Nikola Dischkoff

Nikola Dischkoff (* 1938 in Bulgaria ; † May 8, 2013 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German architect , urban planner and caricaturist .

Dischkoff, who fled communist Bulgaria as a young man, studied architecture in Karlsruhe . Soon after completing his studies, he was commissioned by the city of Karlsruhe to prepare a competition for the renovation of the so-called Dörfles , an old proletarian district of Karlsruhe. Dischkoff was able to convince those responsible to advertise this competition not only nationally but internationally. It was thanks to this expansion that high-ranking architects took part and that the old town was not urbanized as it was then (a ten-story high-rise was planned, among other things), but modernized carefully and based on the old building. The redevelopment of the Karlsruhe “Dörfles” became a pioneer of a new conception of urban redevelopment.

Having moved to Frankfurt, Dischkoff brought in the experience he had gained in Karlsruhe in the expansion of Dietzenbach , but ultimately failed because of the Chamber of Architects, which saw his concept as restricting the architect's freedom too much.

Dischkoff became internationally known through his work and received invitations to the Berlin City Forum, to ETH Zurich , to New York and Berkeley .

As a part-time job, Dischkoff also worked as a cartoonist and published, among other things, in the satirical magazine pardon .

Individual evidence

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