Klaus portable

Klaus Tragbar (* 1959 ) is a German building researcher and architectural historian .

Life

Wearable studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt and specialized early on in building research and building surveying. In 1989 he completed his studies with a diploma. From 1990 to 1996 he was a research assistant at the Department of Building History at the TH Darmstadt, where he dealt with the building history of the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta in the framework of the interdisciplinary research project “The Churches of Siena” of the Art History Institute in Florence, Max Planck Institute Siena dealt.

In 1997 he received his doctorate with a thesis on medieval housing in Tuscany under Walter Haas . Wearable received teaching assignments from the TU Darmstadt (1996–1998, 2002) and the University of Mainz (1997) and in 1997/98 he was the professor for cultural and architectural history at the FH Frankfurt am Main. From 1998 to 2001 he was the managing director of the German Castle Association . For his research on Gustavo Giovannoni's idea of ambientismo , he received a grant from the German Research Foundation in 2001/02.

From 2002 to 2014 he taught as a professor for design, building history and architectural theory at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences . In February 2013 he followed the call to professor for architecture, building history and monument preservation at the University of Innsbruck , where he heads the Institute for Architectural Theory and Building History as well as the Research Institute Archive for Architecture .

His research focuses on the architectural history of the Middle Ages and the architectural history of the 20th century in Italy, in particular on the role of the historic city in modernity and on architecture under fascism in Italy. Since 2005, Tragbar has been carrying out construction studies on the church of the Archabbey of St. Peter in Salzburg. In 2010 he also began building research at the Baptistery in Aquileia .

From 2000 to 2016, Klaus Tragbar was a member of the board of the Koldewey Society for Research into Building History. He is a founding member and was a member of the board of the Gesellschaft für Bautechnikgeschichte from 2013 to 2019 . He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of the Journal of Construction History . Together with Barry Bergdoll and Andreas Schwarting he is editor of the magazine architectura .

Fonts (selection)

• Il campanile del duomo di Siena e le torri gentilizie della città , in: Bullettino Senese di Storia Patria 102.1995, pp. 159–186
• From the gender tower to the town house. Studies on the origin, typology and urban planning aspects of medieval housing in Tuscany (around 1100–1350) (contributions to the history of art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 10). Münster 2003 (= dissertation)
• The third Rome. From the ›caput mundi‹ to the ›capitale d'Italia‹ , in: Christina Strunck (ed.): Rome - masterpieces of architecture from antiquity to today (celebratory gift for Elisabeth Kieven). Petersberg 2007, pp. 468-484
• Dante and the Duce. On the political motives for the redesign of historic cities in Tuscany , in: Aram Mattioli and Gerald Steinacher (eds.): Building for fascism. Architecture and town planning in Mussolini's Italy (culture, philosophy, history 7). Zurich 2009, pp. 189–210
• Constructing Siena Cathedral. Sources and Observations on the Use of Brick in the Middle Ages , in: Karl-Eugen Kurrer , Werner Lorenz and Volker Wetzk (eds.): Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Construction History . Berlin 2009, pp. 1411-1417
• New research on St. Peter in Salzburg , in: Report on the 45th conference for excavation science and building research from April 30 to May 4, 2008 in Regensburg. Dresden 2010, pp. 255–262
• The Salicotto quarters in Siena. A city redevelopment in Italy in the 1930s , in: Kai Krauskopf, Hans-Georg Lippert and Kerstin Zaschke (eds.): New Tradition 3. European architecture under the sign of traditionalism and regionalism. Dresden 2012, pp. 143–166
• "Fatta l'Italia, bisogna fare ..." a national Italian architecture , in: Damian Dombrowski (ed.): Art in search of the nation. The problem of identity in Italian painting, sculpture and architecture from the Risorgimento to Fascism, Berlin 2013, pp. 102–119
• How to build a cathedral. Notes on the construction management of the cathedral in Siena , in: Katja Schröck, Bruno Klein and Stefan Bürger (eds.): Church as a construction site - large sacred buildings of the Middle Ages. Cologne 2013, pp. 41–59
• "The spirit of tradition". Notes on historicity and memory in Italian modernism , in: Kai Kappel and Michael Müller (eds.): Historical images and culture of remembrance in the architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Regensburg 2014, pp. 59–74
• Constructing a Cathedral. Notes on the Construction Management of Siena Cathedral , in: Brian Bowen et al. (Ed.): Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on Construction History. 3 Vol., Chicago 2015, Vol. 3, pp. 455-463
• The staging of the dead. Italian war cemeteries in the Alpine region as a means of fascist propaganda , in: RIHA Journal 0164, 27 June 2017
• Siena 1357. The failure of a great plan , in: Ine Wouters et al. (Ed.): Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories. 2 vol., Leiden 2018, vol. 1, pp. 43–49
• The discovery of the ›ambience‹. Gustavo Giovannoni and the beginning of modern urban planning theory in Italy , in: Christine Beese and Ralph-Miklas Dobler (eds.): L'Urbanistica a Roma durante il ventennio fascista (Quaderni della Bibliotheca Hertziana 1). Rome 2018, pp. 171–191
• with Elmar Kossel: Conquest through Architecture? Italy's Strategies of Appropriation in Alto Adige and the Trentino after 1920 , in: Borut Klabjan (ed.): Borderlands of Memory. Adriatic and Central European Perspectives (Cultural Memories 2). Oxford et al. a. 2019, pp. 187-210
• »Presente!« Cult and space in Italy of fascism , in: Maximiliane Buchner and Anna Minta (eds.): Raumkult - Kultraum. On the relationship between architecture, furnishings and community (Linz contributions to art history and philosophy 10). Bielefeld 2019, pp. 47–60
• Italia (Capri) rivista. Modernism and its traditional legacy in the Italy of Ventennio , in: Kai Kappel and Erik Wegerhoff (eds.): Turns of view. Architectural trips to Italy, modern and present (Roman studies of the Bibliotheca Hertziana 45). Munich 2019, pp. 83–98

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Department of Building History and Monument Preservation Innsbruck