Jörg Schlaich

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Olympic Stadium Munich
Killesbergturm Stuttgart (Photo: 2010)

Jörg Schlaich (born October 17, 1934 in Stetten im Remstal ; † September 4, 2021 in Berlin ) was a German civil engineer .

Life

Jörg Schlaich was born in 1934 as the son of the Protestant pastor Ludwig Schlaich , the head of the Diakonie Stetten . He attended school and high school in Stetten, Heilbronn and Waiblingen and also trained as a carpenter (Abitur and journeyman's examination in 1953) and then studied architecture and civil engineering in Stuttgart and at the TU Berlin. In 1959/60 he was a Graduate Assistant and Lecturer for Reinforced Concrete Structures at the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, where he obtained his master’s degree in 1961. From 1961 to 1963 he was a design engineer at the Ludwig Bauer company in Stuttgart and at the same time worked on his dissertation, which took place in Stuttgart in 1963(The vault effect in continuous reinforced concrete slabs) . From 1963 he was a design engineer in the engineering office Leonhardt und Andrä in Stuttgart, where he became a partner in 1970. He stayed that way until 1979 when he founded his own engineering office. From 1974 to 2001 he was Fritz Leonhardt's successor professor for solid construction at the Institute for Construction and Design at the University of Stuttgart .

Jörg Schlaich was a globally recognized specialist for unconventional engineering structures . He became known, among other things, for filigree pedestrian bridges, high steel towers and elaborate rope net constructions, with which he broke new architectural ground.

He saw himself significantly influenced by Fritz Leonhardt, the planner of the Stuttgart television tower , the very first television tower, which was followed by numerous others around the world.

In 1980, Schlaich founded the engineering office Schlaich Bergermann und Partner with Rudolf Bergermann, based in Stuttgart, Berlin and New York.

His son Mike Schlaich is professor for solid construction at the TU Berlin . His sister Brigitte Peterhans (1928-2021) was a German-American architect and partner at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill ; she was married to the photographer Walter Peterhans .

Jörg Schlaich died in September 2021 at the age of 86.

factories

In cooperation with Günter Behnisch and Frei Otto he designed the roof of the Munich Olympic Park , in 1979 he built the Vidyasagar Setu (or Second Hooghly Bridge) in Calcutta, India (opened to traffic in 1992 after a construction period of 13 years) and in 1973 together with Walter Neuhäusser the Alster swimming pool in Hamburg. He was a member of the “Think” group, which narrowly missed the bid to rebuild the destroyed World Trade Center with its design for the Freedom Tower .

1983 to 1984 was designed by the architect Gottfried Böhm with Jörg Schlaich the Züblin -House in Stuttgart-Möhringen , the award-winning corporate headquarters of Ed. Züblin AG. The membrane roof of the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium is also a design by Jörg Schlaich from 1992. From 2010 to 2014, Schlaich planned the Arena da Amazônia football stadium in Manaus , Brazil .

He designed numerous bridges:

Ore railway swing arm (Photo: 2008)

One of his most noticed proposals concerns the updraft power plant ; nevertheless it has so far not got beyond a test facility. In Australia, such a solar power plant is now to be built by the company EnviroMission Limited.

In 1999, the Schlaichturm, a 24-meter-high observation tower with a filigree rope net construction, was opened in Weil am Rhein for the state horticultural show. In 2001, the similarly constructed 43 m high Killesberg tower followed in Stuttgart , completed in the Killesberg Park .

Together with Rudolf Bergermann, Schlaich handed over his work archive to the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Exhibitions, honors and awards

Fonts

  • The updraft power plant. Electricity from the sun. Simple - affordable - inexhaustible. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-421-03074-X .
  • The solar updraft tower. An affordable and inexhaustible global source of electricity. = Updraft power plants for solar power generation. Bauwerk-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-934369-51-0 .
  • with Matthias Schüller: engineering manager Baden-Württemberg. Published by the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Engineers. Bauwerk-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-934369-01-4 .
  • with Rudolf Bergermann: easy far - Light Structures , Prestel 2003 (exhibition Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt)
  • Hartmut Scheef: concrete box girder bridges , IABSE, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-85748-032-7 .
  • with Erwin Heinle: domes of all times - of all cultures , DVA, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-421-03062-6 .

literature

  • Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work . Ernst & Son , 2003.
  • Alan Holgate: The Art of Structural Engineering - The Work of Jörg Schlaich and his Team . Edition Axel Menges, 1996.
  • Annette Bögle, Karl-Eugen Kurrer : Jörg Schlaich and the Stuttgart School of Structural Engineering . In: Federal Chamber of Engineers (Ed.): Ingenieurbaukunst 2015 . Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2014, pp. 160–171.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Civil engineer Jörg Schlaich is dead. In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur "Kulturnachrichten". September 6, 2021, accessed September 8, 2021 .
  2. ↑ https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.zum-tod-des-bauingenieurs-joerg-schlaich-ein-meister-der-eleganz.77ed4c06-77cb-4ae9-bd0a-a214b3a82271.html?reduced=true
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Jörg Schlaich (2002): CV. In: Siemens-Ring.de. Retrieved September 8, 2021 .
  4. ^ Gerhard Matzig: The bridge builder. Jörg Schlaich combines architecture with great engineering . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 17, 2014, p. 13.
  5. ^ Farewell to the university: Jörg Schlaich and Kurt Schäfer. In: Stuttgart unikurier. No. 88, December 12, 2001, archived from the original on November 1, 2014 ; accessed on September 8, 2021 .
  6. ^ Brigitte Peterhans obituary notice. In: 2021-01-21. Retrieved September 8, 2021 .
  7. ↑ Lydia Kotzan: New in the Archive: Szyszkowitz-Kowalski and Schlaich Berger man. In: Bauwelt 22, June 4, 2010, p. 4
  8. ^ Prize for Stuttgart civil engineer. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 17, 2008, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; accessed on September 8, 2021 .
  9. ↑ RVR bridge over the Rhine-Herne Canal receives European bridge construction award. In: Information Service Ruhr. August 13, 2010, accessed September 8, 2021 .
  10. ^ High Energy - Engineering-Building-Culture: Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Bergermann. In: adk.de. Retrieved September 8, 2021 .
  11. ↑ Prize winners 2014: Gänsebachtalbrücke in Thuringia and Erba-Steg in Bamberg are the winners. In: brueckenbaupreis.de . Archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; accessed on September 8, 2021 . Railway bridge "Gänsebachtalbrücke". (pdf; 11.7 MB) In: 2014 Deutscher Brückenbaupreis: Documentation 2014. March 26, 2015, pp. 4–5 , accessed on September 8, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Schlaich, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer and university professor
BIRTH DATE October 17, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Stetten in the Remstal
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Berlin