Albrecht Michler

Former homeless shelter (1908), Kastanienallee 2, by Karl Krepp, Friedrich Mahler and Albrecht Michler

Albrecht Michler (born November 8, 1877 in Vienna ; † March 25, 1956 there ) was an Austrian architect and city architect.

Life

Albrecht Michler attended the structural engineering department of the Vienna State Trade School , which he graduated in 1896. After a few years as a draftsman , he studied from 1900 to 1903 at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Otto Wagner , where he worked more closely with his classmate Friedrich Mahler . After obtaining the master builder's license in 1905, the two founded a company together, which Karl Krepp also joined in around 1910 . The company operated successfully until the First World War and was able to carry out a number of public municipal construction projects. After the war, the company seems to have been dissolved and Michler worked alone, now specializing in technical projects such as road construction, drainage and the construction of thermophore chimneys.

meaning

Albrecht Michler began with promising drafts that processed the ideas of the Wagner school in an independent way. The only building realized by Michler alone shows the historicist-secessionist hybrid forms typical of the time. In the projects jointly set up by Krepp, Mahler and Michler, Michler's special share can no longer be determined today. The focus of his activity obviously shifted from the artistic to the technical side.

Works

• Execution of the Wiener Frauenheim , Frauenheimgasse 2, Vienna 12 (1906), together with Karl Krepp and Friedrich Mahler
• Asylum for the homeless , Kastanienallee 2, Vienna 12 (1908), together with Karl Krepp and Friedrich Mahler
• Post and Telegraph Office , Taubstummengasse 7–9, Vienna 4 (1909)
• Execution of the central vocational school, Mollardgasse 87, Vienna 6 (1909–1911), together with Karl Krepp and Friedrich Mahler
• Grain store (now a hotel), Handelskai 269, Vienna 2 (1911–1919), together with Karl Krepp and Friedrich Mahler
• Amusement Park Prater , Vienna 2 (1921)

Web links

• Albrecht Michler. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.