Heinz Mohl
Heinz Mohl (born March 18, 1931 in Hechingen , Hohenzollernsche Lande ; full name: Heinz Konrad Martin Mohl ) is a German architect .
Life
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Mohl attended schools in Hechingen and Konstanz, where he graduated from the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium in 1951. 1951–1957 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Karlsruhe with Otto Haupt and Egon Eiermann . 1957-1958 he had a scholarship at the University of Florence , only to return to Karlsruhe as Otto Haupt's assistant.
1962–1967 he was a government master builder ( assessor ) in the state building administration, 1967–1971 again assistant at the University of Karlsruhe, this time with Werner Dierschke , whose chair for building theory and design he represented 1972–1974. 1974-1996 he taught as a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart , initially as head of a class for general artistic training (environmental design), from the summer semester 1981 as head of a design class for architecture (successor to Erwin Heinle ), also in the interior design and furniture design course . In 1977 Heinz Mohl was awarded the first German Architecture Prize for the Schneider department store he designed in Freiburg, and in the same year he received the Karlsruhe “Weinbrenner Badge” for groups of terraced houses planned and built in the city. In 1987 and 1988 he was guest of honor at the Villa Massimo in Rome for a few months . In 1995 the Badisches Landesmuseum organized an exhibition on the work of Heinz Mohl.
In 1998 he handed over most of his plans, sketches, files and photos - around 50,000 in total - as a closed collection under the name Fondation Heinz Mohl to the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (SAAI) at the University of Karlsruhe.
Heinz Mohl lives and works in Karlsruhe and Ticino.
Architectural conception
In turning away from the purely functional conception of Egon Eiermann, Mohl strives for an expressive and diverse architecture. Here he meets with Oswald Mathias Ungers . He likes to use complex structures, large volumes, surprising spatial effects and strongly contrasting materials. Regardless of this, his buildings are never related to themselves, but, despite their modernity, take the urban environment into account.
In 1995 Heinz Mohl announced:
“The lifeworld based exclusively on science, the world of instrumental thinking, is the 'ideological' basis (Max Weber - The Protestant Ethics) for the monstrous progress in all levels accessible to linear thinking.
Starting from Central Europe, this thinking not only led to the overcoming of need, it led to material abundance, but it also led, through blindness to the order of the heart, to structures that shift the essence of man.
In architecture, against the background of the linearity of thinking at the time, the mistake was made of interpreting the currents of thought linearly as well; It was no coincidence that the so-called 'Classical Modernism' emerged again, starting from Central Europe, a tremendous simplification of the translation of basic theoretical currents into character codes.
New (non) linear thought patterns are now being transformed into fractal geometric patterns. The gestures of this also incorrectly translated intellectual current must be seen as a misunderstanding, it is like walking a tightrope between chaos and order.
A paradigm shift towards the order of the heart, towards humanity, towards the ability to inquire, towards a new simplicity is not only visible on the horizon, it has already been heralded. "
Buildings (in selection)
- Kürner residential building, Karlsruhe-Waldstadt (1962–1964, first executed draft)
- Schneider department store, Ettlingen (1967–1977)
- Schneider department store, Freiburg im Breisgau (1969–1975)
- Atelier building Horst Antes , Karlsruhe- Wolfartsweier (1970/1971)
- Central Pharmacy Karlsruhe (1974)
- Kreissparkasse Ravensburg (1982–1987)
- Heinrich Hübsch School Karlsruhe (1978–1985)
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe , extension and renovation (1978–1990)
- Cafeteria of the University of Karlsruhe (1985–1989)
- L-Bank data center , Karlsruhe (1989–1992)
- Karlsruhe University Library , extension (2002–2006)
Mohl's catalog raisonné comprises 248 numbers, with at least 42 other drafts not being considered.
Fonts
- Heinz Mohl: Buildings and Projects . Edition Menges, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-930698-00-5 .
literature
- Wolfgang Kermer : The professors of the graphic design, interior architecture and design departments: Ade, Brudi, Bruse, Franz, Heinle, Henning, Jacki, Klink, Kröplien, Lehmann, Mohl, Stadelmaier, Stemshorn, Votteler, Weidemann, Witzemann, Wollner. State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1981, pp. 51–55.
- SAAI (ed.), Gerhard Kabierske: The Heinz Mohl Foundation. (= Notes from the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe , Volume 7.) Karlsruhe 1998. (online as a PDF document with approx. 1 MB)
- Städtische Galerie Neunkirchen , Nicole Nix-Hauck (Hrsg.): Donation Wolfgang Kermer: inventory catalog . Neunkirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-941715-07-3 , pp. 114–115.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Kermer : Data and images on the history of the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988 (= improved reprint from: The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart: a self-portrayal . Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1988), o. P. [14], [16].
- ^ Akademie-Mitteilungen 8 / Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart / For the period from June 1, 1976 to October 31, 1977. Edited by Wolfgang Kermer. Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, March 1978, p. 108.
- ^ The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart . Realized by students of the class Hans-Georg Pospischil. Illustrations: Heinz Edelmann . Stuttgart: State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 1995, p. 51. - The spelling of the text according to the template.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohl, Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hechingen |