Prof. em. Fritz Frenkler

f/p design GmbHBerlin, Germany

Fritz Frenkler is Co-founder of f/p design GmbH with studios in Munich and Berlin as well as a subsidiary in Kyoto. Since 2013, he had been a member of the architecture section of the Akademie der Kuenste (AdK), (Academy of Arts), Berlin, and in 2021 he became a director of the architecture section. In 2022 he has joined the new Board of Trustees of the Dieter and Ingeborg Rams Foundation. Since 2006, he has held the chair for Industrial Design at the faculty of architecture at Munich Technical University (TUM). Until October 2020, he was professor of Industrial Design at TUM. Afterwards TUM awarded him with the title of Emeritus of Excellence in the Senior Excellence Faculty. Fritz was president of frogdesign Asia, managing director of the wiege Wilkhahn Entwicklungsgesellschaft and head of design at the Deutsche Bahn AG. He has been chairman of the iF DESIGN AWARD jury for many years. Starting from 1995, he was a Member of the Board for iF Industrie Forum Design e.V. and is also a Member of the Board of the iF Design Foundation since April 2018.

(November 2023)

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