Joachim Schürmann

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Lintgasse 9, until 2008 House of Architecture Cologne
Schürmann building, Bonn
Bad Honnef town hall
Christ King Wuppertal
St. Pius Church, Neuss

Joachim Schürmann (born September 24, 1926 in Viersen ) is a German architect .

Life

Schürmann grew up in Dresden and Darmstadt and studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt until 1949. He was married to Margot Schwilling (born August 18, 1924 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein; † 1998), with whom he worked all his life. The marriage resulted in two sons and two daughters who also became architects.

Schürmann lives in Cologne . He founded his first office as a freelance architect there in 1956. His last office in Lintgasse served from May 8, 2005 to 2008 in part as the Cologne House of Architecture . From 1966 Schürmann was also a professor of design at the Technical University of Darmstadt . He has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 1977 , an honorary member of the Heinrich Tessenow Society of North Rhine-Westphalia since 1984 and a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts in Dresden.

Even at the age of 90, Schürmann is still working in his profession, currently with office partner Valeska Zohm and with young talents as employees.

Works and awards

In four decades, Schürmann has won more than 50 first prizes in competitions with designs for buildings that were mainly built in Cologne and the region: private houses, including his own, office and administration buildings, schools and also sacred buildings such as Christ König in Wuppertal . The reconstruction of Groß St. Martin in Cologne between 1961 and 1985 deserves special mention . His work is characterized by a clear design language in the tradition of Mies van der Rohe . Some early works can be attributed to brutalism . The most important awards are the Heinrich Tessenow Medal in gold in 1986 and the German Architecture Prize twice : 1981 for the St. Martin quarter in Cologne and 1991 for the Cologne 3 post office. In 2004, he received one of five prizes awarded every three years good buildings 2003 of the regional BDA Bonn-Rhein-Sieg for its Schürmann-Bau, built between 1996 and 2003 in Bonn's government district ( planned as a Bundestag building ), which was affected by the Rhine flood during the construction phase. Today it serves as a broadcasting house for Deutsche Welle . In 2007 he received the Fritz Schumacher Architecture Prize, again awarded by the Hamburg Senate and now endowed with € 20,000 . He also received the Cologne Architecture Prize in 1961, 1980 and 1990 . In 2008, the Association of German Architects honored Margot and Joachim Schürmann's life's work with the BDA Prize, which is awarded every three years . The jury justified this decision with the “outstanding aesthetic atmosphere” of their buildings achieved by the Schürmanns through the “principle of simplicity in material and structure”. The BDA ranks him among the award winners Hans Scharoun , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Egon Eiermann and Oswald Mathias Ungers .

In March 2006 Schürman's last design for the Cologne Jewish Museum, which he would like to see on the site of the medieval Jewish quarter opposite the town hall, became known. Schürmann planned the area, which was destroyed by the war, and which has now become a vacant space, since the early 1970s, initially as a congress center according to the respective political guidelines; In the 1980s, as in the St. Martin district, shops and apartments were to be built alongside the museum. Neither was realized. The new plans are to be implemented largely with the help of sponsors. Two further museum projects are currently being planned, including a museum for architectural photography near the Museum Stiftung Insel Hombroich near Neuss .

In autumn 2007 (August to October 4th) the exhibition A look at Schürmann's work with a special focus on the reconstruction of the church was shown in the church of Groß St. Martin .

Buildings (selection)

literature

  • Ingeborg flag (ed.): Schürmann, drafts and buildings. 1956-1997 Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8030-0173-0 .
  • A look at the work. Exhibition catalog, Cologne 2007.

Web links

Commons : Joachim Schürmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g NRW architecture database
  2. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  3. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  4. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  5. ↑ a b c Gerhard Schwab (Ed.): Db Einfamilienhäuser 51-100 , DVA Stuttgart 1966
  6. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  7. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  8. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  9. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  10. ^ Kurt Hoffmann: New single family houses , Julius Hoffmann Verlag, 1962
  11. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  12. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  13. ↑ Der Baumeister 10/1968, Callwey, Munich
  14. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. Marienburg. Buildings and architects of a villa suburb. (= Stadtspuren, Denkmäler in Köln , Volume 8.) 2 volumes, JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7616-1147-1 , Volume 1, p. 387.
  15. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  16. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  17. ↑ " The Builder " 4/1980
  18. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  19. ↑ Hiltrud Kier : Architecture of the 50s . Buildings of the Gerling Group in Cologne. 1st edition. Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-458-33317-7 , p. 210-211 .
  20. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
  21. ↑ Entry in Werkblick Schürmann
personal data
SURNAME Schürmann, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Viersen