Christian Norberg-Schulz

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Christian Norberg-Schulz (born May 23, 1926 in Oslo , Norway ; † May 28, 2000 there ) was a Norwegian architect , professor of architecture , author and architectural theorist .

Row houses by Arne Korsmo and Christian Norberg-Schulz, Pleinetveien (1955), Oslo, photo: 2014
Architectural photo of Planetveien 12, Arne Korsmo and Grete Prytz Kittelsen's detached house on Vettakollen in Oslo. The building was designed by Korsmo and Christian Norberg-Schulz and built in 1954. The house is considered to be one of the most important works of Norwegian modernist, functionalist architecture and is designed on the principle that all forms should fulfill a function. Photo: Teigens Fotoaterlier / Dextra Photo (1954).

life and work

Thorvald Christian Norberg-Schulz grew up in Oslo, Norway. He successfully completed his architecture studies in 1949 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . He then continued his studies in Rome and at Harvard University with a Fulbright scholarship . After receiving his doctorate in architecture in 1964 at the Norwegian Institute for Technology, he taught as a professor at Yale University in 1965 , from 1966 to 1992 at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and in 1974 as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department.

Norberg-Schulz belonged to the third generation of modern architecture, which questioned the dogma of technical functionalism and turned to architectural theory and building history . In the 1950s and 1960s he worked as an architect alone or with Arne Korsmo; Their row houses on Planetveien Street (1954) in Oslo, where they both lived with their families, were widely recognized. In 1963 the Universitetsforlaget Oslo published the original edition of his book "Intentions in Architecture", with which he gained international recognition and established his reputation as an architectural theorist. In 1965 the Ullstein Verlag Berlin published it in the series Ullstein Bauwelt Fundamente (15) under the title “Logic of Architecture” in the German translation by Joachim Neugröschel with a preliminary remark by Lucius Burckhardt . According to Burckhardt, Norberg-Schulz “placed architecture in a larger circle of reference”, placed it “in the dimensions of today's reality ”, referred to “the problem of adding up the mostly modern buildings”, asked about the “sense of functionalism in a wealthy one World, (...) after the audience did not understand the modern forms and (...) the meaning of these forms. "

These analytical and psychological concerns of his earlier writings were followed by fundamental investigations and pioneering books on building history and topographical phenomena of building and settlement such as “Vom Sinn des Bauens. The Architecture of the Occident from Antiquity to the Present ”(Stuttgart, 1979) and“ Genius Loci : Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture ”(1979), Genius Loci, Landscape, Living Space, Architecture (Stuttgart, 1982). In these works, Norberg-Schulz referred to Martin Heidegger . He was a pioneer of the "architectural phenomenology " and the " phenomenology of the place". He had a great influence on the development of postmodern architectural theories and sparked disputes. He also became internationally known for his contributions to the history of architecture, in particular to classical Italian architecture, the Baroque and monographs such as: B. via Louis Kahn .

Christian Norberg-Schulz was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts . In 1996 he received the Fritt Ord Honorary Award.

Private

In 1955 he married Anna Maria de Dominicis. The Norwegian opera singer Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is his daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Norberg-Schulz: Menneskenes bolig - man's home. In: https://www.arkitektur-n.no/# . Retrieved June 15, 2019 (Norwegian, English).
  2. ↑ Jorge Otero-Pailos: Norberg-Schulz's House The Modern Search for Home Through Visual Patterns. In: architecture norway. November 5, 2006, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Lucius Burckhardt: Christian Norberg-Schulz, Logic of Architecture . In: Ulrich Conrads (Hrsg.): Bauwelt Fundamente Ullstein . No. 15 . Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1980, ISBN 3-528-08615-7 , p. 5-6 .
  4. ↑ Andreas Denk: Die Brücke, Heidegger's “Place” and the term “Milieus”. In: the architect. BDA - Association of German Architects, June 13, 2017, accessed on June 16, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Matthias Schirren, Ulrike Weber MA: Seminar History and Theory of Architecture Genius Loci. A theme of architecture. TU Kaiserslautern, April 28, 2009, accessed June 15, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Eduard Führ: 'genius loci' phenomenon or phantom? In: Cloud Cuckoo Land. June 1998, accessed on June 15, 2019 (German).
  7. ^ Joseph A. Burton: Philosophical Differences in the Thoughts of Louis I. Kahn and Martin Heidegger. In: Cloud Cuckoo Land. 1998, accessed June 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Norberg-Schulz, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian architect, professor, author and architectural theorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo , Norway
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2000
Place of death Oslo , Norway