Hans Beck Playmobil. During the World Expo 2000 in Hannover, Beck was among the 100 German personalities who were honored with a statue within the German Pavilion. He died at the age of 79 on 30 January 2009 after a serious illness. Hans Beck Hans Beck (6 May 1929, Greiz – 30 January 2009, Markdorf) was the German inventor of Playmobil toys. He is thus often called "The Father of Playmobil". Born in Greiz, Thuringia, Beck grew up in the town of Zirndorf. He trained as a cabinet maker and made small toy vehicles and figures for his younger siblings. He presented
Claus Bech-Danielsen from The Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen. Claus Bech-Danielsen Claus Bech-Danielsen is a Danish professor in architecture and spatial planning at the Aalborg University, where he is also Head of Department at the Center for Housing Research. As part of his research, Claus Bech-Danielsen has been the principal investigator of a project designed to evaluate the renovation of social housing between 2014-2016. Furthermore, he has single-handedly carried out a project which explored trends in house building with the aim to chart the direction of future projects. Claus Bech-Danielsen graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture in 1991 with an