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Raimund Becker-Ritterspach

Dr.-Ing. Raimund Otto Arthur Becker-Ritterspach (* 19. March 1942 in Berlin) is a German architect and building historian who worked in the preservation of classical Newari Architecture.

Life

Becker-Ritterspach was born in Berlin in 1942, son of Prof. Dr. Günther Becker, Biologist and Elise Becker. He was trained at Technical University Berlin, graduating in 1968.

Career

Becker-Ritterspach joined in 1973 the consulting firm Systemplan Ltd .in Heidelberg, Germany and was subsequently appointed from 1974 -79 to the bilateral Nepal/German joint government venture, Bhaktapur Development Project (BDP) in Bhaktapur, Nepal - an integrated town development approach in the royal town of Bhaktapur (UNESCO World Heritage). He served as head of the restoration section and finally Head of the German team of BDP. Based on these experiences Becker-Ritterspach gained his doctorate in 1982 at Technical University Berlin with his Ph.D. thesis: Gestaltungsprinzipien in der Newarischen Architektur - Beitrag zur Konstruktion und Formgebung, Lübeck/Hamburg 1982. Honorary work

Since 2014 Becker-Ritterspach co-operates with The CHERISH group of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of San Carlos (USC), Cebu City, Philippines in the field of monument preservation. Assistance was given after the disastrous earthquake at Bohol Island and Cebu Island in October 2013. As a result USC had published in 2018 the Illustrated Manual for the Repair and Maintenance of Spanish period Structures in the Philippines.

Research

Becker-Ritterspach has published a number of research projects, mainly in the field of Nepalese architecture, which were partly sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His books on Water Conduits in the Kathmandu Valley (1995) and Ratna style Temples with an Ambulatory have mainly to be mentioned here (2016).

Weblink

www.nepal-achitecture.de

Bibliography

1. Album of Selected Wooden House Designs, UNDP/FAO, Rome 1973, Co-author

2. Gehöfte in den Mandara Bergen, Nord-Kamerun - Traditionelle Wohn-Cluster, in: Bauwelt 20/1974

3. Jaisalmer, Beobachtungen in einer rajasthanischen Wüstenstadt, in: Bauwelt 9/1978 (co-author: L. Keck)

4. Urban Renewal: The Restoration of Bhaktapur, in: UNASYLVA der FAO/UN vol.30, no.121, Rome 1978

5. Das Bhaktapur Development Project - eine Zusammenfassung der Ziele, Leistungen und Erfahrungen, in: Stadtentwicklung Bhaktapur, Bhaktapur 1979

6. Nord-Süd-Partnerschaft der kleinen Schritte, in: Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (E+Z), 9/1979, Bonn

7. Integrierte Stadtentwicklung am Beispiel der Stadt Bhaktapur/Nepal, in:Stadtplanung, Institut für Städtebau und Sozialplanung in Eckernförde, 1981

8.Ph.D. Thesis: Gestaltungsprinzipien in der Newarischen Architektur -Beitrag zur Konstruktion und Formgebung, Lübeck/Hamburg 1982

9. Certain Aspects of Design of Nepalese Degah with an Ambulatory Surrounding the Cella, in: Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley - Proceedings of an International Conference in Lübeck, June 1985, Sankt Augustin 1987

10. Dhunge-Dharas in the Kathmandu Valley - An Outline of their Architectural Development, in: Ancient Nepal (Journal of the Department of Archaeology), No. 116-118, Kathmandu 1990

11. Denkmalpflege im Rahmen des Stadtentwicklungsprojektes Bhaktapur (1974-86) Beitrag für Deutsche Kunst und Denkmalpflege, 49.Jg. 1991, Heft 2, München

12. Two Nepalese Shrines of the Saha-Period with Eclectic Characteristics, in: Artibus Asiae, Vol. LIV. 1/2, Zürich 1994

13. Water Conduits in the Kathmandu Valley, Munshriram Manoharlal Publishers, Pvt.Ltd, New Delhi 1995

14. Dhunge-Dharas in the Kathmandu Valley - Continuity and Development of Architectural Design, in: Change and Continuity -Studies in the Nepalese Culture of the Kathmandu Valley. Proceedings of the International Conference-Seminar of Nepalese Studies in Stockholm, 1987. Orientalia - Collana di Studi Orientali des CESMEO, No. VII, Torino, 1996

15. The Nyatapola Temple of Bhaktapur - A Mark of Nepalese Temple Design, in: Marg, Vol.49 No.4, Mumbai 1998

16. Golden Peaks and Tinkling Bells: Gilt Metal Craft in Kathmandu Valley Architecture, in: Marg, Vol.62 No.1, Mumbai 2010:

17. Ratna style Temples with an Ambulatory - Selected temple concepts in Bengal and the Kathmandu Valley, Himal Books Pvt. Ltd., Kathmandu 2016 (Saraf Foundation for Himalayan Traditions and Culture)

18. Illustrated Manual for the Repair and Maintenance of Spanish period Structures in the Philippines – with detailed Studies from Cebu and Bohol, (co-author: Archt. Melva Rodriguez-Java, FUAP), University of San Carlos Press, Cebu 2018