Günther Binding

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Günther Binding (born 6 March 1936) is a German

art historian and retired professor of art history and urban conservation at the University of Cologne
.

Life

Born in Koblenz, Binding, brother of the later sculptor

dissertation was on the subject of Münzenberg Castle in the Wetterau. In 1963, he received his doctorate under Herbert von Einem in Bonn with the thesis The Palatinate of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in Gelnhausen and Early Baptist Architecture in the Rhine-Main Region. In the meantime, he worked as an architect, first with Wilhelm Riphahn at the time of his construction of the Wi-So wing of Cologne University.[1]
Freelance work followed until 1964: residential buildings, excavations and restorations in Hesse.

From 1964 to 1970, Binding directed excavations of the

Habilitation thesis
Burg und Stift Elten am Niederrhein and was appointed Akademischer Rat and professor there in 1970. From 1974, he was full professor of art history and urban conservation, director of the Institute of Art History with the Department of Architectural History.

In his main field of research, the architectural history of the Middle Ages, the standardisation of technical language is his particular concern. His work Architektonische Formenlehre, published in 1980, is a standard work on architectural description.[2]

At the University of Cologne, he held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1979 to 1981 and that of Rector from 1981 to 1983, followed by the then customary period as Prorector. From 1982 to 1984, he was Vice-President of the German Rectors' Conference.

In 2007, Binding was appointed by Cologne to the Scientific Advisory Board on the Archaeological Zone Cologne.[3] In a dispute with the project manager Sven Schütte, Binding resigned again in March 2008.[4][5]

Since 1999 he has been a corresponding member of the

Saxon Academy of Sciences at Leipzig,[6] since 2002 a corresponding and 2005 a full member of the scientific society at the Goethe University Frankfurt
.

Binding has been emeritus since 31 March 2001.

Awards

  • 1966: Ruhrpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft of
    Mülheim an der Ruhr
  • 1986: Josef Humar Prize of the Haus und Grund
  • 1987: Rheinlandtaler of the Landschaftsverbandes Rheinland
  • 1986: Kalinowski-Medaille des Generaldirektors der polnischen Werkstätten für Denkmalpflege (PKZ)

Works (selection)

References

  1. ^ Vita bei frommann-holzboog.de
  2. ^ Rektorenporträt der Uni-Köln, retrieved 12 February 2021.
  3. ^ 24 April 2007 Constituent Meeting of the Advisory Board on the Archaeological Zone in Cologne, retrieved 12 February 2021.
  4. ^ ksta.de – Ein Abgang mit Paukenschlag, retrieved 12 February 2021.
  5. ^ Stefanie Stadel: Der Streit um des Kaisers Bad; Köln bekommt eine Archäologische Zone, in der Ausgrabungen aus der Antike öffentlich zugänglich gemacht werden. Doch nun verzetteln sich Wissenschaftler und Politiker in einem Detailstreit. In Welt am Sonntag. 30 March 2008.
  6. ^ Biography

Further reading

  • Ute Mechmann among others: Schriftenverzeichnis von Günther Binding. In INSITU (Zeitschrift) 8 (2016/1), pp. 137–146.

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