Wind, Waves and Zen

Dirk Bornhorst was born in 1927 in Lubeck, Germany, and grew up in Maracaibo, Venezuela, where his father and grandfather had been working as merchants since 1854. On a trip via Asia to Europe the family was surprised by the Second World War, and so the author received his schooling in German schools in Kobe, Japan and Tianjin, China, where he finished his high school. After studying architecture at the University of California in Berkeley and at the E.T.H. Zurich, he has worked since 1952 in Caracas as an architect and university professor.