Hansjoerg Goeritz is a German-American practicing architect, designer, professor, and author associated with pure and minimalist architecture that emphasizes essentials of place, space, light and material. He was trained as a mason, as an autodidact, through traveling, and educated at the AA School London. Since 1986 he is founder and principal of Hansjörg Göritz Studio GbR, an association with representations in Germany and the US. For his early works he received one of the most prestigious architecture awards in Germany in 1996, the Baukunst award to the Kunstpreis Berlin from the Academy of Arts, Berlin. Working across scales, among others his Hannover Expo 2000 metro rail station was an exhibit at the 1996 Venice Biennale, and he build the Principality of Liechtenstein’s capitol forum, gardens, and assembly, awarded with the 2010 international Brick award. An educator since 1995, and since 2007 a professor and a 2012 Prometheus medalist at the University of Tennessee, he has widely taught, lectured, critiqued and exhibited, including at Mendrisio, Trondheim, Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Zurich, New York, Auburn, and Yale. In 2013 he was recognized as an Affiliated Fellow to the American Academy in Rome. The Bauhaus University Weimar invited him as a 2015 international featured presenter on architecture and education. He teaches what he practices, and he practices what he teaches. 

Education 

Post-Graduate Studies, AA School, London, UK, 1984/1985 

Diplom-Ingenieur Architektur, HAWK Hildesheim, Germany, 1984 

Mason Diploma, Innung des Bauhandwerks Niedersachsen [Guild], Hannover, Germany, 1980 

Expertise & Interests 

Design in Context 

Essential Design 

Design and Making