Myra Warhaftig

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Memorial plaque on the house in Dessauer Strasse 39, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Myra Warhaftig ( Hebrew מירה ווארהפטיג; * March 11, 1930 in Haifa in the British League of Nations mandate for Palestine , today Israel ; † March 4, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German - Israeli architect , building historian and writer .

Life

Myra Warhaftig grew up in Haifa. After studying architecture at the Technion in Haifa (with Alexander Klein, among others ), she moved to Paris. There she worked in the architecture office Candilis-Josic-Wood and met Manfred Schiedhelm . In 1963 Candilis-Josic-Woods won the international competition at Freie Universität Berlin . Shadrach Woods founded an office with Manfred Schiedhelm in Berlin on Magdeburger Platz. Myra Warhaftig worked on the new university building (1967–1973) and stayed in Berlin. She did her doctorate with her thesis The obstruction of the emancipation of women through the apartment and the possibility of overcoming at the TU Berlin with Julius Posener . Myra Warhaftig built an apartment building (1993) in Berlin-Kreuzberg on Dessauer Straße 39 as part of the International Building Exhibition Berlin Neu (IBA Berlin), where she lived until her death. For the design of the floor plans, she adopted the idea of ​​the floor-to-ceiling apartment from Alexander Klein.

She taught at the architecture department of the TU Berlin housing construction, the Kassel University and the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Dessau. She devoted herself to researching the life and work of German-speaking Jewish architects and founded the association of the same name with Hedwig Wingeler, Jutta Sartory, Günter Schlusche and others in Berlin.

Works

  • Residential building Dessauerstraße 39 in Berlin-Kreuzberg 1993
  • 2.26 by 2.26 by 2.26 M. Play with living cubes. With a foreword by Jean Prouvé , Karl Krämer Verlag, 1969.
  • The obstruction of the emancipation of women through the apartment and the possibility of overcoming it . Berlin, Techn. Univ., Diss., 1978, ISBN 978-3-7609-5114-0 .
  • They laid the foundation stone - the life and work of German-speaking architects in Palestine 1918–1948 . Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 978-3-8030-0171-9 .
  • German Jewish Architects before and after 1933 - the Lexicon . Berlin: Reimer, 2005. ISBN 3-496-01326-5 .
  • They Laid the Foundation: Lives and Works of German-Speaking Jewish Architects in Palestine 1918-1948 . Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8030-0676-9 .
  • Oskar Kaufmann . FE Hübsch, Berlin et al., 1928
as a reprint (with an afterword by Myra Warhaftig): Gebr. Mann, Berlin, 1996, ISBN 3-7861-1916-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Baumann: M. Warhaftig, German Jewish architects. In: H-Soz-Kult. January 17, 2006, accessed on May 18, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Really, Myra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli architect, building historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa , Israel
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 2008
Place of death Berlin , Germany