 Welcome y'all back to another episode of Think Tech Hawaii's Human Humane Architecture. This is a very special episode because in our now almost half a decade and 173 episodes of this show looking for the human and humane in architecture the question remains who is the creator of it the human humane in architecture. The answer might be obvious the human humane architect but how does she he look like that in person. Today's show will share with you the story of life of the embodiment of the for us most human humane architect Gunther Despang. So different than this picture here might indicate a family wasn't easy to begin with for for Gunther. He didn't get to know his genetic dad whom he lost in the second world war in a Norwegian fjord. He owes his mom his additional second birthday of having avoided the bunker in which everyone died and had chosen the central train station where she and Gunther survived in the east in Dresden and them having found refuge in nearby Radeboil. The last time of the second world war he survived down south in Bavaria where his mom found him a bonus dad them adding his sister to his initial family that we see on the left it's Hilmar and he was out as you can see with his later hosen and exploring what we like to call archie nature and that was all out northwest in Bochum where generations together lived in this very humble abode. Him pretty much besides school cultivating and educating himself and brothering his sister him venturing out and about as a nomad as you can tell here and thinking about the world out there as in the ports of what we see here Bremen and Bremenhaven together with his mother and sister everything around their home and nearby Lüneburg those were the roaring 60s where they started and one started to ride in style. Its parents off to vacationing in what Germans and like to do at that time driving south to the Mediterranean region to Italy himself as well but his Citra and De Chavaux broke down near Innsbruck in Austria and him by now a student of architecture getting having to get himself an architectural job to get his car fixed and while he was there hitting the ski slopes where the Bo bachelor met his love of his life and soon after that married her in her alpine birthplace of Sefeld in Tyrol in Austria some saying that they also married because of me their son to the left arriving around that time and few years later on the right they got me my sister our parents having been true and still are a true Lebenskünstler artists of lives those early 70s were also Günther's pioneering days of practice together with his two business partners Wolfgang and Reiner returning to his upbringing roots in Bochum with domestic tempered brutalism for his family he carefully custom crafted a rental sky lanai as a vital outdoor gathering place for family and lots of friends and his early inspiration and motivation for us my sister and me to later join our father's berufung that full of love free spirit of those 70s equally fueled his architectural envisioning transitioning into the 80s him having gestalted the home for his parents way out way out west in those days of still a real temperate climate winters in one of these this later taken over from his bonus that car BMW 12 cylinder saved him his life the house is low key to the street and turning into a wide open topographic landscape inside anchored around the central fireplace lounging opening itself up to the forest landscape in the rear that as you can see we fully enjoy it playing there human interaction as you can see here between my mom and my dad being the key for my father with all resulting in a fireworks of professional practice of a multitude of as seen here educational typologies and as you can see here cultivated centers like town halls as well as urban rejuvenations and scales from the very macro to the very micro he did similar for his own family including sweat equitying and his very cosmopolitan veldt burger thinking making him a modern master of people and planet friendly built environments and around him the growing family gathering here with his school buddies at their Roma restaurant to lunching he was materializing the colossal at this point continuing with Reiner in the 90s which through his me his son also bringing him his first grandson and few years following his second grandson and his daughter graduated from architectural school and them collaborating in the 2000s him establishing desping architect with me his son and his daughter joined venturing together with her business partner resulting in the typologically most comprehensive critical practice centered always around his client's secret dreams he helped them to bring out the results highly recognized and him bringing the international praising and and acclaim home back to his and his fellow gunter banished sexonian roots with him returning to rada boil and adopting a neglected zilla villa here to the left back at his boutson birth house around that time his daughter bringing him his third grandson rada boil as you can tell becoming the family gathering place from there on around which he's always collegially enjoying in culture his zilla villa is neighboring call mys villa shatterhand and its continued celebration of the good and bad in all boys he is following the emerging generation maturing occasionally being back north and later them visiting him in his east sympathetically supporting there the apple not falling far from the trees dreams on their ongoing winding paths gunter and rada boil continuing to be the headquarters raking in recognitions including for his home coming to bochum with these subway canopies and it's where he evolves his sky lanai expertise plus exceptionally additionally serving building culture on the other the client side parallel passing on his irresistible vedal style to his thriving grandsons plus bonus grandsons as his growing patchwork family his always and forever young at heartness centering him within having his mentees appreciate his cultivated wisdom around his second birthplace in this his east as well when reunite reuniting back north him always there for his clients working and playing hard to our always everywhere and most warmly welcome father grandfather business partner school buddy friend and husband and many more to come following this show we wish you are most human and humane human being architect the happiest and healthiest 80th birthday in your first and second birthplace paradise all right so this about the most human humane architect and it's being 80 years young and with that we see you next week for another episode of human humane architecture bye bye