Alexander Klein

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Alexander Klein (born June 17, 1879 in Odessa , then Russia ; † November 15, 1961 in New York City , New York , United States ) was a German and Israeli architect .

Life

Klein had been the city planning officer in St. Petersburg since 1913 and moved to Berlin in 1920 as a result of the Russian pogroms against the Jews . His aim was to make the small apartment floor plans with their many unproductive areas functional and economical. He developed the "corridor-less apartment" by replacing the dark corridor with a bright living room anteroom; In addition, it divided the floor plan into two room groups: living room, dining room and kitchen as well as bedroom, closet and bathroom. According to him, every type of floor plan should have “a specific depth and front length that corresponds to its usable area”; He published this concept in the specialist journal Wasmuths MONTHLY for architecture and implemented it in settlements ( building exhibition 1928 ) and residential buildings in Berlin, Leipzig and Merseburg . In 1933, Klein went to Palestine as a planning expert , where he became one of the country's most important urban and settlement planners.

plant

Buildings and drafts (incomplete)

  • 1906: 1st prize in the competition for the designs for the Peter the Great Hospital in St. Petersburg
  • 1910: S. Kaftal house in St. Petersburg
  • 1912: House AM in St. Petersburg
  • 1913–1914: Residential building at Kronwerkskij 5 in St. Petersburg
  • 1923: Villa Bernardo Davidsohn in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1923–1924: Housing development at Ballenstedter Strasse 14–16, Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1926: House M. in Berlin-Wilmersdorf (with Eberhard Encke )
  • 1926: Competition design for a cotton mill in Ivanovo- Voznesensk
  • 1925: Design for the perimeter development of the Tempelhofer Feld (with Ernst Serek)
  • 1925: Ravensberger Strasse rental house
  • 1925: Linden competition
  • 1927: drafts for row houses in Berlin-Dahlem
  • before 1928: small houses in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • before 1928: Rental house in Berlin-Wilmersdorf
  • 1928: Single-family houses and tenement houses in the settlement on Fischtalgrund
  • 1928–1929: Villa Dr. Schulz in Berlin-Dahlem, Dohnenstieg 24
  • after 1928: Villa Justizrat Klinke in Berlin-Dahlem, Warnemünder Strasse
  • 1928–1930: Large settlement for the Leuna works in Bad Dürrenberg (with Walter Gropius )
Bad Dürrenberg, Leuna, large housing estate

Fonts

  • Daily questions from the Berlin housing industry. In: Städtebau, 1925, issue 6.
  • The regulation of architectural competitions in Russia . In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development, 1925, issue 10.
  • Attempt of a graphical procedure for the evaluation of small apartment floor plans. In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , year 1927, issue 7.
  • Investigations into the rational design of small apartment floor plans . In: Die Baugilde, 1927, issue 22.
  • Three building options on a property in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . In: Bauwelt, 1927, issue 5
  • Modern housing construction - tasks in Russia . In: Bauwelt, 1927, issue 9.
  • Do we need entrance corridors in tiny apartments? In: Bauwelt 1927, issue 21.
  • Staggered, sloping single-family row houses . In: Bauwelt 1927, issue 32.
  • The redesign of the street "Unter den Linden" . In: Urban architecture in old and new times, vol. 8, 1927/28, issue 3.
  • Architect and housing (survey) . In: Die Baugilde, 1928, issue 19.
  • New method for examining small apartment floor plans . In: Städtebau, 1928, issue 1.
  • Comments on Russian Classicism from 1910 to 1915 . In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development, 1928, issue 8.
  • Layout and interior design of small apartments and new evaluation methods. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung, 1928, issue 34 and 35.
  • Contributions to the housing issue. In: Fritz Block (ed.): Problems of Building, Potsdam: Müller & Kiepenheuer 1928, pp. 116-145 (digitized version).
  • New method for examining small apartment floor plans. Comparison of the living properties of four small apartments with the same front length and construction depth (8.5 x 10 m) . In: Die Wohnung, born 1928–29, issue 3.
  • The single-family house, south type. Studies and drafts with fundamental considerations. Julius Hoffmann, Berlin 1934.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , 8/1926
  2. ^ A b c Klemens Klemmer: Jewish master builders in Germany. DVA, Stuttgart 1998.
  3. ^ A b c d e Elisabeth M. Hajos, Leopold Zahn: Berlin architecture of the post-war period. (= New Architecture of Big Cities , Volume 1.) Albertus-Verlag, Berlin undated (1928).
  4. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , 8/1928
  5. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , 5/1925
  6. ↑ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , 2/1926
  7. ^ Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , 6/1927
  8. ^ A b Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban planning , 2/1928
  9. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German and Israeli architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1961
Place of death New York City