GÜNTER BOCK PRIZE

The Günter Bock Prize is an annual award given to the student who has completed the first year of studies in the Architecture Class with the best results. The prize was awarded for the first time in 2007 and was initially made possible by the support of the Lions Club Frankfurt Flughafen. Currently the prize is generously sponsored by the Stiftung Städelschule für Baukunst. The prize consists of a €3.000 contribution towards the annual fee for the Master Thesis Year. The award takes its name after the former Dean of the Städelschule Architecture Class, Günter Bock (1918-2002), who worked and taught in Frankfurt from the 1950s and on. Bock became a professor and dean of the Architecture Class in 1972. In 1978 Bock introduced a post-graduate diploma in conceptual design for the Architecture Class and proceeded to internationalize the program. He retired in 1984 and had subsequently a visiting professorship at MIT in 1990. Among his own works are the Health Community Center and Police Headquarters in Offenbach as well as numerous private homes in Taunus.

The Günter Bock Prize award ceremony takes place in conjunction with the annual Dean’s Honorary Lecture during the end-of-year reviews.

2012

to be announced July 2012...

2011

Donlaporn Chanachai

2010

Bruno Stringheta

2009

Maria Kochneva

The Günter Bock Prize 2009 was awarded to Maria Kochneva for her extraordinary work-portfolio throughout the academic year 2008/09 that accumulated in her End-of-Year presentation "Border-Translucent hinge". The study derived from Maria’s interest in the border as an intriguing architectural condition. It was amplified through her research on Renzo Piano`s IBM Travelling Pavilion and led to a series of exciting physical and digital diagrams that worked with great rigor on the elaboration of the conceptual quality of this condition.
continue reading...

2008

Michele Albanelli

Michele Albanelli won the Günter Bock Prize 2008 for his work on Cornerology, a term he introduced as a general heading for his various studies during the year. Albanelli's work consisted of a large number of models, both physical and digital, in which he explored the corner condition as premise for controlling the framing of space.
continue reading...

2007

Anton Savov

With the research and experiments during his first year of studies, Anton Savov became the first recipient of the Günter Bock Prize. Anton presented his work under the title, Interconnectivity and Filtering Devices in Architecture .

In the research on textile geometry, Savov deployed techniques for algorithmic modeling. The sophisticated uses of algorithms in the woven drawdown studies as well as in the final, light-modulated set of models were stunning. In this, he arrived at a full implementation of advanced techniques for architectural strategic considerations.
continue reading