Achim Felz

Achim Felz (born March 18, 1933 in Ückermünde ) is a German architect .

Life

Felz completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer before studying architecture at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar from 1953 to 1959 . He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Structural Engineering of the German Building Academy in Berlin , where, together with Wilfried Stallknecht and Herbert Kuschy, he developed new type floor plans and building concepts for industrial housing construction in the GDR , in particular the well-known type series P2 . From 1962 to 1966, Felz was head of the residential building department at VEB Type Project Planning and continued to work on the development of new type series and on variants motivated by urban planning. From 1966 to 1968 he worked at the Institute for Residential and Social Buildings of the German Building Academy (as head of the Housing Department) and from 1968 to 1990 at the Institute for Urban Development and Architecture (ISA), also at the Building Academy. From 1971 to 1977 Felz headed the experimental workshop there, then the redesign department and, since 1988, a design group. In 1970 he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. doctorate and appointed professor by her in 1979 . In 1990 he became self-employed as an architect (until 1998 with Peter Skujin and Peter Gohlke as partners) and designed, among other things, numerous residential buildings in the area surrounding Berlin.

At the ISA in particular, Felz was able to combine basic scientific work, which resulted in recommendations, guidelines and design principles (especially for the redesign of old building areas) with his own active design work and took part in numerous architecture competitions with great success . His urban development drafts, which went directly into planning practice and were structurally implemented, include: Design studies (collaboration: Ulrich Hugk), which became the basis for the development planning and the planning of replacement new buildings in a sub-area of ​​the old town of Greifswald (implemented together with Frank Mohr and Gerhardt Richardt between 1977 and 1981); Design for the Social Center in Berlin-Fennpfuhl ; Urban design for the planning for ( Leipzig -) Neu-Paunsdorf (together with Manfred Hultsch and Ludwig Krause). As chief architect of the GDR building exhibition on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin (1987), he designed the structural redesign of the Dynamo sports hall into the central exhibition hall; together with Horst Siegel , he also conceived a design proposal for the planned one (which was not implemented due to reunification ) Exhibition pavilion of the GDR for the world exhibition in Seville in 1992 , which he led until the project was ready.

Felz 'written premature legacy is in the scientific collections of the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) in Erkner .

Publications

• The basement and ground floor zone of multi-storey residential buildings , dissertation, Berlin 1970
• Babylon's daughters. Urban planning between past and future , Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben , 1983
• Between fireplace and full comfort. Housing construction from the hut to the skyscraper , Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1986
• Together with Karl-Heinz Brunner and Bettina Adermann (in cooperation with the urban development office of the district building office at the Berlin municipal authority): Building districts in Berlin. Accelerated construction of housing in the capital with the strength of the whole republic in 1985 and 1986 , Berlin: Bauinformation, 1987
• Monuments - preserved by us , Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1988
• Exposition de construction de la RDA 1987, Berlin - RDA , in: Architecture contemporaine / Contemporary architecture , Vol. 10 (1988/89), pp. 140-143, ISBN 2-85047-026-0

literature

• Holger Barth: Achim Felz. In: Holger Barth, Thomas Topfstedt u. a. (Ed.): From building artist to complex designer. Architects in the GDR. Documentation of an IRS collection of biographical data (= document series of the IRS , No. 3), Erkner 2000, p. 74, ISBN 3-934669-00-X .
• Paul Sigel, EXPOSED. German pavilions at world exhibitions , Berlin 2000, pp. 279–280, ISBN 3-345-00734-7