Max Cetto

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Shed hall by Max Cetto from 1928 in the Ostpark of Frankfurt - Ostend , as it was in 2011

Max Cetto (born February 20, 1903 in Koblenz , † April 5, 1980 in Mexico City ; full name: Max Ludwig Cetto ) was a German-Mexican architect .

Life

Cetto studied architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt , the Technical University of Munich and most recently at the Technical University of Berlin with Hans Poelzig , where he graduated in 1925. He then worked for Ernst May in the Frankfurt am Main settlement office on the New Frankfurt project . From 1929 he taught for a few years at what is now the Offenbach School of Design .

In 1928 he was one of the founding members of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (International Congress of Modern Architecture), which was a renowned forum for architects and urban planners until the late 1950s.

Between 1936 and 1937, together with other architects, he was responsible for the implementation of the construction plans for the Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg .

In 1938 he emigrated to the USA and worked in San Francisco with the Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra .

He went to Mexico in May 1939 and became a Mexican citizen in 1947. There he worked as an architect, among others, together with Jorge Rubio and Luis Barragán , and accepted several visiting professorships at US and Mexican universities.

The art historian Anna Maria Cetto was his sister. He was married to Catarina Kramis and they have three children.

Archives

Max Cetto Archive Frankfurt, German Architecture Museum Frankfurt.

Archivo Max Cetto, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Azcapotzalco, México.

Max Cetto Papers, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

McCoy, Esther, Esther McCoy Papers, 1920-1989. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Fonts

  • Glass and health. In: Frankfurter Zeitung , October 1929.
  • A factory from 1903. The factory building of the Margarete Steiff toy factory, Giengen ad Brenz (Wttbg.). In: Das Neue Frankfurt , 4th year 1932/1933, p. 88.
  • Letter from a young German architect to Dr. Goebbels. In: Die Neue Stadt , May 1933 edition, pp. 26–28.
    • Carta de un joven arquitecto alemán al Sr. Goebbels, Ministro del Reich de Propaganda e Ilustración del Pueblo. (Translated into Spanish by Mariana Frenk Westheim) In: Susanne Dussel Peters: Max Cetto (1903–1980). Arquitecto mexicano-aleman. UAM, México 1995, ISBN 970-62-0719-8 , pp. 70-73.
  • Notes at the time. The seem-more-than-being has been successfully industrialized. In: Baukunst und Werkform , born 1954, No. 5, pp. 247–249.
  • Residential buildings in a lava landscape in Mexico. In: Baukunst und Werkform , born 1954, issue 1–2, pp. 37–58.
  • Mexico today. In: Bauwelt , born 1955, No. 52, p. 1078.
  • Lettre de Mexique. In: Zodiac , No. 1 (October 1957), p. 206.
  • Modern Architecture in Mexico / Arquitectura moderna en México. F. Praeger, New York City 1961.
  • Modern Architecture in Mexico / Modern Architecture in Mexico. Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart 1961.
  • Candela, Felix. In: Gerd Hatje (Hrsg.): Knaur's Lexicon of Modern Architecture. Hatje Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1963, p. 58f.
  • Mexico. In: Gerd Hatje (Hrsg.): Knaur's Lexicon of Modern Architecture. Hatje Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1963, pp. 167–169.
  • Why Mexican Architecture is Different. In: Sergio Bath et al .: Symposium on Latin America. Wellesley College, Barnette Miller Foundation, Wellesley 1963, pp. 143-161.
  • Thoughts on the architecture of the future. Development trends in Mexico. In: Josef Walter Hollatz (Ed.): Building in the future. 1st International Building Congress Essen, 4. – 6. June 1964, as part of the German building exhibition DEUBAU '64. Verein Deutsches Bauzentrum eV, Essen 1964, pp. 9–28.
    • The abridged version appeared in: Der Architekt , Born 1964, No. 10 (October 1964), pp. 311–314.
    • Reflections on the construction of the future. In: Revista Calli internacional, revista analítica de arquitectura contemporánea, No. 44, México 1969, pp. 48–54 (translated from the German language by Bettina Cetto)
  • Sobre la Nueva York Fair. In: Arquitectos México , No. 22 (1965).
  • Candela and its bowls. (Translation into German and introduction by Colin Faber) Georg DW Callwey Verlag, Munich 1965.
  • Walter Gropius. (Translation into Spanish by Bettina Cetto) In: Arquitectura Mexico , No. 102 (April 1970), pp. 209-221.
  • Some Skeptical Remarks about Prophesying and Planning the Future of Architecture. In: The Semester Review of the Clemson College of Architecture (Clemson, South Carolina, USA) Spring 1971 issue (Spring 1971), pp. 1–5.
  • Influencias externas y significado de la tradición. In: Roberto Segre (Ed.): América Latina en su Arquitectura. (UNESCO, Siglo XXI eds.) México 1975, pp. 170-185.
  • Architecture Mexicaine 1968-1978. In: Techniques et Architecture , Volume 1978, No. 320 (June – July 1978), pp. 122–123.
  • Arquitectura moderna en México. In: Revista Arquitecto , 4th year 1979, No. 14 (September / October 1979).
  • O Gorman, Juan. In: Emanuel Muriel (Ed.): Contemporary Architects. St. Martin's Press, New York City 1980, p. 594.
Reviews
  • to Richard Döcker: Terrace type. In: Das Neue Frankfurt , September 1930 edition, p. 210.

literature

  • Cetto, Max Ludwig , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 184
  • Evelyn Brockhoff : To the estate of Max Cetto (1903–1980). In: Deutsches Architektur-Museum (Ed.): Architektur-Jahrbuch. Munich 1996, pp. 178-183.
  • Luis Carranza and Fernando Luiz Lara: Modern Architecture in Latin America. Art, Technology and Utopia . University of Texas Press, USA 2014.
  • Susanne Dussel Peters: Max Cetto. Arquitecto mexicano-alemán. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, México 1995, ISBN 970-62-0719-8 .
  • Susanne Dussel Peters: The architecture of Hannes Meyers and Max Cettos. From German modernism to Mexico. In: Renata von Hanffstengel (Ed.): Mexico. Well-tempered exile. Instituto de Investigaciones Interculturales Germano Mexicanas, México 1995, pp. 233-252.
  • Keith Eggener: Expressionism and Emotional Architecture in Mexico. Luis Barragán's Collaborations with Max Cetto and Mathias Goeritz. In: Architectura, Journal of the History of Architecture , No. 25. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1995, pp. 77–94.
  • Daniel Escotto: Max Cetto y la arquitectura de entreguerras. In: Bitácora-Arquitectura , No. 9 (April – June 2003), pp. 12–19.
  • Daniel Escotto: Pesquisas sobre Max Cetto. In: Piso, Ciudad al Ras , No. 6 (autumn 2004), pp. 28-35.
  • Daniel Garza Usabiaga: Max Cetto. Protagonista del desarrollo de la arquitectura moderna en México. In: Max Cetto (†): Modern Architecture in Mexico. Arquitectura moderna en México. (Reprint / facsimile) Museo de Arte Moderno, México 2011.
  • Lilia Gomez (Ed.): Entrevista con el Arquitecto Max L. Cetto. In: Testimonios Vivos. 20 arquitectos. (Cuadernos de Arquitectura y Conservación del Patrimonio Artístico, Mexico City September 15-16, 1979?) INBA, México 1979.
  • Werner Hegemann : Poelzig student. In: Wasmuth's monthly magazine for architecture and urban development , March 1931 edition, pp. 100–105.
  • Juan Manuel Heredia: The Work of Max Cetto. Restorations of Topography and Disciplinarity in Twentieth Century Modern Architecture. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2008.
  • Susan R. Henderson, Building Culture: Ernst May and the New Frankfurt Initiative, 1926–1931. Peter Lang, 2013.
  • Jorge Francisco Liernur: The (Latin) American Friend. Architecture and European Exile South of the Rio Bravo 1936-1948. In: Bernd Nicolai (Ed.): Architecture and Exile. Cultural transfer and architectural emigration from 1930 to 1950. Porta Alba, Trier 2003, pp. 157–167.
  • Louise Noelle: Cetto, Max. In: Arquitectos Contemporáneos de México. Ed. Trillas, México 1989. * Humberto Ricalde: Max Cetto. Vida y obra. Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México 2005.
  • Alfonso Pérez-Méndez, Alejandro Aptilón: Las Casas del Pedregal 1947-1968. Ed. Gustavo Gilli, Barcelona / México 2007.
  • Humberto Ricalde G: Max Cetto: vida y obra. Colección Talleres, Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2005.
  • Ida Rodríguez Prampolini: Architect Max Cetto. In: Max Cetto (†): Modern Architecture in Mexico. Arquitectura moderna en México. (Reprint / facsimile) Museo de Arte Moderno, México 2011.

as well as to individual buildings by Cetto:

  • Leather factory in Mexico. Tenerife Morelos, Cuautla (Cetto). In: Deutsche Bauzeitung , year 1970, No. 5 (from May 1970), pp. 346–348.
  • La casa Cetto en el Pedregal de San Ángel: Aire, rocas y recuerdos ... Author: Enrique X. de Anda Alanís, In: Universidad de México (Revista de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), No. 516-517 (Jan -Feb), pp. 44-48, México, 1994.
  • A citta del Messico un giardino succulento. In: La Mia Casa (Rivista di arrendamento, design, architettura, arte) No. 175, pp. 56-59, Italy, 1985

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.exilarchiv.de/DE/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=278%3Acetto-max&catid=24&lang=de
  2. ^ Norbert Rohde : Historical military objects of the Oberhavel region, Volume 1: The Heinkel aircraft factory. Oranienburg, Velten Verlag GmbH, Leegebruch 2006, ISBN 3-9811401-0-9 , p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Cetto, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cetto Day, Max Ludwig; Cetto, Max Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Mexican architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1980
Place of death Mexico city