Leo Adler (architect)

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Leo Adler, Vom Wesen der Baukunst, Leipzig 1926: In Volume I, Leo Adler treats architecture as an event. Volume II, which he was planning, was unpublished.

Leo Adler (born October 8, 1891 in Kerch , Russia; † August 6, 1962 in Kibbutz En Harod , Israel) was a German architectural theorist , architecture critic, author and architect , member of the Deutscher Werkbund and the Association of German Architects . He is one of the more than 450 architects for whom the National Socialist Nuremberg Laws made it impossible to practice their profession independently.

Life

Leo Adler, whose family came from Königsberg , grew up in Kerch in the Crimea . In 1910 he began studying architecture at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg , continued at the Technical University of Munich at the end of 1912 , and after graduating in 1914 he went to the First World War and was seriously wounded off Verdun . After his recovery , Leo Adler did his doctorate in 1920 with Cornelius Gurlitt at the Technical University of Dresden on the subject of "Contributions to the history of the development of architecture". He then worked as an architecture theorist and critic, as an employee of the Reich Research Center for Economic Efficiency in Building and Housing, from 1926 to 1930 as editor of Wasmuth's Lexikon der Baukunst (volumes 1–4) in Berlin and in 1932 founded Architectura, magazine for history and aesthetics of architecture. In his foreword as editor of issue 1 of this magazine, Adler wrote: “It is a remarkable fact that there is currently no magazine devoted exclusively to the history and theory of architecture. That this gap in architectural literature is regretted by many has been shown by the strong echo that the plan of this magazine has found in specialist circles. ” Fritz Schumacher , Paul Ortwin Rave , Gustav Adolf Platz and other architects, art and building historians published their contributions here . Adler was only able to publish six issues because in 1933 he was forced to flee National Socialism with his wife and daughter to Tel Aviv , Palestine .

There he worked as an architect and tried u. a. as editor of the architecture magazine Habinjan Bamisrach Hakarov, A Palestine Periodical for Architecture in the Near East Tel Aviv (1937–1938) to continue his architectural studies. He developed the construction of a perspective with no vanishing point. In 1952 Leo Adler moved from Tel Aviv to his daughter Vera in Kibbutz En Harod , where he lived until his death in 1962. He was a drawing teacher at En Harod School from 1952 to 1958 and chief engineer of the Gilboa region from 1955 to 1958 .

Work (selection)

buildings

  • Romanov House, Tel Aviv, 1924
  • Schlagmann House, Tel Aviv, 1936
  • Porcelain Teeth Factory, Tel Aviv
  • 2-3 apartment buildings, Tel Aviv

Publications

Leo Adler created four articles:

  • The Berlin State Opera for 2500 instead of 1600 spectators, attempted rescue with sketches , in: Der Städtebau , 21 (1926), issue 6, pp. 88f., 6 ills.
  • together with Werner Hegemann : Warning against "academicism" and "classicism" . Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst, vol. 11, 1927, pp. 1-10 ( digitized version of the central and regional library Berlin ).
  • Hoetger, Hoeger, Högg and brick construction in Germany and the Sahara , Wasmuths MONTHS FOR Baukunst 11 (1927), issue 12, p. 477. 26 Fig.
  • Flats without hallways. Architect Alexander Klein , Berlin. Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture 12 (1928), no. 10, p. 454f. 23 fig.
additional
  • Contributions to a history of the development of architecture. Diss., Dresden 1920
  • On the essence of architecture , Leipzig 1926 (new edition Berlin 2000, epilogue Martin Kieren)
  • Wasmuths Lexikon der Baukunst , Vol. 1-5 (editor), Berlin 1929–1932
  • Modern rental houses and settlements , (editor), Berlin 1931 (Neuausg. Berlin 1998, epilogue Myra Warhaftig )
  • Architectura , 1932–1933 (Editor, 6 issues)
  • Habinjan Bamisrach Hakarov, A Palestine Periodical for Architecture in the Near East . Tel Aviv 1937–1938 (editor)
  • Analytical perspective . Berlin 1948

literature

  • Myra Warhaftig: You laid the foundation. Wasmuth, Tübingen 1996 ISBN 3-8030-0171-4 p. 262 f.
  • Myra Warhaftig: German Jewish Architects before and after 1933. Five hundred biographies . Reimer, Berlin 2005 ISBN 3-496-01326-5 pp. 38-40

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tobias Göttert: Adler, Leo. In: Architects in Exile 1933-1945. Martin Papenbrock, accessed on January 19, 2020 (winter semester 2002/2003).
  2. ↑ Myra Warhaftig: The rise and fall of "new building" - on Leo Adler's time documentation . In: Leo Adler (Ed.): Modern rental houses and settlements . Gebr, Mann, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-7861-1845-0 , p. 277 .
  3. ↑ Leo Adler: Past and Present. A preface by the editor. In: Architectura: Journal for the history and aesthetics of architecture. , No. 1, 1933, p. 1, accessed on February 25, 2017
  4. ↑ Subtitle: Journal for the History and Aesthetics of Architecture ISSN  2365-4775
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architectural theorist, architecture critic, author and architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Kerch , Russia
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1962
Place of death Kibbutz En Harod , Israel