Horst Siegel (architect)

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H. Zaglmeier, H. Siegel, R. Paulick, Halle-Neustadt (1967)

Horst Siegel (born May 4, 1934 in Lampersdorf (Riesengebirge) ) is a German architect , urban planner and university professor .

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Horst Siegel completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer from 1948 to 1951. He then attended the workers and farmers faculty and studied at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction until 1959 . He completed his studies with a degree in engineering and worked as an assistant and research assistant at the University of Architecture and Construction. In 1963 he received his doctorate . In Halle-Neustadt , Siegel was the main architect or deputy chief architect from 1964 to 1967. In 1967 he became chief architect in Leipzig and until 1985 also managed the urban planning and architecture office (BCA) he founded. At the same time he was an honorary professor at the Technical University of Dresden from 1969 to 1985 . From 1985 to 1991 he was a professor at the Weimar University of Architecture and Construction. From 1991 to 1999 he worked as a freelance architect.

Horst Siegel was responsible for the general development plan for the city of Leipzig from 1970. He was thus also involved as a leading architect in the new Gewandhaus in Leipzig , the former university high-rise ( City high-rise ), the winter garden high-rise and the new Leipzig district of Grünau and the Paunsdorf residential area . The conversion of the Friedenspark also goes back to the general development plan from 1970. He was also one of the leading architects in the planning and construction of the chemical workers' city of Halle-Neustadt . In the 1990s he converted a former brewery into a branch library of the Bauhaus University and finally redesigned the Weimar City Library.

Projects (selection)

Leipzig: High-rise apartment building Wintergartenstrasse - built 1972 (2011)
Leipzig: urban classification and architectural conception of the "New Gewandhaus" with variant for the design of the square (template March 13, 1976)
  • 1965/1967: Residential complex III Halle-Neustadt (for around 16,000 inhabitants; urban design and conception of the visual arts; with Richard Paulick, Harald Zaglmeier and Otto ValldeRuten)
  • 1968/1970: High-rise apartment building Wintergartenstraße in Leipzig (urban-architectural design; with Frieder Gebhardt, Ambros G. Gross and Georg Eichhorn; based on Berlin-WBK design studies by Manfred Zumpe and Hans-Peter Schmiedel)
  • 1968/1970: General development plan of the city of Leipzig 1970 (created in coordination with Wolfgang Geißler, Siegfried Hillmann, Ambros G. Gross and Johannes Schulze with the general transport plan by Kurt Ackermann)
  • 1970/1972: Winter garden high-rise in Leipzig
  • 1972/1975: Summer holiday home in Prerow (Darss)
  • 1972/1976: New Gewandhaus in Leipzig (urban-architectural conception (March 13, 1976); with Rudolf Skoda)
  • 1973/1985: New district of Leipzig-Grünau (originally planned for around 100,000 inhabitants; urban design; with Ambros G. Gross and Kurt Ackermann (traffic planning) as well as Georg Eichhorn, Hellmut Neumann, Hans-Dietrich Wellner, Bodo Hoffmann and Henriette Krahnstöver and employees of the Leipzig Housing Combine)
  • 1988/1989: GDR pavilion for Expo 92 in Seville (1st prize in an internal GDR "challenge competition"; with Oskar Büttner, Andreas Kästner, Bernd Rudolf and Matthias Zimmermann)
  • 1992/1994: Study of the terraced house development in Nierstein (Rhine) as well as designs for single-family houses in Wetzlar, Asslar and Quirla
  • 1993/1994: Scholz car dealership and renovation of residential buildings in Apolda / Oberrossla
  • 1994/1995: Conversion of a former brewery in the city center of Weimar to a branch library (today part of the Weimar University Library ) and to studios and workshops of the Bauhaus University Weimar (with Sylvelin Rudolf, Joachim Huber, Torsten Brecht and Bernd Rudolf)
  • 1996/1998: Conversion, renovation and redesign of the city library in Weimar (with Rubertus Gips, Michaela Grantner and Heike Reckert)

Fonts (selection)

  • For planning the residential complexes "Chemical Workers City Halle-West" . In: Deutsche Architektur , born 1967, issue 4
  • On the problems of interlinking and overlapping of functions in urban settlement systems as well as on the resulting tasks for urban planning . In: Scientific journal of the TU Dresden , year 1973, issue 4.
  • Thoughts on the economic expenses associated with our housing construction program and… In: Bauinformation , year 1982, issue 100.
  • How the New Gewandhaus in Leipzig got its place and shape . In: Leipziger Blätter , year 1982, issue 1.
  • Planning and design of the city of Leipzig. A contribution to the practical appropriation of the ideas of the Bauhaus . In: Scientific journal of the University of Architecture and Building Weimar , year 1983, issue 5/6.
  • (together with Hans-Herrmann Oehring): Regulations on the issuing of the “Urban planning confirmation of building and design measures in the city of Leipzig”. An experience report. In: Architecture of the GDR , born in 1984, issue 2.
  • Leipzig and its housing program. On the development and design of the city of Leipzig since the GDR was founded. In: Contributions to city history, Leipzig; Book 3/1984 as well as in the materials of the IFHP World Concresses Berlin (West); 1984
  • Influence of the coal-energy program of the GDR and housing construction on the urban development of Leipzig . In: 9th Bartlett International Summer School , London; Issue 9/1988
  • General development plan (Leipzig). Goals, statements and results. (Including a “time table” of the planning and construction tasks in Leipzig from 1945/1949 to 1990.) In: Bauen in Leipzig 1945–1990. RLS Sachsen 2003, ISBN 3-89819-159-1 .
  • Stations & situations of an architect. Work biographical notes. (Manuscript in the version dated May 15, 2011; a copy is available in the scientific collections of the IRS Erkner and in the Archive of Modern Art at the Bauhaus University Weimar)

Awards

  • 1981: National Prize 2nd class for art and literature (Gewandhaus Leipzig; in a collective)
  • 1982: Architecture Prize of the Leipzig District
  • 1983: Prize for urban planning and architecture from the city of Leipzig
  • 1983: Schinkel Medal of the Association of Architects in the GDR

  • Halle-Neustadt: Residential complex III, urban planning working model (1966/67)

  • Leipzig: General development plan 1970, 3-dimensional forecast model for the central city area

  • Leipzig: new district “Grünau”; originally planned ~ 100,000 inhabitants (status: 1984/85)

  • Weimar: Reconstruction and redesign of the city library (1996–1998)

Literature (selection)

  • Gerhard Krenz: Portrait of the architect: Horst Siegel. In: Architecture of the GDR , born 1980, issue 3.
  • Herbert Ricken: The architect. History of an occupation. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980.
  • Jan Koplowitz: Stories from a New City. In: The clock line. New life, Berlin 1969.
  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present. 1st edition, Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 .
  • Simone Hain:  Siegel, Horst . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

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SURNAME Siegel, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Lampersdorf