Ernst Sieverts (architect)

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Century Hall Hoechst,
Architects: Ernst Sieverts and Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer (Photo: 2006)
Insurance company Am Wall, Bremen (Photo: 2012)
Administration building of IDUNA insurance, Münster (Photo: 2005)
Head office of DKV, Cologne (Photo: 2011)

Ernst "Mucki" Sieverts (born December 8, 1924 in Chemnitz ; † June 25, 2018 ) was a German architect .

Life

Ernst Sieverts studied architecture from 1946 to 1950 at the TH Braunschweig and the University of Cambridge . In 1949 he passed the English interpreting exam. In 1954 he started his research project “Spatial connections and spatial penetrations in architecture. A contribution to building design "to the Dr.-Ing. PhD.

He had been working in Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer 's architectural office since 1950 . With Günther Pfennig and Friedrich Wilhelm Kraemer he ran the office partnerships of Prof. Kraemer - Pfennig - Sieverts (short KPS ) from 1960 to 1974 , with Kraemer and other partners 1975 co-founder (until 1985) Prof. Kraemer Sieverts & Partner (short KSP ). His offices in Braunschweig and Cologne employed over 170 people in the early 1960s and received numerous prizes and awards.

He was a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) , the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (DASL) , and the Architects and Engineers Association (AIV) .

Buildings (selection)

  • Insurance company Am Wall 128/134 in Bremen (1956–1957)
  • Administration building of IDUNA insurance in Münster (1961)
  • Centennial Hall Hoechst in Frankfurt am Main (1963)
  • BP headquarters in Hamburg (1967–1971)
  • Simonbank in Düsseldorf (1968–1970)
  • Headquarters of the DKV in Cologne (1968–1970)
  • Administration building of IDUNA insurance in Essen (1970)
  • Office and commercial building of IDUNA insurance in Gelsenkirchen (1971)
  • State engineering school for mechanical engineering in Gelsenkirchen-Buer (1973)
  • Deutsche Bank Düsseldorf (1990)
  • Ministry of Public Works and Housing (1990) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Houses on Lessingplatz, Braunschweig (1995)

Fonts

  • Space connections and space penetrations in architecture. A contribution to building design , o. O. 1954 (Braunschweig, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 1954).
  • BASF - Ludwigshafen data center . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , 1966, pp. 274–279.
  • Open-plan offices , shown using the example of DKV Cologne, Stuttgart: Krämer 1968 (project; 5).
  • Location conditions of the constant surfaces in reversible office buildings . In: Bauwelt , 1973, pp. 124–125.
  • Office and administrative buildings , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1980, ISBN 978-3-17-005259-8 .
  • You can get more performance out of contemporary offices . In: Management-Zeitschrift, Vol. 55, 1986, pp. 421-424.
  • The ten commandments for employee-friendly offices . In: Management-Zeitschrift, Vol. 56, 1987, pp. 454-457.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Ernst Sieverts , FAZ from 7 July 2018
  2. ^ Obituary notice from Ernst Sieverts , Braunschweiger Zeitung, July 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Sieverts, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sieverts, Mucki (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 2018