Günter Nagel (landscape architect)

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Günter Nagel (born February 2, 1936 in Dresden ) is a former German landscape architect and university professor .

Life

Günter Nagel was born on February 2, 1936 in Dresden. He passed his Abitur at the local Kreuzschule . From 1954 to 1956 he completed an apprenticeship as a gardener . Still in Dresden, he gained professional experience as a landscape gardener until 1957 . From 1957 to 1961 he studied gardening and landscape design at the Humboldt University in Berlin , located in the Soviet sector , under Georg Pniower and Willy Kurth . When he had passed all the exams at the HU in the summer of 1961, he immediately moved to West Berlin, following a premonition of radical changes of a political nature . The HU then refused to give him the diploma . Nagel was able to present his completed training status to the Technical University in the West by means of this study book and supplementary examination interviews and received a diploma from the Technical University and became a research assistant at Hermann Mattern at the Institute for Garden Art and Landscaping. In the context of this occupation, which lasted from 1962 to 1970, Nagel developed a landscaping plan for Marl / Westphalia as well as for Ratzeburg in his early days with various diploma students .

From 1970 he received teaching assignments for landscape architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, the Berlin University of the Arts and the Technical University of Braunschweig . In the same year he opened the "Office for Landscaping Prof. G. Nagel". The planning begun by Mattern for the surrounding planting of the State Library under construction of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Tiergarten was completed and implemented by Nagel in the two following years after Mattern's death in 1971.

From 1974 to 1977 Nagel was professor for landscape architecture and ecological planning principles at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 1975 to the 1980s, the inner courtyards and outdoor facilities - paths, plants, terraces, seating steps, bicycle spaces, etc. - of the institutes for mathematics, physics and electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin were designed according to his plans. He also had ongoing exterior design assignments for the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences and the University of Hanover over a long period of time. In 1977 he accepted the call for a full professorship for green planning and garden architecture at the University of Hanover . His main research interests were: Basics of the development of general and special green spaces, urban development and urban renewal . From 1986 to 1988 he was university vice-president. He held various other functions within the university, including in the departmental council of the Department of Land Care / Landscape Architecture and Environmental Development, in the library commission and the commission for international university affairs. In March 2001 he retired .

The following examples speak for the diversity of his areas of application: In 1988/89 he took part in the conception for an application to host the 2004 Summer Olympics in Hamburg in the form of maps, sketches, aerial photographs and the like. As co-project manager, he oversaw a planning report for the bear and elephant enclosure in Hanover Zoo in 1989/90. In 1997/98 he developed a comprehensive concept for the 2009 Federal Garden Show in Schwerin .

In 1995 he formed an office community with Christoph Schonhoff. The archive of the Akademie der Künste holds over 8000 architectural plans for inspection. Günter Nagel's documents are kept at the University of Hanover.

Maxim

In his positions on contemporary landscape architecture , a lecture given at the symposium "The artificial paradise - garden art in the field of tension between nature and society" (1996, printed 1997), he explained which three aspects every work of garden art and landscape architecture must satisfy. First of all there is the usage aspect, i.e. the social function, which includes fruit trees, vegetable patches and ornamental plants on the one hand, and opportunities for play and recreation, experiencing nature or garden therapy on the other . The second aspect is the ecological aspect, i.e. the relationship to the biosphere , which takes into account the interplay of soil, climate, plants, animals, microorganisms and people. Aspect number three is shape. This is about shape, style, beauty, aesthetics, garden art. The task is to "bring the usage aspect and the ecological aspect to a concise form".

Works (selection)

If only the buildings are listed, it is actually their functional and aesthetic environment (greenery, seating, etc.).

Landscape planning

  • 1962/63: Landscaping planning, Marl / Westphalia
  • 1964/65: Landscaping planning, Ratzeburg
  • 1972/73: Landscape framework plan Gießen - Wetzlar (with Jürgen Dirk Zilling)
  • 1976/77: Landscape plan Nördliche Okeraue , Braunschweig
  • 1991/92: Environmental impact assessment for the expansion of the lower Hunte
  • 1993/94: Master plan overall concept / landscape plan, Burgdorf
  • 2001: accompanying landscape conservation plan, Barsinghausen

Urban planning

Outdoor spaces / living environment

Public green spaces

Cultural buildings

School buildings

University buildings

Sports facilities

Hospitals

  • 1976–1980: Oskar-Helene-Heim in Berlin, 1st phase of renovation
  • 1976–1980: New hospital building in the Evangelical Johannesstift, Berlin-Spandau

Administrative buildings

Industrial and commercial buildings

Awards

In addition to numerous prizes in ideas and implementation competitions:

Memberships and jury activities

Günter Nagel joined the board of trustees of the Karl Foerster Foundation for Applied Vegetation Science, founded in 1965, and was its chairman from 1976 to 1986. In 1976 he became a member of the German Society for Garden Art and Land Care. V. and 1978 the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects . Further memberships arose in the 1980s: member of the board of trustees of the Fritz Schumacher Foundation (1981), member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (1982), member of the West Berlin Academy of the Arts (1982), member of the German Werkbund (1984), member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects (1985) and member of the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Development Planning and Structural Research Hanover (1989), later, after the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany , still member of the scientific advisory board of the Leipzig Institute for Urban Development and architecture, the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (1992).

In 1986 he was elected Deputy Director of the Architecture Section of the Academy of the Arts and continued to exercise this function after the West and East Academy were merged. Finally, from 1997 to 2006 he held the honorary position of director of the section.

As a member of the board of trustees of the International Meeting Center St. Marienthal on the German-Polish border , the oldest Cistercian abbey in Germany, the development of the monastery complex and its surroundings as well as the design and implementation of a "garden of Bible plants" were part of his contribution.

From 1992 to 2000, Nagel worked as an expert reviewer for the German Research Foundation . Expert reports like tree reports were also part of his usual field of work.

In 2001 he co-founded the Center for Garden Art and Landscape Architecture (CGL) at the University of Hanover.

He sat in juries of urban planning competitions, but also, for example, in the jury of the exhibition competition “da! Architecture in and from Berlin 2005 ”by the Berlin Chamber of Architects. In addition, he was part of the jury selection committee for the Lenné Prize and was a juror himself in this regard.

Fonts

Books and book chapters (selection)

  • involved as project manager in: Landscaping planning Marl. Task, inventory, planning. Appendix: Green development plans and excerpts from diploma and student theses. Institute for Landscaping and Garden Art at the Technical University of Berlin (ed.). Patzer Verlag, Hanover / Berlin / Sarstedt 1967.
  • Gardens in Cornwall . A contribution to the typology of the landscape garden. In: Contributions to the problem of the relationship between open space and building. Festschrift Herta Hammerbacher , the garden and landscape architect and university professor on her 75th birthday. Edited by Axel Jacobshagen, Karin Sommer-Kempf. University library of the Technical University of Berlin, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-7983-0543-9 .
  • together with Jürgen Dirk Zilling: Freiräume in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Inventory, analysis, concept. The Senator for Building and Housing, Berlin, in collaboration with the Kreuzberg District Office of Berlin, Building Department, City Planning Office (ed.). Construction and Housing, Berlin 1979.
  • together with Hermann Kokenge : Green functions in the Port of Hamburg. Publication of the Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture and the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - Authority for Economy, Transport and Agriculture, Electricity and Harbor Construction. University of Hanover, Hanover 1982.
    • Volume 1: Order of the free space functions. Concepts for open space planning.
    • Volume 2: Analysis and suitability assessment of the free space functions.
  • together with Ursula Kellner: Effects of residential streets on the supply of open spaces (= contributions to spatial planning ; Volume 2). Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture, Hanover 1982, ISBN 3-923517-00-9 .
  • together with Friedrich Spengelin , Hans Luz : Living in the cities? (Building in the landscape.) City shape, city structure, design, form of living, living environment. (Land destruction, national culture.) Druckhaus EA Quensen, Lamspringe 1984, ISBN 3-922805-11-6 .
  • together with Ursula Kellner: Quality criteria for the use of public open spaces (= contributions to spatial planning ; Volume 16). Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture, Hannover 1982, ISBN 3-923517-08-4 .
  • Nature as art. Landscaping and garden architecture. In: From Laves to today. About state building culture. 1814-1988 . Published by the Lower Saxony Foundation under the direction of Günter Krawinkel. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-528-08736-6 .
  • Green system and urban space (= contributions to spatial planning ; Volume 29). Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture, Hanover 1982, ISBN 3-923285-24-8 .
  • City landscape. In: Urban planning. Yearbook 1992/93. German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning (Ed.). Edition StadtBauKunst, Berlin / Hamburg 1992.
  • City in the landscape - houses in the gardens and The landscape - natural space and cultural landscape . In: Werder on the Havel. On-site seminar in Werder an der Havel. 6-12 June 1995. Documentation. Editing: Günter Nagel, Detlef Karg , Michael Kraus. Academy of Arts, Architecture Department, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-88331-999-6 , pp. 6 f and 8 f.
  • together with Sigrid Pietzsch, Dirk Scholz, U.Wolf: The St. Marienthal Monastery and the City of Ostritz . Concept for the development of the cultural landscape (= publications of the International Meeting Center St. Marienthal ; Volume 3). Published by Clemens Geißler , Hanover, on behalf of the St. Marienthal International Meeting Center Foundation . International Meeting Center St. Marienthal Foundation, Ostritz 1997, ISBN 3-933057-02-7 .
  • Urban landscape - structure principle in the agglomeration. In: Sustainability in Urban Development. Lower Saxony Ministry for Women, Labor and Social Affairs , Hanover 2000.
  • several articles in: Perspektiven der Baukunst. Shape and deformations. Meeting of the architecture departments of the academies of the arts in Germany. October 29 - November 1, 2005, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Pariser Platz 4 (= notes on the time ; 38). Published by the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-88331-106-7 .

Journal articles (selection)

  • together with Jürgen Dirk Zilling: Recreation in Berlin. In: Garten + Landschaft , issue 3/1973.
  • The importance of green for people's quality of life in urban areas - parks, squares, streets. In: Gemeinde - Stadt - Land , Issue 4/1979.
  • A general green plan for Neustadt am Rübenberge. In. Garden + Landscape , issue 9/1988.
  • New living landscapes - greenery close to home. In: Landscape architecture , issue 1/1993.
  • together with J. Bauer: Maintenance and development concept for the outer green belt, Cologne (south). In: Das Gartenamt , issue 4/1993.
  • Positions in contemporary landscape architecture. First in: Die Gartenkunst , issue 1/1997, pp. 119–129. (Also special print, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft Worms 1997.)
  • Viewpoints of today's landscape architecture. In: Garten + Landschaft , issue 12/2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Günter Nagel: Biography and selected catalog of works and writings . In: Gilbert Lösken, Norbert R. Schittek , Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (eds.): Festschrift on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Günter Nagel (=  contributions to spatial planning. Series of publications by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Development at the University of Hanover . Issue 65). University of Hanover, Hanover 2001, ISBN 3-923517-52-1 , p. 253–268 (title from the table of contents; deviating article title: Biographical information on Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Günter Nagel ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Eva-Maria Barkhofen (ed.): Architecture in the archive. The collection of the Academy of Arts . DOM Publishers, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86922-492-3 , Günter Nagel, p. 276 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Baukunst - members. Günter Nagel. Garden and landscape architect. In: adk.de. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c Ehrhardt Mahler: Laudation to Prof. Günter Nagel for the award of the Peter Joseph Lenné Medal of the Lenné Academy for Horticulture and Garden Culture. V. on November 1, 2018 at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In: lenne-akademie.de. 2018, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Jan Gehlsen: "The ancestors of the CGL" - A conversation with Prof. em. Dipl. Ing. Günter Nagel . In: Irmela von der Lühe , Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Ed.): Landscapes - Gardens - Literatures. Festschrift for Hubertus Fischer (=  CGL Studies . Volume 19 ). AVM Edition, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-95477-017-5 , pp. 111-119 .
  6. ↑ a b office. In: nsp-la.de. Christoph Schonhoff, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  7. ^ Günter Nagel archive. Short biography / history of the institution. In: adk.de. Academy of the Arts, accessed April 22, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Susanne Weisser: Living in old age - garden in old age . In: Harald Blonski (Ed.): The diversity of living in old age. Models, experiences, decision support . Mabuse-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-940529-05-3 , Garden between nature, use and design, p. 57-84 .
  9. ↑ there! From Berlin 20o05. Chamber of Architects calls for participation in the exhibition. In: baunetz.de . Stephan Westermann, December 3, 2004, accessed on April 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Manuela Damianakis: Awarding of the Peter Joseph Lenné Prize 20004. Press release of October 22, 2004 . In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Urban Development, October 22, 2004, accessed on April 22, 2020 .

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personal data
SURNAME Nagel, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden