Gerhard Daum (architect)
Gerhard Daum (born May 5, 1931 in Innsbruck ; † October 2, 2013 there ) was an Austrian architect and designer .
education
Daum came from a bourgeois, aristocratic family of a court councilor . After attending elementary school in Innsbruck, he had to break off his humanistic secondary school education in the turmoil of World War II . After the war years, under his later mentor, he graduated from the HTL for structural engineering in Innsbruck with excellent success .
It was primarily the great architects of the Bauhaus era who influenced Daum in his work from the very beginning. However, the colors of Corbusier or the design language of John Lautner can also be found in Daum's design. After being awarded the engineering title, he gained experience in various architectural offices in Germany and abroad. He went on many city trips to study the feeling for the housing and living needs of the urban population. The fascination of the technical, the development of timeless design and the creation of a high quality living environment that offers a maximum of quality of life despite the high building density were his demands on his work.
Works outside of residential construction
In Innsbruck , Daum was the architect who, with the construction of over 3,000 apartments, probably contributed the most to the creation of private housing. In addition to residential construction, Daum took an early interest in art, culture, the church and the needs of the population. So he was able to set a monument at a young age by building the parish church Maria am Gestade and the Tivoli open-air swimming pool in Innsbruck.
Nogler & Daum
In the upswing of the early 1960s , Daum recognized the potential that was in Innsbruck . Due to the large amount of undeveloped land at the time and the rapidly increasing influx of rural populations into the city, Daum saw the opportunity to make a difference here. Together with his business friend Walter Nogler, he founded the property developer Nogler & Daum and built well over 3,000 apartments with him in the central city of Innsbruck.
Through the use of highly motivated, creative and freelance workers, Nogler & Daum created a breeding ground for new ideas and the development of some patents. The development by the employee Hans Oppitz led to a gentle, non-destructive and cheap drainage process which caused a stir in the industry. The patented ELkinet system has been used thousands of times around the world. The parliament building as well as the university in Budapest or the cathedral of Mexico City were successfully dried by the system from Nogler & Daum.
The time after Nogler & Daum
The Nogler & Daum company grew steadily until the late 1980s and became the largest property developer in the region. In the company conglomerate, however, there were also various construction companies, real estate managers and brokers, technical consulting offices and the planning office that still exists today.
Due to Nogler's sudden accidental death, dramatic succession events for the company and insurmountable differences with Nogler's successor, Daum was forced to leave the company. The company collapsed in the early 1990s due to a lack of competent succession .
After a quiet time as a court-sworn appraiser, Daum founded the new property developer Ing. Daum + Daum in 1994 with his wife Annerose. A link to the early size of Nogler & Daum was not a goal, but Daum was able to retain its special style and campaigned for the creation of high-quality living space for the city's population.
Individual evidence
Web links
- daum.at - Official website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Daum, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | innsbruck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd October 2013 |
| Place of death | innsbruck |