Teaching

Instructor, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL.

Instructor, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, Chicago, IL.

Assistant Professor, University of Washington (UW), Seattle, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), 1968- . He taight courses in architectural history and historic preservation.

Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Technische Universitat, Berlin, Germany, 1974-1975.

Visiting Faculty, UW Rome Center, Rome, Italy, 1977 and 1987.

Associate Professor, UW, Seattle, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP).

Professor, UW, Seattle, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), 1973-06/1996. Pundt received a dual appointment in the UW Department of Art in 1976. He served as the Victor Steinbrueck Chair of the Department of Architecture in 1983.

Visiting Lecturer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, 1982.

After his retirement in 1996, Pundt taught a smaller, selective courseload.

Professional Activities

Organizer, University of Illinois, Committee on Architectural Heritage, Champaign-Urbana and Chicago, IL. As part of this group, Pundt campaigned for the preservation for Frank Lloyd Wright's Frederick C. Robie House (1909-1910) and H.H. Richardson's John J. Glessner House (1886-1887) in 1966.

Delegate, US/International Council on Monuments and Sites Conference (ICOMOS), 1977.

Member, Gesellschaft des Wiederaufbaus der Frauenkirche (Society for the Reconstruction of the Frauenkirche), Dresden, Germany, 1990- . He also contributed to the rehabilitation of the Palace of Sansouci in Potsdam, Germany, and the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany.

Professional Awards

Recipient, Bauakademie, Karl Friedrich Schinkel Medal, Berlin, Germany, 1981.

Recipient, UW, Seattle, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Lionel Pries Teaching Award, Seattle, WA,1985.

Recipient, UW, Seattle, College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Distinguished Teaching Award, Seattle, WA, 1992.

Recipient, Federal Republic of Germany, Civic Order of Merit, First Class, 1992.

College

Coursework in architectural engineering, design and history, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 1955.

B.A., M.A., History of Art and Architecture, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1960.

Ph.D., Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 06/1969. Pundt's dissertation advisors were James S. Ackerman (1919-2016) and Eduard F. Sekler (1920-2017).

College Awards

Recipient, University of Illinois, Ricker Prize, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1960.

Recipient, University of Illinois, Mary McLean Travel Scholarship, Champaign-Urbana, IL, 1960-1961.

Ph.D., with Distinction, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 06/1969.

Relocation

A noted scholar of the German architect Karl-Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), Herman Pundt was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1928. He spent his childhood in this city, which was cut short by the ending phase of World War II. As a teenager, Pundt joined as a cadet in the Kriegsmarine, the German Nazi Navy, in 1944. By 1945, he was pressed into service into the consolidated civilan-military defense force raised to defend Berlin from the approaching Soviet Army. Captured, Pundt was detained in a Soviet military prison camp, but eluded his captors in 12/1945.

Pundt made his way to the United States by 1951, where he was conscripted into the US Marine aerial intelligence service during the Korean War, 1951-1954.

The Marines honorably discharged him and he began studies at the University of Colorado in architectural engineering and history during 1955. He transferred to the history of art and architecrture program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he graduated with a B.A. and M.A., in 1960. He then moved to Cambridge, MA, to begin a Ph.D. program at Harvard University. He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1969.

Pundt died in Donauwörth, Germany, on 09/15/2000.

Biographical Notes

Pundt became a naturalized citizen of the US in 1954.

• Denver, CO (Architect's Birth)
  Denver, CO 80202

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