Josef Brix

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Joseph Brix, 1907, photo by Rudolf Dührkoop

Josef Brix (born June 27, 1859 in Rosenheim , † January 10, 1943 in Berlin ; also Joseph Brix ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor .

Life

Brix was initially active as a town planning officer in Altona from 1895–98 , where he also took over the provisional management of the town planning department from 1897. In these functions, he was not only responsible for the redesign of the Altona train station area in the train of the conversion of the former train station into the Altona town hall (completed in 1898 based on a design by building inspector Emil Brandt ), but also paved the way for the implementation of Josef Stübben's city ​​expansion plans for the city of Altona . In the years 1900 to 1907, Brix in Wiesbaden planned an underground sewer network that has been under monument protection since 2003 , including the Salzbach .

In 1904 Brix received a professorship for urban planning at the Technical University of Charlottenburg , one of the first chairs of this kind in Germany. Together with his colleague Felix Genzmer (1856–1929), who represented town planning and colored decoration in the architecture department, Josef Brix founded the seminar for town planning, settlement and housing in the winter semester of 1907/1908.

In the following years he and Genzmer developed urban planning concepts for Berlin and its surroundings that set new standards. Particularly noteworthy is the planning for the Frohnau garden city , which was built from 1908 to 1910. The design submitted together with Genzmer in the 1910 Greater Berlin competition and awarded one of two first prizes with the motto “Think about the future” was significant .

Brix received the title of a secret government councilor and was rector in 1918 and vice-rector of the Technical University of Charlottenburg a year later . He was also a member of the Prussian Academy of Civil Engineering.

Josef Brix died in Berlin in early 1943 at the age of 83. His grave in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend has not been preserved.

The Brixplatz in the district Westend of Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is named after him, as is the Josef-Brix Street in Wiesbaden borough of Biebrich and the Professor-Brix-Weg in the district Altona in Hamburg . The Josef Brix and Felix Genzmer Park in Berlin-Frohnau has had his name and that of his colleague since 2011 .

Urban planning seminar

From the winter semester of 1907/1908, Brix and Genzmer led the urban planning seminar at the Royal Technical University of Berlin , each with eight events each year with their own or guest lectures. Well-known speakers such as Reinhard Baumeister , Rudolf Eberstadt , Josef Stübben , Albert Erich Brinckmann , Philipp Rappaport and others were invited. The urban planning lectures were published in lecture cycles at Ernst & Sohn and were the first fundamental publications on the subject of urban planning at the time.

  • Urban planning lectures

  • Subjects 1907/1908

  • Subjects 1909/1910/1911

  • Subjects 1912/1913/1914

literature

Web links

Commons : Josef Brix  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Masterpiece underground  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Wiesbadener Tagblatt of September 4, 2009, accessed on July 22, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wiesbadener-tagblatt.de  
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 484.
personal data
SURNAME Brix, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brix, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenheim
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1943
Place of death Berlin