Curt Siegel (architect)

Curt Siegel (born March 11, 1911 in Brussels , † April 16, 2004 in Dornbirn ) was a German architect and engineer .

Life

Curt Siegel was the son of the German wood and stone sculptor Curt Siegel (1881–1950). He studied architecture and civil engineering at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1936 he received his doctorate there . During the Second World War he worked as an architect in Magdeburg . 1946 received a seal of reputation to the chair "Static for architects" to the School of architecture in Weimar . In 1950 he received a call to the Technical University of Stuttgart ; he fled from the newly founded GDR . In Stuttgart he was a full professor , initially for the subjects of statics and building construction, later also industrial construction, and finally supporting structures and structural design. Siegel also worked at five Latin American universities between 1965 and 1968 with seminars lasting several weeks. In 1970 he retired .

Act

Siegel became known for his didactic approaches in architectural training, especially in structural engineering. His basic teaching concepts, pictorial views and rather intuitively developed knowledge of the elementary operating principles of load-bearing structures are still valid today.

His textbook “Structural Forms of Modern Architecture” from 1960 has been translated into eleven languages.

Curt Siegel was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1968 at the University of Lima in Peru and in 1982 at RWTH Aachen University .

job

In 1953 he founded his own office together with Rudolf Wonneberg. Well-known buildings are the manufacturing institutes for mechanical engineering, the institute for statics and dynamics of aerospace structures and - together with Rolf Gutbier and Günter Wilhelm - the college building I of the University of Stuttgart. Furthermore, the State Museum for Natural History Stuttgart at the Stuttgart Löwentor and the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle .

Siegel was also involved in the reconstruction of the Dresden Frauenkirche. As a young architect, he documented the cracks in the over 200-year-old dome.

Fonts

• with Rudolf Wonneberg: Construction and operating costs of office and administrative buildings. 1979, ISBN 3-7625-1246-9 .
• with Kurd Alsleben, Erhard Büttner, Claus W. Hess, Wolfgang Schnelle, Rudolf Wonneberg: office building as a large area. New office building for CF Boehringer & Soehne GmbH, Mannheim. Goal setting, planning and experience.
• Structural forms of modern architecture. Callwey 1984, ISBN 3-7667-0171-1 .

literature

• Karl-Eugen Kurrer : The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 747 and p. 1062 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Curt Siegel in the catalog of the German National Library