Max Bächer

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Max Bächer (born April 7, 1925 in Stuttgart ; † December 11, 2011 in Darmstadt ) was a German architect and university professor . He was considered a doyen among the German judges .

Life

Max Bächer, son of a doctor from Stuttgart, was seriously injured in his left arm as a soldier in Italy during World War II in 1944 after graduating from high school in 1943 . In 1945 he returned and was commissioned by the American military government to reorganize the youth movements that had been disbanded by the Nazis. He was a co-founder of the Stuttgart City Youth Association and a member of the Stuttgart Cultural Association.

From 1946 Max Bächer studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart with the minor subjects art and literary history, among others with Otto Schmitt and Fritz Martini . He focused his studies on design and urban planning with Richard Döcker and Rolf Gutbier . He was assistant to Hans Hildebrandt , Chair of 20th Century Art, and got to know Willi Baumeister , Max Bill , Hugo Häring , Hans Scharoun , Walter Gropius , Alfred Roth , Tut Schlemmer and Wilhelm Wagenfeld . In 1949 he was able to study on a scholarship at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta , where he had guest proofreading with Ieoh Ming Pei and Hugh Stubbins . During an 18-month study trip through the United States, he met Charles Eames , Craig Ellwood , Ludwig Hilberseimer , Louis Kahn , Erich Mendelsohn , Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright . In 1951 he passed the diploma examination with Rolf Gutbrod at the Technical University of Stuttgart. From 1951 to 1952 Max Bächer worked for Bodo Rasch in Stuttgart, from 1955 he was a freelancer and from 1955/56 partner at Paul Stohrer in Stuttgart.

From 1956 he ran his own architecture office in Stuttgart and from 1960 was also a lecturer at the Institute for Urban Development at the Technical University of Stuttgart with Rolf Gutbier. In 1964 he received a call on the Department for designing and interior design at the Technical University of Darmstadt . From 1966 to 1970 he was chairman of the German Werkbund Baden-Württemberg . In 1975 he opened an office in Darmstadt; In 1980 Max Bächer handed over the Stuttgart office to his long-term office partner (since 1965) Harry GH Lie and also moved privately to Darmstadt. As a visiting professor, he taught at Tongji University in Shanghai in 1981 . For over 20 years he was chairman of the study reform commission for architecture and urban development at the conference of ministers of education . In 1994 he retired .

Bächer lived in Stuttgart, Darmstadt and on Lake Garda . He was married to the architect Marianne Bächer-von Simson; from his first marriage he had three daughters. Bächer died as a result of an accident in spring 2011; he was buried in Stuttgart.

Act

Max Bächer was a renowned judge at numerous competitions at home and abroad and was known as the "king of competitions". Since 1997 he has been chairman of the Salzburg design advisory board, and from 2000 to 2003 a member of the advisory board. He worked as a planning advisory board from Dresden via Bremen to Frankfurt am Main .

In addition to his construction and teaching activities, Max Bächer published over 100 publications, commemorative publications, book chapters on architecture and urban planning and was an editorial member of the BDA magazine “der architekt” for 20 years . For many years he was committed to the German Architecture Museum DAM and was chairman of the Association of Friends of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt for many years.

Max Bächer's private library was handed over to the university library of the Bauhaus University Weimar in 2012 .

Honor and awards

  • Numerous prizes and awards, multiple Paul Bonatz Prize and Hugo Häring Prize
  • 2004: Honorary doctorate from the Bauhaus University Weimar
  • 2007: Literature Prize of the German Association of Architects and Engineers DAIV for his literary work
  • 2009: Honorary membership of the BDA Hessen for its lifelong commitment to building and urban culture

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Buildings (selection)

Fonts (incomplete)

  • The small and the large green. An exhibition by Max Bächer, Walter Belz, Hans Kammerer, Hans Luz, Wolfgang Miller, Klaus Zimmermann. Karlsruhe 1967.
  • Practical concrete technology. A guide for architects and engineers. Introduction, Beton Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977.
  • New tasks for the city, square and building as a contribution to the preservation and design of inner cities , Christian Fahrenholtz, Max Bächer, Alain Trapenard, Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1978.
  • Building in exposed concrete , Max Bächer and Erwin Heinle. Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1966.
  • The woman architect: a ladies' speech . Forum Verlag, Stuttgart 1976.
  • Kunstmuseum Bonn , essay by Max Bächer, Max Bächer and Axel Schultes, Edition Kristin Feireiss, Ernst and Son, Berlin 1994.
  • More than enclosed air. Reflections on architecture and contemporary history , Hohenheim Verlag, Stuttgart and Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-89850-155-2 .
  • It depends on what you make of it. Farewell to representationalism , Architektur-Galerie am Weißenhof, Stuttgart, 2001.
  • Zeppelin Carré Stuttgart. The transformation of an inner-city quarter. Wasmuth, Tübingen / Berlin 1999.
  • Using pictures. Buildings from 5 decades , Architektur-Galerie am Weißenhof, Spurbuch-Verlag, Baunach 2000, ISBN 3-88778-248-8 .
  • A life in public space , Otto Herbert Hajek, Max Bächer, Max Verlag, Hohenheim 2002.
  • Swabian dialectics and Stuttgart sketches , Hohenheim Verlag.

Quotes

“Body displaces space. Space displaces bodies. Space and body are opposites that determine each other. Space becomes usable through its emptiness. It is its decisive quality. "

literature

  • Frederike Lausch: Fascism and Architecture. Max Bach's examination of Albert Speer , Weimar: M Books 2019 (CCSA Topics; 2), ISBN 978-3-944425-15-3 .
  • Frederike Lausch u. a. (Ed.): Max Bächer. 50 meters of archive. Exhibition by students of art history and curatorial studies from the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and architecture students from the Technical University Darmstadt as part of the Center for Critical Studes in Architecture (CCSA) , Weimar: M BOOKS 2019, ISBN 978-3-944425-14-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "The great chairman: On the death of Max Bächer", baunetz.de of December 13, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Stefan Benz: "On the death of Max Bächer: Building with concrete and letters" ( Memento of the original from February 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Darmstädter Echo from December 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  3. ^ "Max Bächer, Darmstadt - Buildings from five decades" , Aedes Berlin , October 25, 2002
  4. ↑ a b Max Bächer ( Memento of the original dated November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the TU Cottbus , accessed on December 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tu-cottbus.de
  5. ^ Dankwart Guratzsch: "Congratulations Max Bächer" , Welt online , April 7, 2005
  6. ↑ a b BDA honorary membership for Max Bächer , DAI, accessed on December 12, 2011
  7. ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , issue 4/1963
  8. ↑ German Bauzeitung , Issue 8/1966
  9. ↑ Der Baumeister issue 1/1969, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  10. ↑ Der Baumeister volume 2/1976, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  11. ↑ Schmitt: Single- Family Homes - New Buildings and Conversions , DVA 1976
personal data
SURNAME Bächer, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 2011
Place of death Darmstadt