Fred Freyler

Fred Freyler (born October 22, 1922 in Buenos Aires , † April 10, 1993 in Vienna ) was an Austrian architect and urban planner .

Life

Fred Freyler studied from 1945 to 1948 with the architect Franz Schuster at the University of Applied Arts Vienna . He worked for the city of Vienna in various areas of architecture and urban planning. In 1948 he carried out a study on the outskirts of Vienna on behalf of the city and their usability for sport and recreational purposes. In 1950 he worked for the urban rapid construction program after the Second World War and in 1952 he became an employee of the Research Center for Building and Housing. Freyler was a personal advisor to the mayor of Vienna, Leopold Gratz, who was in office from 1973 to 1984 . He was also a member of the Austrian Society for the Promotion of State Research and State Planning. In 1959 Freyler took part in the international architecture congress CIAM XI in Otterlo , which was important for the development of structuralism . One of his most important works as an architect is the listed youth hostel Hütteldorf-Hacking ( list entry ).

Fred Freyler was buried at the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 177, Row 5, No. 1).

Appreciation

In 2017 the Hietzing Adult Education Center , whose building was built according to his plans, dedicated an exhibition to him.

Works

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photo		Construction year	Surname	Location	description
		1955-1956	Single-family houses at Pokornygasse 31	Vienna 19, Pokornygasse 31 location	The group of single-family houses is located in the Vienna district of Oberdöbling . Freyler later designed another group of houses for the same property.
		1955-1956	Municipal residential complex Puchsbaumgasse 5–7	Vienna 10, Puchsbaumgasse 5–7 / Absberggasse 22–24 / Kudlichgasse 2–8 / Schrankenberggasse 21–23 Location	The strictly designed municipal housing in Favoriten was built according to plans by Fred Freyler, Othmar Augustin, Willy Grunert and Erich Lamprecht. It consists of two long, parallel block buildings and houses 176 apartments.
		1956-1957	Green room low-rise housing estate	Vienna 14, Flötzersteig 212 / Grüne Stube 1–20 Location	The facility in Hütteldorf , located next to allotment gardens, was created on the initiative of Fred Freyler. He also designed the interior for house 9.
		1956-1958	Youth hostel Hütteldorf-Hacking BDA-ID:  77665	Vienna 13, Schlossberggasse 8 location	The youth hostel of the City of Vienna in Hacking was built in place of the Hackinger Schlösschen . It is characterized by the clear shapes of the seven-story bed wing and bright common rooms on the ground floor. The appearance was changed by a later renovation.
		1957-1958	Anton Afritsch Children's Village	Thal , Anton-Afritsch-Weg 16 location	The first Austrian children's village, named after Anton Afritsch and run by Kinderfreunde , was designed by Fred Freyler together with Franz Jakubecky. The older Steinbergschlössl, which had served as a children's home until 1934, is integrated into the area.
		1960	Group of houses at Pokornygasse 31	Vienna 19, Pokornygasse 31 location	A group of single-family houses based on Freyler's plans had already been built on the property in Oberdöbling a few years earlier.
		1962-1969	House Dobling	Vienna 19, Gymnasiumstrasse 85 / Lannerstrasse 2–8 / Peter-Jordan-Strasse 1–13 / Vegagasse 20 location	The student residence of the City of Vienna in Oberdöbling was built in two stages (1962–1963 and 1968–1969). Originally it was an urban dominant building complex. The artistic equipment was done with works by artists such as Hubert Aratym , Joannis Avramidis , Wolfgang Hutter and Kurt Moldovan . The individual buildings were joined together by covered walkways. In 2013, three houses were demolished to make way for cooperative housing. The now significantly reduced Döbling house was renovated and renamed Base19.
		1962-1969	Residential complex Veitingergasse 159–169	Vienna 13, Veitingergasse 159–169 / Prehausergasse 4–6 / floor at Weg 10–14 location	The facility in Ober Sankt Veit consists of several residential buildings.
		1969-1970	Elementary school Klausenburger Strasse 25	Vienna 10, Klausenburger Strasse 25 / Tyrnauer Gasse 1 location	The eight-class elementary school of the City of Vienna, located in Favoriten , is grouped around a courtyard.
		1971-1974	Adult Education Center Hietzing Wikidata	Vienna 13, Feldkellergasse 1 / Hofwiesengasse 48 Location	The adult education center is located in the Speising district of Hietzing .
		1973-1978	Training center for social professions	Vienna 21, Schlosshofer Strasse 33–45 / Freytaggasse 32–36 / Patrizigasse 2 location	The architecture of the training center for social professions was a joint effort by Fred Freyler, Wilhelm Reichel, Hans Riedl and Walter Vasa. From 2009 the building complex in Floridsdorf was exclusively available to the Educational Institute for Kindergarten Education of the City of Vienna (BAKIP21), from which the Educational Institute for Elementary Education of the City of Vienna (BAFEP21) emerged in 2016.

Web links

Commons : Fred Freyler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Fred Freyler. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Residential complex Puchsbaumgasse 5–7  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf), Wiener Wohnen website , accessed on July 5, 2011.  
2. ↑ Town hall correspondence : June 11, 1963: Opening of the European Conference 1963 ( online version ).
3. ↑ Eric Mumford: The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 . MIT Press, Cambridge (Massachusetts) 2002, ISBN 0-262-13364-4 , p. 335.
4. ↑ Exhibition Thank you Fred Freyler! Retrieved September 13, 2017 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Christoph Freyer: Fred Freyler. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Architekturzentrum Wien, October 1, 2013, accessed on July 1, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Puchsbaumgasse 5-7. Wiener Wohnen, accessed on July 1, 2017 . 
7. ^ Dehio Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 247 .
8. ↑ ^{a b} carrier information. Society for Styrian Children's Villages, accessed on July 1, 2017 . 
9. ^ Dehio Vienna. X. to XIX. and XXI. to XXIII. District . Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-7031-0693-X , p. 567 .
10. ^ Institute for Educational Aid: Annual Report 2009. (Microsoft Word document) (No longer available online.) Institute for Educational Aid, May 2010, p. 17 , archived from the original on June 22, 2017 ; accessed on July 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ bakip21 is now called bafep21. (No longer available online.) Vienna Kindergartens (Municipal Department 10), archived from the original on June 23, 2017 ; accessed on July 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.