Germany
Biography
Günter Erich Joachim Bock was a German architect, theorist, and urban planner. After finishing high school and completing a three-year apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he studied civil engineering at a school in Salzburg, where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1940. In the same year, he was conscripted for military service in Austria as a citizen of the Free City of Danzig. During World War II, he sustained four injuries. After the war, he initially worked for Johannes Krahn and opened his own office in 1956. His acquaintance with artists such as Karl Otto Götz, Bernard Schultze, Otto Herbert Hajek, and Joseph Beuys influenced his perception of brutalist architecture closely connected with art. In 1970, he became a professor of architecture at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he established a postgraduate program in Conceptual Design. He retired in 1984, and Peter Cook took over his teaching position at Städelschule. In 1990, he was a visiting professor at MIT in Cambridge. Among his students were, among others, Gerd de Bruyn and Max Dudler. In 2001, he founded an architectural foundation at Städelschule. An architectural award is named after him.
Günter Erich Joachim Bock was a German architect, theorist, and urban planner. After finishing high school and completing a three-year apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he studied civil engineering at a school in Salzburg, where he graduated as a civil engineer in 1940. In the same year, he was conscripted for military service in Austria as a citizen of the Free City of Danzig. During World War II, he sustained four injuries. After the war, he initially worked for Johannes Krahn and opened his own office in 1956. His acquaintance with artists such as Karl Otto Götz, Bernard Schultze, Otto Herbert Hajek, and Joseph Beuys influenced his perception of brutalist architecture closely connected with art. In 1970, he became a professor of architecture at Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he established a postgraduate program in Conceptual Design. He retired in 1984, and Peter Cook took over his teaching position at Städelschule. In 1990, he was a visiting professor at MIT in Cambridge. Among his students were, among others, Gerd de Bruyn and Max Dudler. In 2001, he founded an architectural foundation at Städelschule. An architectural award is named after him.
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