Heinrich Kosina

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Heinrich Kosina (born April 1, 1899 in Vienna ; † March 30, 1977 in Munich ) was an Austrian architect who lived in Berlin from 1920 and was one of the prominent representatives of New Building there .

Life

Heinrich Kosina studied in Vienna with Paul Roller , Josef Hoffmann and Carl Witzmann before moving to Berlin in 1920, where he worked in the office of the architect Erich Mendelsohn from 1921 . From 1922 to 1925 he worked with Paul Mahlberg before going into business for himself. After the Second World War he was mainly active in Austria and southern Germany. From 1946 to 1950 he worked as a vocational school teacher in Lofer , from 1951 he was employed in the planning office for Frankfurt Airport , and his last place of work was in Munich.

Kosina specialized in traffic structures from an early age; He designed the first hangars at Tempelhof Airport together with Mahlberg in the 1920s. Despite the small number of his buildings, he was one of the well-known architects in Berlin during the Weimar Republic . He was involved in the planning of the airports in Nuremberg and Szczecin , as well as those of Frankfurt Airport, Vienna-Schwechat Airport and At Palam Airport near New Delhi . He had an advisory role in the planning of airports in Romania , Spain and Poland .

Many of his works are e.g. Partly as a result of the war, not preserved. Kosina published airports of the future . He was a member of the Association of German Architects .

Buildings and designs

In Berlin

  • from 1923: halls of Tempelhof Airport (with Paul Mahlberg)
  • 1924–1925: Tourist Office of the City of Berlin (with Paul Mahlberg)
  • 1925: Academic reading room in Berlin
  • 1925: Design for a traffic tower for Alexanderplatz
  • 1925: Design for a traffic tower on the corner of Friedrich and Leipziger Strasse (with Paul Mahlberg and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe )
  • 1927: "Rheinlandhaus" with the Adlerwerke exhibition rooms
  • 1928: Airport garage
  • 1928: Gas station Hannoversche Strasse 5
  • 1928: car park garage and gas station
  • 1928: Translag garage
  • 1928–1929: Double dwelling at Löhleinstrasse 45 / 45a
  • 1928–1930: Mariengarten settlement in Marienfelde
  • 1931: House at Karolinenstrasse 4 in Zehlendorf
  • after 1933: Administration building for the Reich Association of Local Health Insurance Funds in Charlottenburg, Uhlandstrasse 195/196
  • after 1933: Apartment block Kurfürstenstraße 103-106 in Mariendorf
  • after 1933: Tegelorter Ufer group housing estate
  • after 1933: single-family house in Grunewald
  • 1955–1956: Extension buildings for the Catholic Salvator Church and the Christophorus Children's Hospital in Lichtenrade

and undated:

  • City tank
  • Design of large multi-storey car parks for Wilmersdorf
  • Design of a reception building for Tempelhof Airport (with Paul Mahlberg)

In other places

  • 1928: Exhibition room for the printing ink association of the Pressa exhibition in Cologne
  • 1930: Aluminum show at the Liège World Exhibition

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Vierhaus: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Band Hitz - Kozub. Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3-110-94653-6 , p. 883. ( limited preview in Google book search).
  2. ↑ Heinrich Kosina. In: arch INFORM ; accessed on March 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Leonhard Adler / Paul Westheim u. a .: Verkehrshaus der Stadt Berlin Design: Architects' office "Construction and Equipment", (Dr. Paul Mahlberg, H. Kosina) , Berlin: Wema 1927.
  4. ↑ Traffic tower on Alexanderplatz? In: Berliner Polizeihistoriker , No. 58, May 2017, accessed on August 27, 2019.
  5. ^ The new traffic tower at the corner of Leipzigerstrasse and Friedrichstrasse . In: Berliner Volks-Zeitung , June 4, 1925, morning edition No. 260, 1st supplement 'Berliner Technische Zeitung' p. 2, accessed on November 10, 2019.
  6. ↑ Dr.-Ing. Alfred Wedemeyer: The planned traffic tower in Berlin, corner of Leipzigerstrasse and Friedrichstrasse. (PDF) In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , June 27, 1925, No. 51, p. 99 ff., 3 illustrations, accessed on January 26, 2020.
  7. ↑ Adlerwerke-Rheinlandhaus. In: Baugilde, 1928, issue 20.
  8. ↑ For you. Two new residential complexes in Mariendorf. In: BWV magazine from December 2013, p. 10. ( digitized version )
  9. ↑ Catholic Salvatorkirche and Christophorus Children's Hospital at www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de , last accessed on March 6, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Kosina, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian architect in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1977
Place of death Munich