Jürgen Joedicke

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Jürgen Joedicke (2005)

Jürgen Joedicke (born June 26, 1925 in Erfurt ; † May 6, 2015 in Stuttgart ) was a German architect , architectural theorist and university lecturer for architecture.

Life

Jürgen Joedicke, son of a wholesale agent, studied architecture at the University of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar from 1946 to 1950 after graduating from high school and completing an apprenticeship in concrete construction . In 1950 he completed his studies with a diploma and in the same year came from the GDR to the Technical University of Stuttgart . There he taught structural engineering as an assistant from 1950 to 1956 . In 1953 Joedicke started writing a dissertation on the subject of “Construction and Form. A study of construction from 1895 to 1933 in Germany " PhD . In 1958 he completed his habilitation and Joedicke became a lecturer and lecturer for architectural theory and the lines of development in modern architecture. In doing so, he created decisive prerequisites for an expansion of the previously known architectural theory. In 1963 he was appointed associate professor and in 1967 he was appointed full professor . From 1967 to 1993 he headed the Institute for Foundations of Modern Architecture (IGMA) at the Technical University of Stuttgart . This institute was the first in Germany to explicitly deal with “architectural theory”.

From 1957 Joedicke also worked as a freelance architect and focused on hospital construction as well as sports and office buildings. In 1967 he won - together with Günter Behnisch , Frei Otto , Fritz Auer and Heinz Isler - the ideas competition for the Olympic site in Munich.

Joedicke was an honorary member of the Hungarian Association of Architects MESZ from 1976, in 1980 he received an honorary doctorate from the Academy for Architecture and Fine Arts in Istanbul and in 1986 an honorary doctorate from the University of Dortmund .

Jürgen Joedicke died on May 6, 2015, a few weeks before his 90th birthday.

Journalistic activity

From 1967 to 1979 Jürgen Joedicke was editor of the architecture magazine “Bauen + Wohnen” (later: “ Werk, Bauen + Wohnen ”) in Zurich. In addition, Joedicke published numerous articles and books on modern architecture, on the topics of architectural theory and architectural space, as well as organic building . His books have been translated into several languages.

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Buildings and designs

  • 1967–1968: Single-family house in Stuttgart-Möhringen
  • 1967–1972: Olympiapark in Munich (Architects: Günter Behnisch + Partner with Jürgen Joedicke)
  • 1986–1994: Klinikum II Nürnberg Süd, (Architects: Joedicke + Joedicke; Mayer † - Haid; Fukerider - Röder; Geiselbrecht, Beeg and Partners)

Fonts

  • History of Modern Architecture. Stuttgart 1st edition 1958, 2nd edition 1961.

(Licensed editions: GB, London (1959, 1962); USA, New York (1959); CH, Teufen (1959); I, Florence (1961), HU, Budapest (1961))

  • Modern architecture. Synthesis of form, function and construction. Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • Office buildings. Stuttgart 1st edition 1959, 2nd edition 1962.
  • Editor of the series of publications Documents of Modern Architecture (Karl-Krämer-Verlag Stuttgart):
    • Volume 1: Oscar Newman: CIAM 59 in Otterlo. Stuttgart 1961.
    • Volume 2: Jürgen Joedicke: Shell construction. Construction and design. Stuttgart 1962.
    • Volume 3: Jürgen Joedicke: Architecture and Urban Development. The work of van den Broeck and Bakema . Stuttgart 1963.
    • Volume 4: Heinrich Lauterbach / Jürgen Joedicke: Hugo Häring - writings, drafts, buildings. Stuttgart 1965.
    • Volume 5: Reyner Banham : Brutalism in Architecture. Stuttgart 1966.
    • Volume 6: Georges Candilis / Alexis Josic / Shadrach Woods: A decade of architecture and urban planning. Stuttgart 1978.
    • Volume 7: Jürgen Joedicke: Modern Architecture. Currents and tendencies. Stuttgart 1969.
    • Volume 8: Harald Deilmann / Jörg C. Kirschenmann / Herbert Pfeiffer: Housing construction - usage types, floor plan types, apartment types, building types. Stuttgart 1973.
    • Volume 9: Georges Candilis: Planning and building for leisure. Stuttgart 1972.
    • Volume 10: Georges Candilis / Alexis Josic / Shadrach Woods: Toulouse le Mirail - Birth of a New City. Stuttgart 1975.
    • Volume 11: Harald Deilmann / Gerhard Bickenbach / Herbert Pfeiffer: Residential areas Residential quarters - city, suburb, surrounding area. Stuttgart 1977.
    • Volume 12: Architectengemeenschap van den Broek en Bakema . Architectural urbanism. Stuttgart 1976.
    • Volume 13: Eberhard H. Zeidler : Multifunctional Architecture. Stuttgart 1983.
    • Volume 14: Arnulf Lüchinger : Structuralism in architecture and urban planning. Stuttgart 1981.
    • Volume 15: Harald Deilmann / Gerhard Bickenbach / Herbert Pfeiffer: Place of residence in the city. Stuttgart 1987.
  • For a living architecture. Stuttgart 1965.
  • Applied design methodology for architects. Stuttgart 1976.
  • (as ed.): The other building. Thoughts and drawings by Hugo Häring . Stuttgart 1982.
  • Space and form in architecture . Stuttgart 1985.
  • Architectural history of the 20th century. From 1950 to the present. Stuttgart 1990.
  • (with Joachim Andreas Joedicke, Hans-Peter Haid, Herbert Fukerider and Georg Geiselbrecht): Hospital construction on new paths. Nuremberg South Hospital. Stuttgart 1995.
  • Architectural history of the 20th century. Stuttgart 1998.
  • A house under pine trees. Tales from Tuscany. Darmstadt 1994.

literature

  • Klaus Jan Philipp: Jürgen Joedicke 1925–2015. In: Bauwelt ( ISSN  0005-6855 ), 106th year 2015, issue 22 (from June 2, 2015), page 4.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 9, 2015, p. 19
personal data
SURNAME Joedicke, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, architectural theorist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 2015
Place of death Stuttgart