Dieter Blocher (Dipl.-Ing.) is founder, managing partner and shareholder of blocher partners business group. After graduating in architecture in Stuttgart and Chicago, Dieter Blocher was lecturer at the University of Stuttgart and worked for Schulz-Brauns as well as for Schunck in Munich, before he switched jobs to work as a planning leading architect at Heinle Wischer in Stuttgart. Dieter Blocher was also responsible for industry location developments of new buildings for the Bosch group in Reutlingen-Kusteringen as well as for Resicoat/Akzo Nobel in Reutlingen.

In 1989, Dieter Blocher founded blocher partners together with his wife Jutta Blocher. In the early 90s and under their management, the company first developed itself with various planning functions to one international leading multidisciplinary planning office within the trade area.

Based on this expertise, in 2006 the foundation of the mono brands and retail consulting specialised company blocher partners shops has been developed, and the communication agency typenraum as well as the Asian subsidiary blocher partners india in Ahmedabad, which was founded in 2009.

Moreover, since the beginning of the 2000s, Dieter Blocher has further intensively developed the areas of residential construction, public buildings and hybrid buildings. In addition to the corporate strategy, Dieter Blocher today takes responsibility for project development, sustainable construction and international building construction. Dieter Blocher is a member of the Association of German Architects.

Hartmut Wurster studied architecture at the University of Technology in Dresden and at Aristoteles-University in Thessaloniki, Greece.

In 2010, Hartmut Wurster joined blocher partners and in 2011, Hartmut advanced to become the country head and managing director of the subsidiary blocher partners india. Hartmut Wurster has developed our Indian branch in Ahmedabad, from which he can oversee the Asian market.

He is responsible for numerous sensational projects, such as for the Business Center Mondeal Heights and Satya One in Ahmedabad or the Goethe-Institute in Kolkota. His intercultural competences shape diversified projects from business centers to luxury villas. Hartmut Wurster is also involved in contemporary art and is the founder of the Zone of Contemporary Art (ZOCA), a platform for young Indian art.

Benjamin Blocher, architect and urban planner, studied at ETH Zurich, the Nation University of Singapore and the University of Buenos Aires.

Born in 1992 as the son of the two company founders, Jutta and Dieter Blocher, he has been contributing his expertise at the interface of architecture and urban planning to the group of companies as a partner since 2021. The topics of transdisciplinarity and sustainability have always run through his projects. For example, during his studies he was involved in the "Future Cities Laboratory" at the Nation University of Singapore, a scientific cooperation between ETH and renowned international universities for the development of sustainable cities.

After completing his studies and working for JAHN Chicago and COBE Berlin, Blocher most recently worked as an architect and urban planner for KCAP Architects & Planners in Zurich.

At blocher partners, he is particularly dedicated to the transformation of cities, sustainable planning and thus the holistic life cycle assessment of buildings and new building technologies.