Otto Ernst Schweizer, 1890-1965 : Bauten und Projekte / Immo Boyken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boyken, Immo, 1943-

Contributor:

Schweizer, Otto Ernst, 1890-1965.

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Schweizer, Otto Ernst, 1890-1965.

Schweizer, Otto Ernst.

Architecture, Modern--20th century--Germany.

Architecture, Modern.

Architects--Germany.

Architects.

Germany.

Physical Description:

304 pages : illustrations ; 27 in.

Place of Publication:

Stuttgart : Edition Axel Menges, [1996]

Summary:

Otto Ernst Schweizer, 1890-1965, architect, philosopher and teacher, had a crucial effect on the path of Modern architecture with both his projects and his writings. He was trained in the school of Theodor Fischer, and made a name for himself both by his early works and competition entries in the Expressionist period, for example for the high-rise building in Friedrichstrasse in Berlin or a new design for Munsterplatz in Ulm.

He gained international recognition with his buildings in Nuremberg in the late twenties, the Labour Exchange, the Planetarium, the sports facilities and the central Milchhof, with his stadium for the city of Vienna and his ideal design for a metropolis, developed as a reaction to Le Corbusier's "Ville contemporaine" and "Plan voisin de Paris".

In the thirties, when he was forbidden to build, Schweizer, in the context of his teaching at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe, was concerned with a philosophy of architecture, with fundamental questions of building, which he was able to draw on after the war as suggestions for the redevelopment of cities that had been destroyed. In 1960 he built his last work, the Collegiate Building for the University of Freiburg, his architectural large form, which again showed his spiritual attitude and the formal language that he had developed in the twenties and thirties, and that reached on into the new period after 1945 without losing its validity.

Immo Boyken is Professor of Architectural History at the Fachhochschule Konstanz. He is particularly interested in late 19th-century architecture and classical Modernism. He had a major involvement in the great monograph on the work of Egon Eiermann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-303).

ISBN:

3930698013

OCLC:

36987961