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Max Planck Research Award for Humanities |
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Past + Present = Future (Adolf Loos) |
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After studying architecture, Professor Adolf Hoffmann turned to ancient architectural history as his specialist subject, and is considered now, even on an international level, as one of the leading experts in this subject.
The scientific qualification of Adolf Hoffman in researching archeological constructions and building complexes is closely connected to the method of documentation, a long-standing tradition fostered in Germany. These documentations are presented in a way that they will both stand the test and critical re-evaluation of the reconstruction any time. In this tradition he created, in one of his first activities - analyzing the Villa Hadriana - a significant example of private achitecture in the epoch of Roman emperors -, something like a model for a series of subsequent publications. An important step in this context refers to the private dwellings of Pompeii, where he was able to detect, apart from the traditional atrium-type house, a simpler form which he compared to those built by later Roman settlers in Sulla. Excavations at Gadara, Jordan, and the discovery of late Hellenistic temples outside the settlement itself show, due to their examplary reconstruction, how important his activities are with respect to the interdisciplinary field called ancient architectural history. Owing to his intensified international relationships, in particular with Italian colleagues, Adolf Hoffmann was successful in strengthening cooperations and putting his research project on an international level.
In his capacity as director of the archaeological department in Istanbul, Professor Hoffmann will henceforth concentrate on researching early architecture in Turkey and its position in the life of old cultures.
Adolf Hoffmann was born in Danzig, Poland, in 1941. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin and then architectural history at the University of Karlsruhe. He has been in the position of a scientific assistant at the University of Karlsruhe since 1975, and scientific director and chairman of the Architectural Committee of the German Archaeological Institute since 1988. Since 2001 Hoffmann holds the directorship of the German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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