Degenhard Sommer

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Degenhard Sommer (born December 8, 1930 in Gerdauen ; † March 30, 2020 ) was a German architect and industrial builder.

Life

Degenhard Sommer, born as the son of a building contractor in Gerdauen in East Prussia, today's Schelesnodoroschny (Kaliningrad) , was able to do his Abitur in Eutin in 1951 after fleeing due to the war . After an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, he studied architecture at the TH Karlsruhe . A Fulbright scholarship enabled him to study with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago; he was able to travel to the USA with the grant from the Wyoming Foundation. In 1956/57 he worked as a designer at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) in Chicago. In 1958 he graduated from Egon Eiermann in Karlsruhe . In 1964 he became a Dr.-Ing. In Karlsruhe through "curtain walls as US experience with curtain walls". PhD.

In 1959 he co-founded the company "Lenz Planen und Beraten Gesellschaft", which with 500 employees had become one of the largest planning offices in Germany by the mid-1970s. Important summer projects with Lenz Planen & Beraten such as from 1974 with his office “Planning Group Prof. Sommer” in Karlsruhe were the “European Research Institute for Particle Physics” in Grenoble, the printing company of the “German Biblical Foundation” in Stuttgart-Möhringen, a weaving mill in Brazil , the broadcasting center in Manila, plants for Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Bosch as well as the “Mercedes Technology Center” of the Daimler Group in Sindelfingen.

In 1973 he was offered a professorship for the newly founded Institute for Industrial Construction and Interdisciplinary Building Planning at the Vienna University of Technology ; Reinhard Gieselmann (1969), Justus Dahinden (1974) and Rob Krier (1976) were appointed at this time, and Ernst Hiesmayr was dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture. In 2003 he retired. Since 1994 he was co-owner of the S + P planning group Prof. Dr. Sommer + Partner GmbH in Berlin.

The “International Industrial Construction Seminars” that were held in Vienna in the summer of 1980 to 2000 were internationally known. Degenhard Sommer had been a member of the Vienna Secession since 1978 and founded the “Austrian Study Group for Industrial Construction”, which awarded the Austrian “Industrial Construction Prize”. He was head of the working group “Working Places and Commercial Spaces” of the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) in Paris. At the Conseil International du Batiment (CIB) he was in charge of the industrial construction division. In particular, he worked with the German Industrial Construction Working Group (AIG).

Fonts

  • Handbook for the humane design of office buildings , Vienna 1977, ISBN 978-3-7035-0204-0
  • Handbook for the humane design of office buildings. Part 2: Furniture, equipment, work organization , Vienna 1982, ISBN 978-3-7035-0256-9
  • Industrial construction: The vision of the lean company , Birkhäuser Verlag 1993, ISBN 978-3-76432-806-1
  • with Christoph M. Achammer : Industrial buildings design , Picus-Verlag Vienna 1989, ISBN 978-3-85452-110-5
  • with E. Beneder, S. Agricola, WH Eiffler: Industriebau Europa, Japan, USA , Birkhäuser Verlag 1991, ISBN 978-3-7643-2555-8
  • with Toshitaka Asao: Industrial Building: Radical Restructuring , Birkhäuser Verlag 1993, ISBN 978-3-7643-2806-1
  • with H. Stöcher, L. Weißer, L. Eiber: Ove Arup & Partners: Ingenieure als Wegbereiter der Architektur - Engineering the Built Environment Philosophy, Projects, Experience , Birkhäuser Verlag 1994, ISBN 978-3-7643-2954-9
  • with B. Holletschek, L. Weiber: Architecture for the world of work: New buildings for industry and commerce in Austria , Birkhäuser Verlag 1996, ISBN 978-3-7643-5162-5
  • with Johannes Uhl: Industriebau Markt Macht Stadt: Praxisreport , Vincentz Hannover 1997, ISBN 978-3-87870-369-3

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  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar , Saur, 2003, p. 3213

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ newsletter of the Technical University of Vienna (issue 14/2020) (published on April 9, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b c d Christoph M. Achammer : Prof. Degenhard Sommer (1930 - 2020): an obituary. TU Wien, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Association of Friends and Graduates of the Vienna University of Technology: Bulletin No. 28 of October 2010. Vienna University of Technology, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Summer, Degenhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and industrial builder
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerdauen
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2020