Norfried Pohl

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Norfried Pohl (* 1943 in Berlin ) is a German-Dutch landscape architect ; one of his works was the planning of the Niddapark and the Federal Garden Show in 1989 in Frankfurt am Main .

Live and act

Norfried Pohl completed his studies in landscape architecture in Berlin with a degree in engineering and set up his own office in Berlin. At the same time, he was a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin at the Chair of Landscaping and Garden Art from 1971 to 1976 .

In 1981 he took part in the nationwide invitation to tender for the Nidda-Aue ideas competition for the design of the approx. 168 hectare site of today's Niddapark in Frankfurt am Main, as well as the 1989 Federal Garden Show that was temporarily connected to it . For his designs, Pohl received 1st prize and thus the contract for the planning and construction of the park and the Federal Garden Show. His plans were carried out in collaboration with the Sulzbach landscape architect Werner Kappes.

Pohl later moved to the Netherlands , received his doctorate at the Technical University of Delft in 1995 and founded an office for landscape architecture in Wageningen . In addition, he was a lecturer at Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen (today Wageningen University and Research Center ), where he taught and researched.

Pohl lives in the Netherlands and is now active in the field of computer art .

Publications (selection)

  • The coming city park. About basic urban sensitivities and the interference of nature . Eburon, Delft (Netherlands) 1995, ISBN 978-90-5166-442-3
  • with Werner Kappes: BUGA 1989: Separation of park and exhibition . In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  • with Werner Kappes: Frankfurt's new Volkspark Niddatal. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  • with Andreu Arriola, Adriaan Geuze , Steen Høyer, Bernard Huet, Peter Latz : Modern Park Design. Recent trends . Thot, Bussum 1995, ISBN 978-90-6868-069-0

literature

  • Fritz Krämer, Jochen Gauert: Volkspark Niddatal and Federal Garden Show 1989 Frankfurt am Main. In: Garten + Landschaft 4, 1989, Callwey Verlag, Munich
  • Federal Garden Show Frankfurt 1989 GmbH (publisher): Volkspark Niddatal, Federal Garden Show 1989, documentation of the project. Abt, Weinheim 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ VIAF
  2. ↑ a b c Expositie van Norfried Pohl en Gerjan Marcolina - Digital Art. Accessed June 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Een panklaar park is gauw saai. Retrieved June 30, 2020 (Dutch).
  4. ↑ Technical University Berlin, University Archives, University Guide UA TUB inventory 707
  5. ^ City of Frankfurt am Main: Volkspark Nidda. Retrieved July 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Sieverts: "Nature in the City" - But how? In: Garten + Landschaft 5/82, pp. 341–346 (342)
  7. ^ Fritz Krämer, Jochen Gauert: Volkspark Niddatal and Federal Garden Show 1989 Frankfurt am Main. In: German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Management (ed.): Garden + Landscape . Volume 4/89, Verlag Georg DW Callwey, Munich, April 1989, p. 26
  8. ↑ design . The Service, 1993 ( google.de [accessed July 5, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Norfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pohl, Norfried Erich Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin