Ludwig Leo (architect)

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Ludwig Leo (born September 2, 1924 in Rostock ; † November 1, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Immediately after the Second World War , Leo studied civil engineering in Hamburg . He then went to Berlin, where he studied architecture from 1951 to 1954 at the University of Fine Arts (HfbK), today Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). a. with Georg Neidenberger and Paul Baumgarten .

In 1953 Leo worked for Oswald Mathias Ungers in Cologne. Together with Stefan Wewerka , he worked there on the design for the Oberhausen Institute to obtain university entrance qualification.

From 1953 to 1955 he worked in the office of Wassili and Hans Luckhardt (Berlin), where Leo built, in particular, mechanical functional models for the development of adjustable patent furniture carried out by Hans Luckhardt. He then worked for Paul Baumgarten (Berlin). In 1956 he founded his own office in Berlin.

Between 1963 and 1967 Leo was temporarily assistant to OM Ungers at the Technical University of Berlin . From 1975 onwards, Leo was a lecturer in building planning at the Berlin University of the Arts (now UdK), where he was appointed professor for building planning in 1976 and taught until his retirement in 1982.

Leo lived in Berlin until his death. His grave is in the Grunewald cemetery .

Act

Ludwig Leo was largely unknown. This was not least due to his modesty and his reluctance to attract journalistic attention. The few buildings he has completed have a methodical signature that makes use of different formal languages. Among the initiated, he was considered the great "radical functionalist" ( Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm ). Leo's emphasis on functionalism is evident in the treatment of the details of his buildings. Its socially influenced architectural stance aims to enable and promote collective action and work. Well-known architects like u. a. Peter Cook , Norman Foster and Ernst Gisel have expressed their appreciation for Ludwig Leo, although the reception of Leo’s work was often formally oriented. Its importance can be measured by the fact that - despite a short list of works - three of his buildings were placed under monument protection during Leo's lifetime . Students of Ludwig Leo at the HdK who publicly refer to him are u. a. Max Dudler and Christoph Langhof .

Awards

In 1969 Ludwig Leo received the Berlin Art Prize for Architecture ; he was awarded the German Critics' Prize in 1988 . He was a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts , to which he handed over his archive in June 2008, emeritus at the Berlin University of the Arts and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.

Selected buildings

  • Research institute for hydraulic engineering and shipbuilding, circulation tank

  • Märkisches Viertel, Wilhelmsruher Damm 165–185

  • Federal teaching and research facility of the DLRG

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice of the family, Tagesspiegel of November 11, 2012, p. 15
  2. ↑ Archive of the architect Leo goes to the Akademie der Künste  ( 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. , Berliner Zeitung , June 30, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.berlinonline.de  
  3. ^ Family advertisements in: Der Tagesspiegel of November 11, 2012, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Leo, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2012
Place of death Berlin