Friedrich Spengelin

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City Hall Helgoland (1957-60)
NDR building Hamburg-Lokstedt (1964–1967)
Trinity Church Hamburg-Harburg (1965)
Architectural building, University of Hanover (1965)
Rotenburg district building (1968)
House of the Church, Hamburg-Altstadt (1971–1974)
Großer Kurfürst residential complex , Neue Vahr (1972)
Kunsthalle Emden (1983–1986, 1997–2000)

Friedrich Spengelin (born March 29, 1925 in Kempten (Allgäu) ; † April 30, 2016 ) was a German architect , urban planner and university lecturer .

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Kempten, Spengelin studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich from 1943 to 1948 . He named Martin Elsaesser , Hans Döllgast and Robert Vorhoelzer as his most important teachers . In 1948 he obtained his diploma; thereafter he worked in Konstanty Gutschow's office in Hamburg until 1950 . In 1951 he married the architect Ingeborg Petzet ; since then both have had a joint office in Hamburg and from 1975 also in Hanover . From 1972 to the end of 2010 Spengelin worked in the planning association Spengelin, Gerlach und Partner (sgp) in Meckenheim and Bonn as the successor to the Spengelin office. His last important work there was the new chapel at the Stauferklinikum Schwäbisch-Gmünd with sgp Hachtel Bauer Architects BDA. Since 2011, his work has been limited to an advisory role. Starting with the first prize in the capital city Berlin competition in 1958 (with Fritz Eggeling and Gerd Pempelfort ), the office won over 80 prizes and purchases.

In 1961 Spengelin was appointed full professor to the chair for design at the Technical University of Hanover . In 1966 he switched to the chair for urban development, housing and regional planning, which he held until 1993, as the successor to Wilhelm Wortmann . From 1989 to 1997 he was director of the architecture department at the Academy of Arts in Berlin . Friedrich Spengelin had been a member of the Free Academy of the Arts Hamburg since 1966 .

The Spengelin office has developed urban planning in many German cities, such as Bonn , Bremen , Celle , Düsseldorf , Göttingen , Greifswald , Hamburg, Hameln , Kempten, Magdeburg , Meckenheim, Münster , Osnabrück , Trier , Ulm , Vorsfelde and Wuppertal . He was also responsible - together with Erich Kühn and Jürgen Gerlach - the overall urban planning of the town of Merl, which was independent until 1969 . It also prepared structural plans for the expansion of the universities of Bonn, Hanover, Münster, Osnabrück and Trier. Residential houses and residential quarters emerged in Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Hanover, Helgoland , Meckenheim, Wilhelmshaven and Wolfsburg , among others . Spengelin has published numerous publications on the subjects of urban planning, urban design and housing construction.

criticism

Spengelin's plans not only met with approval. The design of the station forecourt in Bonn has been criticized since the 1970s. The Bonn art historian Heinrich Lützeler published a critical contribution to the discussion in the Bonner General-Anzeiger. In the vernacular, the term »Spengelin-Gässchen« refers to the street »Am Hauptbahnhof«, which was felt to be too narrow and which was wider before the redesign. In contrast, some of Spengelin's buildings - such as the Eckernförde building trade school or the house of the church - have recently been placed under monument protection.

Memberships

honors and awards

buildings

Plan collection

  • Construction plans for the reconstruction of Heligoland are in the Schleswig-Holstein Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (AAI) in Schleswig.

literature

  • North Sea Museum Helgoland Foundation (ed.), Ulrich Höhns, Niels Gutschow : An island on the move. Heligoland 1952-62. Niederelbe-Verlag, Otterndorf 1990.
  • Ulrich Höhns: Excellent architecture. Fritz Schumacher Prize 1950–2000 and Heinrich Tessenow Medal 1963-2000. Christians Verlag, Hamburg 2000.
  • Construction world. 48th year 1957, volume 9 / 60th year 1969, volume 23 / 83rd year 1992, volume 25.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Spengelin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Spengelin obituary notice , Neue Presse (Hanover) , May 10, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c Obituary of the DAB
  3. ↑ a b Architecture Prize of the BDA Lower Saxony , in: Bulletin , Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA in Niedersachsen e. V., issue 3, October 1976, unpag. (P. 5)
  4. ↑ See Bartetzko, Daniel / Berkemann, Karin: Denkmalpflegerkirche Hamburg, in: moderneREGIONAL, June 27, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Spengelin, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Kempten (Allgäu)
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2016