Professor Hasso Hohmann's Collection

Dr. Hasso Hohmann was born on October 20, 1943, in Ettlingen near Karlsruhe in Germany. He was admitted to study architecture at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Graz University of Technology. He completed his architecture studies in Graz from 1965 to 1973 and, at the University of Graz, also pursued studies in ethnology (specializing in ancient American studies) from 1968 to 1973. Dr. Hohmann received his doctorate in engineering (Dr.-techn.) from the Graz University of Technology in 1978. Since 2000, he has lectured at the Graz University of Technology on Islamic and pre-Columbian architecture. Since 1965, Dr. Hasso Hohmann has undertaken numerous study trips throughout Europe, China, Thailand, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, and North, Central, and South America, documenting historical buildings photographically and, in some cases, geodetically. He has authored numerous publications in German and English on topics related to architecture and ethnology. Since 1983, he has been co-editor of the ISG News of the International Urban Forum Graz (ISG), and since 1998, editor of the ISG Magazine. Between 1987 and 1998, he served on the Editorial Board of the Cuadernos de Arquitectura Mesoamericana (Journal of Mesoamerican Architecture). He has worked as an exhibition designer and curator and has organized and conducted international conferences. From 1999 to 2004, he led a project to preserve, restore, and further develop the historic center of Nablus, Palestine. Source: austria-forum[dot]org