Wolfgang Döring

Biography
Wolfgang Döring was a German architect and higher education teacher. When his father was appointed director of Ruhrchemie, the Döring family moved from Berlin to Oberhausen. He first studied architecture with Hanse Döllgast at the Technical University of Munich, where he passed his preliminary diploma examination in 1957. In 1958, he followed the main diploma examination at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Egon Eiermann, where he subsequently worked. In 1960, he became an assistant to Paul Schneider-Esleben in Düsseldorf. In 1964, he established his own architectural office and became part of the local art scene. He was friends with, among others, Günther Uecker, Gerhard Richter, and Bernd and Hilla Becher, who photographed architectural models for him in the early stages. From 1971 to 1973, he opened a second office in Milan, Italy. In 1972, he was appointed professor at the Department of Design and Civil Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, where he worked until his retirement in 1999. From 1974 to 1976, he led an office in Riyadh, where he was involved in the planning and construction of sports centers in Saudi Arabia and projects in Libya. From 1984 to 1989, he had an office in Istanbul together with Tülay Arkhan. In 1985, he took over the reconstruction of Melnikov's House in Moscow. In 1989, he was invited to the biennale in Buenos Aires, where he received an award for architecture and became an honorary professor at the Centro de Arte y Comunicación. In 1992, he served as a visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In 1996, he founded a joint studio Döring+Partner with Michael Dahmen and Elmar Joeressen, which later changed its name to Döring Dahmen Joeressen Architekten. In 2018, he left the office, which operates today under the name DDJ Architekten.