Elise Sundt

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Elise Sundt , actually Elisabeth Sundt , (born March 11, 1928 in Vienna ; † August 20, 2005 there ) was an Austrian architect .

Live and act

Elisabeth Sundt was born in Vienna on March 11, 1928 and, after completing school education, supported by her father, an architect, began studying architecture at the Vienna University of Technology , which she graduated with a diploma in 1952. During her studies, she also met her future husband, who then worked in the same industry. As a student trainee , she worked on construction sites such as the Ennskraftwerk Mühlrading ( Ennskraftwerke AG ), the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna or the high-rise construction on the Margaretengürtel . After completing her studies, the graduate engineer worked in Vienna as the deputy head of Unimac (briefly for the Universale-Hofman & Maculan construction company headed by Rudolf Maculan ), at that time one of the largest foreign construction companies. At the same time, she was also the head of the company's planning department. During her work there, innumerable large building projects were planned and built. The main area of ​​responsibility at that time was the Kingdom of Afghanistan , but she was also involved in construction work in other countries and in her home country Austria. Mainly industrial plants, hospitals, administration, office and bank buildings were planned by her; She also planned the telephone switchboard and royal new foreign ministry in Kabul and worked on the renovation of the old town. She was also involved with the company in hotel and cinema projects, as well as the construction of power plants, pressure tunnels and a bridge near Baghlan .

Among other things, she performed pioneering work on projects such as the construction of factories and halls in simple prefabricated construction , taking into account the local earthquake risk . Sundt was also active in patent development; including the subway tube system in her hometown, the tension wire roof or in product development. From 1957 she ran her own architecture office, with which she developed and planned demonstration buildings for a so-called “Austrian Standard Post and Dialing Office” with a volume of 200 units in four different types for a standardized operational process. Later she devoted herself to the development of school and hospital pavilions, which she planned to be dismantled and reusable. In 1962, the first multi-storey turnkey school complex for the city of Vienna was built in the Rockhgasse using solid precast construction . At the same time, Sundt was also entrusted with the technical and business management for two other large school projects in Vienna in order to implement her know-how in the implementation technology there. One of these projects was the elementary and secondary school at Roda-Roda-Gasse 3 in the 21st district of Vienna. As the lead architect in a Viennese group of architects, a first large - scale experimental building was realized in the Per-Albin-Hannson-Siedlung Ost in 1971/72 .

In 1977/78 she was involved in the renovation of the listed baroque house "Zum green Kranz" at Taborstrasse 23 in the 20th district, with a neighboring new building and a shared underground car park. Furthermore, a bank pavilion was built in the 20th district of Vienna, the Adalbert-Stifter-Strasse private house in Lower Austria , various buildings and projects for the gendarmerie , the post office in Forchtenau near Forchtenstein , the office building in Retz , business premises, single-family houses, Biedermeier villas , hospital kitchens, bank branches and other structures. In 1981, the then 53-year-old was honorary for building officer appointed. In addition, Sundt was a long-time member of the section board of the Viennese architects and various committees.

Elise Sundt died on August 20, 2005 at the age of 77 in her hometown Vienna and was buried on September 2, 2005 in the family grave at Ottakringer Friedhof (group 37, row 4, number 3).

Others

A collection, mainly in German , of Sundt's writings, publications and documents from 1972 to 1988 is in the Special Collections department of the Newman Library at Virginia Tech .

In 2019 an exhibition about the "pioneers of architecture at the TH / TU Wien" took place in the dome hall of the Vienna University of Technology . In addition to Elise Sundt, there are numerous other architects at this exhibition such as Lucia Aichinger , Karola Bloch , Elizabeth Close , Dora Gad , Adelheid Gnaiger , Gusti Hecht , Ilse Koci , Helene Koller-Buchwieser , Brigitte Kundl , Edith Lassmann , Eva Mang-Frimmel , Ulrike Manhardt , Lionore Perin-Regnier , Melita Rodeck , Dita Roque-Gourary , Helene Roth and Slawa Walewa-Coen .

literature

  • Contribution . In: Architektur aktuell . Issue 86, December 15, 1981, pp. 21-23 .
  • Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 3: P-Z. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 3237 ( PDF ).
  • Ilse Korotin, Nastasja Stupnicki (eds.): Biographies of important Austrian scientists. "Curiosity drives me to ask questions". Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2018, ISBN 978-3-205-20238-7 , pp. 855–856.

Web links

Commons : Elise Sundt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A GUIDE TO THE ELISE SUNDT ARCHITECTURAL COLLECTION, 1972–1988 (English), accessed on May 22, 2019
  2. ^ Schule Roda-Roda-Gasse 3, 1210 Vienna , accessed on May 22, 2019
  3. ↑ Elisabeth Sundt on the official website of Friedhöfe Wien, accessed on May 22, 2019
  4. ↑ a b Pioneers of Architecture at the TH / TU Wien , accessed on May 22, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Sundt, Elise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sundt, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 2005
Place of death Vienna , Austria