German Natural Stone Award at Stone+tec 2018: “One of the most important architecture awards in the country”
Short interview with architect Gunther Bayer /// by Benno Wagner
When we hear “contemporary architecture”, most of us immediately conjure up a vision of a glass and concrete structure. And of course these materials have dominated architecture in the last one hundred years or so. But natural stone continues to play a major role in the construction industry. This centuries-old building material, which comes in a virtually inexhaustible range of colours and patterns, may no longer give today’s buildings the structural stability of the castles and cathedrals of the past, but it often does lend them a certain aesthetic flair.

Architect Gunther Bayer is juror of the German Natural Stone Award 2018, Photo: Bayer & Strobel Architekten
The start of Stone+tec 2018 on 13 June will also be marked by the presentation of the German Natural Stone Award. Architects and landscape architects can submit projects using natural stone in four different categories. One of the jury members will be architect Gunther Bayer. With his firm Bayer & Strobel Architekten, he was one of the nominees for the coveted prize in the category of “Massive building elements and building within existing structures” for the Ingelheim Chapel of Rest project in 2013.

Photo: Bayer & Strobel Architekten
For more information on Gunther Bayer’s work, please visit: www.bayerundstrobel.de
For information and application documents for the German Natural Stone Award see: www.deutscher-natursteinpreis.de