Jürgen Frauenfeld

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Jürgen Frauenfeld (born September 29, 1942 in Heidelberg ) is a German architect who lives and works in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

The father's engineering profession brought alternating stays abroad, including a. in Israel, where Jürgen Frauenfeld attended the Tabeetha School in Jaffa from 1958 to 1959 . Vacation jobs in architecture firms in Tel Aviv sparked his interest in architecture and urban planning. After studying at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences from 1964 to 1967, he attended Johannes Krahn's architecture class at the University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt from 1968 to 1969. At the same time, he took courses in social sciences at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Frankfurt in order to acquire a basic knowledge of sociology , which was then starting to address issues of urban planning and architecture.

As a freelancer in the Albert Speer junior office in Frankfurt from 1970 onwards, he had the first opportunity to work on larger, international plans and competitions. Early competition success cemented the tendency towards urban planning. From 1974 to 1983 he was a partner in the Speerplan Regional and Urban Planner GmbH, responsible for a number of regional, urban planning and urban development projects at home and abroad.

Jürgen Frauenfeld was a lecturer at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1975 to 1978 (at the Institute for Tropical Engineering with Günter Behnisch ), 1980–1983 at the University of Frankfurt (at the Institute for Economic and Social Geography with Karl Vorlaufer) and 2005–2007 at the University of Stuttgart ( at the urban development institute SIAAL with Eckart Ribbeck). He also held urban development seminars at Harvard University and MIT in the United States in 1985 .

With the University of Stuttgart, Jürgen Frauenfeld participated in the Seminario Urbanismo Internacional at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana UAM in Mexico City from 2005 to 2007 . He also gave lectures on Brasília in the German Architecture Museum and on the White City of Tel Aviv at the Ernst May Society , both in Frankfurt.

Jürgen Frauenfeld has been married to the painter Brigid Ibell since 1983 .

office

Competition successes, etc. a. the 1st prize in the urban planning ideas competition Frankfurt-Preungesheim , led to the founding of the Frauenfeld Architects office in Frankfurt in 1983 . Most of the orders came from competitions. In 1991 the office won the urban planning competition for the former Munich-Riem airport site , the first Europe-wide competition of its kind. In 1992, the office was commissioned with the conceptual planning of urban development, landscape and traffic for the approx. 560 hectare area of ​​the Messestadt Riem , the largest at the time Urban development project in Germany.

Jürgen Frauenfeld worked internationally as a consultant a. a. for the EU Commission in Nepal, for GTZ in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Nepal, for AS&P in Bahrain, China, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Thailand, for Lahmeyer International in the Philippines, with the University of Stuttgart in Mexico, Brazil and for UNRWA operates in the West Bank.

Competitions (selection)

  • 1971 Urban planning competition Neue Stadt Nidderau , with Albert Speer, Caspar Schön, 2nd prize
  • 1972 City design competition Zeil Frankfurt am Main , with Albert Speer, Jörg Habermann, special purchase
  • 1983 Frankfurt-Preungesheim urban development ideas competition , 1st prize
  • 1985 Urban planning ideas competition Stadtmitte Berliner Platz Kronberg im Taunus , 1st prize
  • 1986 Urban design ideas competition Alte Lackierfabrik Weinheim , 1st prize
  • 1991 EC-wide urban and landscape planning ideas competition for the site of the former Munich-Riem Airport , 1st prize
  • 1993 Urban planning expert procedure Idstein , 1st place
  • 1993 International urban planning ideas competition Spreebogen Berlin , with Bernd Mey , purchase
  • 1994 Urban planning ideas competition, Eastern Altstadtring Dresden , 3rd prize
  • 1996 Urban development ideas competition William-O.-Darby-Kaserne Fürth , 3rd prize
  • 1998 Urban development competition for the Alte Grundschule / Berliner Platz Kronberg im Taunus, with Jacqueline Stüben, 1st prize
  • 1998 International urban development competition Jiangbei New Town Chongqing , PR China, with AS&P , 1st place
  • 2001 International Urban Development Competition Longquan, Guilin , PR China, with AS&P and Obermeyer Beijing, 2nd prize
  • 2003 International urban development competition Zhenjiang Shiyezhou Island, PR China, with AS&P, 1st prize
  • 2003 International urban development competition for Uni- Campus Bockenheim of the University of Frankfurt am Main , with Jacqueline Stüben, 2nd prize
  • 2004 International urban development ideas competition Nuovo Quartiere Cornaredo - Lugano , Switzerland, with Heike Fischer and Michael Heller, finalists

Fonts

  • German-Chinese projects, architecture, landscape architecture. Wiesbaden 2006 ISBN 3-932509-40-4
  • Planning and building in developing countries, BMBau research report, Bund Deutscher Architekten BDA (Ed.). Stuttgart 1982
  • Urbanization in the Third World. in: spatial research and spatial planning. H. 4, 1981, Bonn 1981
  • Problems of urban development in Saudi Arabia, in: New home monthly books. H. 2, 1981, Hamburg 1981
  • Development planning Libya, in: Deutsche Bauzeitung, 4, 1974
  • Rhineland-Palatinate agglomerations. Guiding principles of development. State Chancellery Rhineland-Palatinate (publisher), Frankfurt 1973

literature

  • The Plan, Urban Development, 039-2009 / 2010, p. 96, ISSN  1720-6553
  • domus dossier Aeroporti, 1, 1993 p. 89 ff
  • AW 150 Architecture + Competitions, June 1992, pp. 68 ff, ISBN 3-7828-3150-0

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personal data
SURNAME Frauenfeld, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg