Manfred Walz (city planner)

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Manfred Walz (born January 22, 1940 in Berlin ; † July 24, 2019 in Bochum ) was a German architect , urban planner and university professor .

Life

Manfred Walz studied architecture and urban planning at the TU Berlin . He received his doctorate with a dissertation on "Germany's industrial and housing estate policy 1933–39". He had various teaching posts; At the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig , he built up the "Experimental Environmental Design" course. From 1973 he worked in the Ruhr area. In 1978 he was offered a professorship for urban planning at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences . In 2008, together with the University of Siegen , the TH Cologne , the University of Applied Sciences Ostwestfalen-Lippe and the University of Bochum, he set up the "Master in Urban Development NRW" course. From 2008 to 2013 he was a member of the University Council of Dortmund University of Applied Sciences. He was a member of the Werkbund, in numerous design advisory boards and competition juries.

The focus of research was settlement development, lighting design on an urban scale, on cooperative housing projects, on the pioneer of regional planning Robert Schmidt and the work of Hans Scharoun in the Ruhr area.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Walz's obituary notice , Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 24, 2019
  2. ↑ Ralf Bohn, Heiner Wilharm: "Staging the City: Urbanity as an Event", transcript Verlag 2014, p. 366
  3. ↑ a b Christian Moczala: Obituary Professor Dr. Manfred Walz , University of Applied Sciences Dortmund, August 6, 2019; accessed on August 24, 2019
  4. ↑ Obituary: Mourning for Prof. Dr. Manfred Walz , Technical University of Cologne, August 12, 2019; accessed on August 24, 2019
  5. ↑ Obituary: Mourning Prof. Dr. Manfred Walz , University of Siegen, July 29, 2019; accessed on August 24, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Walz, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban planner and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2019
Place of death Bochum