Alexander Cvijanovic

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Amberg Glassworks (1968)
Bauhaus Archive (1979)

Alexander Cvijanovic (born December 19, 1923 in Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia , † May 7, 2019 in Boston ) was a Yugoslav-American architect . He was a close associate of Walter Gropius and a partner in The Architects Collaborative .

Life

Cvijanovic was born into an upper-class family. His father was Minister of Agriculture , his mother an opera singer. After his father was murdered by the communists, he fled Yugoslavia in 1946. He studied architecture in Paris. He emigrated to the United States and studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design . In 1954 he graduated.

From 1956 to 1986 he worked for Walter Gropius' The Architects Collaborative . The fact that Cvijanovic got a job at the renowned office The Architects Collaborative immediately after completing his studies was primarily due to his language skills. In addition to English, he speaks French and German.

Cvijanovic lived in Boston , where he died in May 2019.

buildings

Because of his knowledge of German, Cvijanovic was used in many projects in Germany:

  • In 1967 the Rosenthal am Rotbühl porcelain factory was inaugurated, and Walter Gropius and Alexander Cvijanovic were responsible for its construction .
  • In 1968, Cvijanovic planned the " glassmaker's cathedral " of the glass works of Thomas Glas- und Porzellan AG in Amberg .
  • The Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, which Gropius designed together with Cvijanovic for Darmstadt from 1964 to 1968 , Cvijanovic redesigned for its later location (planning and construction period 1976–1979).
  • Cvijanovic was also involved in Gropiusstadt in Berlin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A piece of Upper Palatinate in Boston. Amberg is Gropius city. In: oberpfalznetz.de. Medienhaus Der neue Tag "Der neue Tag - Oberpfälzischer Kurier" Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH, July 2, 2016, accessed on July 11, 2016 .
  2. ^ The Architects Collaborative. In: arch INFORM .
  3. ↑ architects.org , accessed on July 12, 2016 (English)
  4. ↑ a b A Man of Parts. Walter Gropius in Five Acts. In: architects.org. Boston Society of Architects / AIA BSA Foundation, 2013, accessed July 12, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Manfred Sack: We have a new factory. “Gropius builds for Rosenthal” - respectful and disrespectful things from Selb. In: ZEIT ONLINE. ZEIT ONLINE GmbH, October 13, 1967, accessed on July 12, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Glassmaker Cathedral. In: arch INFORM .
  7. ^ Gilbert Lupfer, Paul Sigel: Gropius . Taschen, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-8228-3531-5 , p. 89
  8. ↑ Bauhaus Archive. In: arch INFORM .
personal data
SURNAME Cvijanovic, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cvijanovic, Alex
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav-American architect, close collaborator of Walter Gropius
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2019
Place of death Boston