KARIN ELKE HOFERT FEIX

Dear Professor Hofert, I'm sorry for this late message. The best thing that happened in my study aboard experience is I got luck to meet you as my professor. You always encouraged me to think and feel more than just architecture, and that did make my world much wider than before. I remembered your warm congrats letter after we finished our graduation defense, and you also expressed your excitement when I told you that I started a new carrier as a healthcare designer. I thought life is long enough that one day I can visit Barcelona again and maybe we can talk and walk along the streets, that Barcelona is your beloved city and also mine, but I won't have that chance forever. May you rest in peace and I'll always remember you as my best tutor.

Strict Instructor，
Fervent companion，
A tireless architect，
I bid adieu to my mentor, Professor Karl Elke Hofert!

Dear Professor Hofert, this is a letter waiting to be sent for a long time, but before it was sent, you had already left us. After graduation, I coincidentally became a teacher in university, and every time I recall the time spent with you, I can find new inspiration, especially the work completed under your guidance: Open Prison: Knitvana. I didn't have the chance to tell you that this work was been selected to participate in the 2020 Futurelab International Education Exhibition in Shanghai West Bund, and will also participate in the 40th Anniversary of the Faculty of Architecture and City Planning Exhibition of Kunming University of Science and Technology in December 2023. Although it is not a perfect work, I hope that the concepts in it can inspire more people. It was not until I became a teacher that I realized what a wonderful constructivist teaching I had experienced, and with your support and encouragement, I began to experiment with my wild and poetic design concepts. I will always remember the comment you gave me at the end of the studio: "Now you finally become a human." Yes, since then, I finally understand the meaning of tolerance, and I will follow your example to become a better man, a better teacher and architect.

May all be well with you in heaven and rest in peace.
Your Chinese student: Shi Yanghongyi

We had a wonderful summer this year and thought there would be many more springs, summers, falls and winters. But if this is the end, I forever have your smiling face.

Karin, companya, amiga .......a l'escenari de l'escola vàrem compartir, diàlegs, opinions, certeses i incerteses, coneixements, complicitats, col·loquis amb els alumnes…. les nostres aules contigües durant tants cursos sempre van estar obertes a tots dos…..no vull creure que t'hagis anat….. hi ets.

Tot just fa deu dies compartíem una agradable conversa mentre dinàvem al bar de l'escola. Hem perdut una gran companya de feina. Una dona increïble, sempre positiva i alegre. Desprenia una alegria que s'encomanava. Trobarem a faltar el seu somriure.