Hugo Leipziger-Pearce

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Hugo Leipziger-Pearce (born December 8, 1902 in Breslau ; † July 13, 1998 ) was a German architect and American university professor.

Life

After attending secondary school, Leipziger studied at the Royal Art and Trade Academy in Breslau under August Endell , Otto Mueller and Adolf Rading and later art history and economics at the University of Hamburg , but did not complete these studies. From 1927 he was a member of the Association of German Architects . From 1928 to 1933 he worked in Breslau as the lead architect of a state housing project together with Gerhard Schönborn , briefly also in Paris and from 1934 for the Australian architecture company Stephenson  &  Meldrum (now Stephenson &  Turner ) in Melbourne . The price gain for the draft Women's Hospital allowed him to participate in the Australian Pavilion at the New York World's Fair , the World Expo 1939 in New York. From 1939 until his retirement in 1974 he taught at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin , where he was responsible for the city and regional planning program he initiated. In Germany he was employed as a special advisor to the High Commissioner of the US Zone of Occupation from 1950 to 1951 and again as an official advisor for urban and regional planning projects in the Federal Republic of Germany in the mid-1960s. Some of the designs he created in Germany are now in the holdings of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main .

Fonts

  • City-planning housing: the first line of advance , Austin: Univ. of Texas, [approx. 1941].
  • The city, the housing and the community plan: some basic and historical considerations , Austin: The University of Texas 1942 (Municipal studies / University of Texas; 19) (The University of Texas publication; 4238) (Engineering research series / Bureau of Engineering Research; 34).
  • The architectonic city in the Americas: significant forms, origins, and prospects , Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1944 (The University of Texas Publication; 4407).
  • Architecture in the Americas, its significant forms and values . In: Inter American intellectual interchange: proceedings, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press 1972, ISBN 0-8369-2598-X , pp. 137-150
  • Environmental quality and lifestyles - a dilemma: ASCE spring convention and exhibit , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 24-28, 1978, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1978.

literature

  • Albrecht Jaeger and Hugo Leipziger , Arch. BDA a. DWB, Wroclaw . In: Bauwelt, vol. 21, 1931, pp. 9-16.
  • Furniture by architect BDA Hugo Leipziger , Berlin . In: Deutsche Bauzeitung, 1932, p. 213.
  • Gert Kähler: Hugo Leipziger-Pearce: portrait . In: Der Architekt, 1992, pp. 273–276.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Leipziger-Pearce , University of Texas at Austin.
  2. ^ John R. Durbin: in memoriam: Hugo Leipziger-Pearce , University of Texas at Austin.
personal data
SURNAME Leipziger-Pearce, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 1998