Hansjörg Göritz – Actar Publishers

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German-American practicing architect, designer, professor, and author associated with pure and minimalist architecture, emphasizing place, space, light, and material. Trained as a mason, through master school, self-studies, traveling, and at the AA London, he is founder and principal of Hansjörg Göritz Studio GbR, represented in Germany and the US. He taught, lectured, critiqued, published, and exhibited widely, including Tokyo, Mendrisio, Trondheim, Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Zurich, Yale, Weimar, New York, and Venice. Directing his Berlin studio, he is also a professor at the University of Tennessee and has served on a number of advisory boards and design juries. Major recognitions include the 1996 Baukunst award by the Academy of Arts Berlin, exhibiting at the 1996 Venice Biennale, the 2010 international Brick award, as a Prometheus Medalist, and as Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

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Lewerentz Fragments

Jonathan Foote, Hansjörg Göritz, Matthew Hall, Nathan MattesonThe publication Lewerentz Fragments introduces new scholarship on the architect’s motivations and compiles new essays from all the major scholars on his work.

Jonathan Foote, Hansjörg Göritz, Matthew Hall, Nathan Matteson Through new essays, recently discovered archival material, photography, and drawings, the publication Lewerentz Fragments explores the architect’s body of work spanning three-quarters of the twentieth century. Comprising writings from all the major scholars on Lewerentz’ work, along with several new voices, this publication offers new insight into the context surrounding this architect’s work. Rather than focusing on a single thesis, the book offers a diversity of insight from multiple cultural and professional perspectives. In addition, previously unpublished translations of interviews and dialogs among the architect and his contemporaries offer a voice to the ‘silent architect’ altering the traditional interpretations of the work and digging past the surface of what might be considered his philosophy of building. Rather than serving as an introduction to the architect’s work, this volume provides detailed fragments as a deep and diverse dive into one of the most mysterious

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