Leopold Simony
Leopold Simony (born October 8, 1859 in Vienna ; † July 16, 1929 in Payerbach , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian architect. He is considered a pioneer in social housing .
Life
Leopold Simony came from a middle-class Viennese family. He was the son of the pharmacist Leopold Josef Simony and his wife Aloisia Anna Daum. His brother Stephan Simony sen. (1860–1950) was a painter whose son Stephan Simony jun. also an architect. After attending the academic high school , Simony studied at the Vienna University of Technology from 1877 to 1883 with Karl König and Heinrich Ferstel .
He then started a practice at Gruber & Völker, where he was particularly concerned with brewing . From 1889 Simony worked independently, albeit in collaboration with Theodor Bach until 1904 . Simony specialized in industrial buildings that he built in Galicia and the Balkans. Workers' settlements often emerged at the same time. In 1896 he became a lecturer at the Academy for Brewing Industry .
He became more and more a specialist in social housing and increasingly advocated cooperative housing construction . From 1900 he was managing director of the non-profit building company for workers' houses . From 1907 until his death, Simony worked as a professor for utility construction at the Vienna University of Technology. In the last years of the monarchy Simony built thousands of social workers' apartments, after the First World War he was only able to realize a few projects as part of the social housing program of Red Vienna due to the poor economic situation .
The Simonyhof in Vienna- Meidling was named after Leopold Simony .
meaning
Leopold Simony initially specialized in industrial construction, but became a pioneer of social housing in Austria thanks to the workers' apartments built near the factories. Due to his long-standing occupation with the subject, he was considered a specialist in this field.
At the turn of the century he built the people's apartments of the Kaiserjubiläums-Stiftung in Vienna- Ottakring , which, in its huge dimensions and in its building structure with block edge development around courtyards and communal facilities, shaped the later social housing of the interwar period on behalf of the Viennese social democracy. Only the external appearance was based on a more traditional home style. He built more than 2000 apartments for the non-profit housing association. Simony was always interested in the organizational structure of his buildings and less formal problems. Simony is considered to be one of the intellectual fathers of the Viennese housing program in the interwar period. He also had a great influence on the generation of architects working at the time.
Works
- Reininghaus brewery near Graz
- Weiser factory in Sassiv , Galicia
- Industrial plant, Chrudim , Bohemia (around 1890)
- Villa Wenzel, Hadersdorf (1895); together with Theodor Bach
- Katharinenhof rental house, Vienna 21 (1896)
- People's apartments of the Kaiser Franz Josef Jubilee Foundation “Lobmeyerhof”, Wernhardtstrasse 1–15, Vienna 16 (1898–1901) together with Theodor Bach
- Götz Brewery, Okocim , Galicia (around 1900)
- Rental house Zum Heiducken, Spiegelgasse 19, Vienna 1 (1901); together with Theodor Bach
- Workers' houses of the Sonnenschein iron foundry, Marchegg (1901)
- Workers' houses of the Liesing brewery (1902–1914)
- Official residence of the Götz brewery, Okocim (1902)
- Commercial building the fire insurance , Luegerplatz 5, Wien 1 (1902-1903)
- Publishing and printing house, formerly Reisser , Arbeitergasse 1–7, Vienna 5 (1903–1904)
- Workers' houses of the Lower Austrian Accident Insurance, Leopoldauerstraße 79–81, Vienna 21 (1900–1907); together with Theodor Bach
- Workers' houses at Engerthstrasse 41, Vienna 20 (1905)
- Rohrer printing works, Brno (1905)
- Workers' houses of the Schultes glass factory, Vösendorf (1906–1907)
- Workers' housing complex, Wiener Neustadt (1906)
- Laxenburgerhof residential building, Vienna 10 (1906)
- Workers' housing complex Erzherzog-Karl-Strasse 148, Vienna 22 (1907)
- Workers' houses of the Götz brewery, Okocim (1908–1910)
- Workers' house of the Fränkel hat factory, Ebreichsdorf (1910)
- Workers' houses of the Popper shoe factory, Chrudim, Bohemia (1912)
- Small apartment complex Inzersdorfer Strasse 81–83, Vienna 10 (1913)
- Civil servants 'and workers' houses of the Vienna Dairy , Vienna 2 (1914)
- War memorial in Payerbach (1922)
- Simonyhof residential complex , Vienna 12 (1927–1928)
- Wohnhausanlage Angeligasse 78-80, Vienna 10 (1929-1930)
Fonts
- Comments on the draft for a general regulation plan for the entire building area of Vienna . Vienna 1893
- Small apartment buildings . Vienna 1918
literature
- Hans Hautmann , Rudolf Hautmann : The municipal housing of the Red Vienna. 1919-1934 . Schönbrunn-Verlag, Vienna 1980.
Web links
- Leopold Simony. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Simony, Leopold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 8, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 16, 1929 |
| Place of death | Payerbach |