Hans Bandel

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Grave of Hans Bandel in the Dahlem forest cemetery in Berlin

Hans Bandel (born December 30, 1918 in Berlin ; † October 24, 2003 in Berlin) was a German post-war architect. He belonged to the war generation who rebuilt West Berlin .

Life

Hans Bandel was born in Berlin-Steglitz . His father, Franz Bandel, was an auditor from East Prussia, his mother Charlotte, née Pudolleck, came from Fürstenwalde. In May 1951 Hans Bandel married Gabriele geb. Schultz in Berlin. Their three daughters Sibylle, Anne and Christine were born in 1952, 1958 and 1963.

Hans Bandel died in 2003 at the age of 84 in his apartment in Berlin-Charlottenburg . His grave is in the Dahlem forest cemetery .

Education and early working years

After completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1937 to 1939, he was called up for military service in November 1939. He served in the 3rd Railway Battalion for three years in France and two and a half years in Russia. In the winter of 1945 he began studying architecture with Klaus Müller-Rehm at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin. After completing his studies in 1951, he worked as a freelancer in Sep Ruf's office in Munich. In 1953 he returned to Berlin to work as an employee at Klaus Müller-Rehm.

1956-1996

He started as a freelance architect in 1956 with first prize in the competition for the Carl-Sonnenschein-Schule in Berlin-Tempelhof, which is now a listed building . He received the art prize of the city of Berlin in the field of architecture “young generation” in 1961. After building the elementary school on Mariendorfer Dardanellenweg and several residential and commercial buildings, he played a key role in the construction of the Neukölln Gropiusstadt housing estate in the 1960s. He is considered a conceptual mediator between Walter Gropius and the Berlin Senate in your implementation. Together with Rolf Gutbrod, he developed the building concept for the eastern part of the estate (Tagesspiegel). From 1976 he took over the execution of the Bauhaus archive designed by Walther Gropius on the Landwehr Canal. As a contact architect at the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin, Hans Bandel worked as a coordinator for Walter Gropius and his office The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge (Massachusetts) .

“Building in existing structures is a focus of Bandel's late building work. In the mid-eighties, for example, he built an operational building for the BVG on Trebbiner Strasse opposite the Museum of Transport and Technology. ”(Tagesspiegel) He was particularly interested in urban planning. In numerous projects, such as the Cunostraße property in Berlin-Wilmersdorf , he paid particular attention to urban planning.

Hans Bandel has always seen building as a service to the city and its residents. In his opinion, architecture critics are too impressed today by the facades of the houses. Too seldom paid attention to whether the rooms inside the building were also successful: "Architecture is above all the creation of spaces".

Hans Bandel belonged to the war generation that rebuilt West Berlin. The search for clarity of form, even in the smallest structural detail, and for a varied spatial effect of the interior and exterior spaces shaped his architecture. The once provocative 'Bauhaus architecture' was clearly a guideline and yardstick for him. The question of the floor plans in the narrow corset of social mass housing construction always challenged him.

archive

The drafts of the most important buildings are in the Berlinische Galerie , his student and his study work, which occupied him after the closure of his office until shortly before his death, are in the architecture archive of the Technical University (TU) Berlin.

Works in Berlin (selection)

  • Carl-Sonnenschein-Schule, Mariendorf , 1956
  • Berlin exhibition, AMK, Charlottenburg , 1962
  • Helmuth-James von Moltke School, Charlottenburg, 1962
  • Housing construction Gropiusstadt , BBR, 1964
  • Wutzky Shopping Center, BBR, 1964
  • Bandel House, Dahlem, 1965
  • Housing construction Waldsassener Str., Marienfelde, 1967
  • Bauhaus Archive , Schöneberg, 1975–1977
  • Apartments Cunostrasse, Schmargendorf, 1978
  • BVG office building and workshop, 1980
  • Apartments Woltmansweg, Lichterfelde, 1982
  • Office building Bendzko Immobilien, 1991–1992

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Bandel - Life
  2. ^ Frank Peter Jäger: Service to the city. In: Tagesspiegel , December 29, 1998; accessed on September 11, 2015.
  3. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 577.
  4. ↑ Berlin-Mariendorf List of Monuments09055075 .
  5. ↑ Carl Sunshine School . Monument database
  6. ^ Hans Bandel - Gropiusstadt
  7. ^ Frank Peter Jäger: Service to the city, for the 80th birthday of Hans Bandel . In: Der Tagesspiegel , December 29, 1998
  8. ↑ Hans Bandel
  9. ^ Peter Pfankuch : House of Berlin Exhibitions. In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 6, 1964.
  10. ↑ About the district . District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  11. ↑ Tour of BBR . In: Bauwelt , 1968, 16/17, p. 451
  12. ^ Shop center in Gropiusstadt Berlin. In: Architecture and Living. 1973, No. 2, pp. 90f.
  13. ^ Hans Bandel - Projects
  14. ↑ Article (PDF) in the Bauwelt .
personal data
SURNAME Bandel, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect of the post-war period
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2003
Place of death Berlin