In 1963, he received his doctorate under Herbert von Einem in Bonn with the thesis The Palatinate of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in Gelnhausen and Early Baptist Architecture in the Rhine-Main Region.
In the meantime, he worked as an architect, first with Wilhelm Riphahn at the time of his construction of the Wi-So wing of Cologne University.
From 1964 to 1970, Binding directed excavations of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn as head of the Lower Rhine district office.
In his main field of research, the architectural history of the Middle Ages, the standardisation of technical language is his particular concern.
[2] At the University of Cologne, he held the office of Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1979 to 1981 and that of Rector from 1981 to 1983, followed by the then customary period as Prorector.