Background
Dörte Gatermann"s was born in 1956 in Hamburg, Germany.
architect university professor
Dörte Gatermann"s was born in 1956 in Hamburg, Germany.
She went on to study at the Braunschweig University of Technology and at Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen where she studied under Pritzker prize-winning architect Gottfried Böhm.
After working successfully as leader for Böhm"s Züblin House project in Stuttgart while still a student, she spent the next five years working for him as project leader after her graduation. After a few rather modest assignments, larger commissions materialized making the company one of the most innovative and successful architectural firms in Germany. By 2009, when Schossig died, they had implemented some 50 projects.
In 2002, after being offered various professorships, Gatermann finally took the chair at the Technische Universität Darmstadt where she taught until 2007, ultimately deciding to concentrate on her business in Cologne.
Gatermann"s masterpiece is the Triangle Tower, with a height of approximately 103 meters.