Bernhard Klein (architect)

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Bernhard Klein (2018)

Bernhard Klein (* 1953 ) is a German architect , urban planning historian and university professor . From 1997 to 2019 he taught as a professor for design and urban planning at the Bauhaus University Weimar .

Life

Klein studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and graduated in architecture with Dolf Schnebli in 1980 . From 1980 to 1981 he worked as an assistant for architectural design with guest lecturer Theo Hotz , architect SIA / BSA, at the ETHZ, and until 1995 in his architectural office as a freelancer. In 1986 Klein took on an assistantship at the ETHZ and after receiving his doctorate as Dr. sc. techn. In 1991 he received a lectureship in urban history from André Corboz . From 1993 to 1994 he held the substitute professorship for the history of urban development at the ETHZ, which from 1994 to 1995, also at the ETHZ, was a lecturer in the history of urban development with Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani . From 1995 to 2000 he taught as a professor of architectural theory at the Department of Landscape Architecture , University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil . In 1995 he accepted the professorship for modern building history , architectural theory and urban planning history at the Stuttgart University of Technology . In 1997 he accepted the professorship for design and urban development at the Bauhaus University Weimar . Research stays led him a. a. to the University of Toronto , the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Miami .

Klein is regarded as an expert on the history and theory of European and US urban planning, was the first to trace today's conflict between compact urban design and diffuse urban fog back to economic ideas of the 18th century and clearly positioned himself in the iconology of the city as an analytical tool for urban planning Design.

Klein was part of the Zurich group of architects “Lynx” and from 1988 to 1991 was the scientific correspondent for the Swiss specialist journal Archithese . Since 1984 he has been a member of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects (SIA) and since 2000 also a member of the Thuringian Chamber of Architects .

Klein has lived in Weimar since 2000 , is married and has a daughter.

Awards

  • 1991: Prize and silver medal from the ETHZ for his dissertation "The physiocratic landscape of the city around 1800. Urban development and urban dissolution in the reality of Freiburg im Breisgau and in the utopia of the French revolutionary architect Ledoux" (Reviewer: Professors André Corboz , Kurt W. Forster and Werner Oechslin )

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Competition drafts (selection)

  • 1983: Landmark at the Landtag in Hanover, international urban development competition (1st prize winner / 1st stage)
  • 1999: Rebenareal / Old Town Arbon ideas competition, Canton Thurgau, together with Alexander Galliker, Dieter Geissbühler and Partners, Lucerne (2nd prize)
  • 2012: Schwarzburg Castle in Thuringia, ideas competition in a cooperative process, together with Christiane Hille, Gerd Fleischmann and Ulrich von Kebelsberg (1st prize)

Publications

Fonts (selection)

  • Bernhard Klein, The physiocratic landscape of the city around 1800. Urban development and urban dissolution in the reality of Freiburg im Breisgau and in the utopia of the French revolutionary architect Ledoux , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-89235-046-9
  • Bernhard Klein (text) and Paolo Roselli (photographs), Santiago Calatrava. Stadelhofen station, Zurich , Tübingen 1993, ISBN 3-8030-2710-1
  • Bernhard Klein (text), Theo Hotz (= catalog on the occasion of the exhibition in the Basel Architecture Museum from June 3 to August 7, 1994, published by the Basel Architecture Museum) , Basel 1994, ISBN 3-905065-23-1
  • Bernhard Klein, Aarau Bahnhofplatz. A place for Switzerland (= catalog book on the occasion of the exhibition "Aarau, Bahnhofplatz. A place for Switzerland" taking place in the Forum Schlossplatz Aarau from March 7th to April 27th 1997), Aarau and Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-9520941-1- 0

Articles (selection)

  • The Archework Papers. Edited by Stanley Tigerman. Review by Bernhard Klein. In: The Structurist, No. 49/50, 2009-2010, pages 116-119.
  • Paradis fantastique: centers, peripheries and the rest of Switzerland in the conception of the open image. In: archithese (city-landscape or landscape-city Switzerland: Lorzenstadt Zug in context), special issue 2000, pages 18 ff.
  • Jakob Zweifel architect. Second generation of Swiss modernism. Selected catalog raisonné. In: Jakob Zweifel architect. Second generation of Swiss modernism, Baden (Switzerland) 1996, pages 151 ff.
  • Ledoux et les physiocrates In: le visiteur - ville, territoire, paysage, architecture Revue de critique des situations construiteséditée par la Société française des architectes, issue 1/1995, pages 34 ff.
  • Political architecture as a human discipline: Expo 64, sector "Field and Forest" - Jakob Zweifel's structuralist answer to the frozen modernity. In: Art and Architecture in Switzerland, published by the Society for Swiss Art History, Volume 45, Issue 1/1994, pages 37 ff.
  • Santiago Calatrava and the Nebulous City. In: Dennis Sharp (Ed.), Santiago Calatrava, London 1992, pages 12 ff.
  • Theo Hotz: Newer buildings, selected catalog raisonné, recent projects. In: Werk, Bauen und Wohnen, Heft 11/1987, pages 20 ff. (Cf. Hubertus Adam, Ulrike Jehle-Schulte Strathaus, Philip Ursprung, Theo Hotz Architecture 1949–2002. Selected Buildings and Projects / Selected Buildings and Projects, Baden 2003, pages 230 ff.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Professorship Design + Urban Development II. Accessed April 5, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bernhard Klein: The physiocratic landscape of the city around 1800. Urban development and urban dissolution in the reality of Freiburg i. B. as well as in the utopia of the French revolutionary architect Ledoux (=  contributions to art history . Volume 46 ). scaneg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-89235-046-9 ( dnb.de [accessed April 8, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Klein, Bernhard: Sihlraum-Gestaltung? : Ideas competition for the design of the Sihl area between Sihlhölzli and the main train station in Zurich. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bernhard Klein: The physiocratic landscape of the city around 1800: Urban development and urban dissolution in the reality of Freiburg i. B. as well as in the utopia of the French revolutionary architect Ledoux (=  contributions to art history . Volume 46 ). scaneg, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-89235-046-9 ( d-nb.info [accessed April 5, 2019]).
  5. ^ Bernhard Klein: Bahnhof Stadelhofen, Zurich (=  Opus . No. 10 ). Wasmuth, Tübingen Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8030-2710-1 ( dnb.de [accessed April 5, 2019]).
  6. ^ Theo Hotz: an exhibition in the Architekturmuseum in Basel from June 3 to August 7, 1994 . AM, Basel 1994, ISBN 3-905065-23-1 ( dnb.de [accessed on April 5, 2019]).
  7. ^ Aarau station square - Forum Schlossplatz. Retrieved April 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Klein, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, building historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1953