Gerd Albers

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Gerd Albers (born September 20, 1919 in Hamburg ; † January 31, 2015 ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor . He taught at the Technical University of Munich and was temporarily rector of this university.

Life

Albers visited the Johanneum in Hamburg. Inspired by Gustaf Gründgens , his first career aspiration was that of a set designer. During the Second World War he last served as a lieutenant captain at sea . After the war, however, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Ludwig Hilberseimer . In Chicago he obtained a Master of Science and City Planning and thus his entry into urban planning. In Hanover, he was then a graduate engineer and he received his doctorate for Dr.-Ing.

In 1954 he worked in Trier . In 1959 he became the chief construction manager in Darmstadt . As early as 1961, he was offered the chair for urban development and regional planning at the Technical University of Munich, founded by Theodor Fischer . From 1965 to 1968 he was also rector of the university. He lives in Unterpfaffenhofen . In 1987 he retired .

In 1964 he founded the Stadtbauwelt together with Ulrich Conrads , Kurt Eggeling, Klaus-Jakob Thiele and Klaus Winter as a quarterly publication for architects, town planners and town planners.

Albers was President of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning and from 1974 to 1983 President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .

Albers once formulated that “most cities already exist, only they are not static and unchanged, but change. The planning tries to make the changes compatible with the existing cities, to avoid friction as much as possible and to intercept conflicts of interest between nature conservation, traffic and quality of living. ”
As the Association of German Architects in Bavaria wrote in 2015, he was considered“ the doyen of urban planning ".

honors and awards

Works, essays

  • What will happen to the city? Current issues in urban planning . Piper, Munich 1972, ISBN 9783492003278 .
  • Technology and design in urban development . In: Deutsches Museum - treatises and reports, 42nd year, issue 3, Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1974.
  • Renew, preserve, change: Alternatives for the environment . Callwey, Munich 1975, ISBN 9783766703590 .
  • Lines of development in urban planning. Ideas, theses, statements 1875–1945. In: Bauweltfundamente No. 46, Düsseldorf 1975.
  • Urban planning and historical heritage. In: Trier - 2000 years of urban development. Trier 1984, self-published by the building department of the city of Trier
  • Urban planning. A practice-oriented introduction . Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 978-3-89678-002-7 .
  • On the development of urban planning in Europe . Bauwelt Fundamente No. 117, Basel 1997, ISBN 978-3-0356-0256-2 .
  • Urban planning. An illustrated introduction . Primus Verlag, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 3896786210 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Conrads: Time of the Labyrinth: Observing, Reflecting, Establishing 1956-2006. Bauwelt Fundamente Volume 136, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2007, ISBN 9783764381912 , p. 229
  2. ^ Association of German Architects in Bavaria: Gerd Albers - The doyen of urban planning died . Press release from February 6, 2015.
  3. ↑ HafenCity University Hamburg mourns the loss of its first honorary doctorate, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Drs. Hc Gerd Albers , HafenCity University Hamburg, February 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Albers, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2015