Norman Braun (architect)

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Norman Braun (born August 30, 1912 in Johannesburg / South Africa ; † July 6, 1986 in Berlin ) was a German architect .

Life

Braun lived in Berlin since 1916. He studied from 1931 to 1937 at the Technical University of Berlin, graduating with Heinrich Tessenow . Since 1937 employee in the office of Hans Köhler , during the Second World War with Egon Eiermann , where he was involved in the planning and construction of the alternative hospital in Beelitz-Heilstätten from 1942-44 . Braun's time at Eiermann was interrupted by several war missions, which he carried out with a structural engineering pioneer unit.

After 1945 Braun worked as a freelance architect. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked on major urban development projects in Charlottenburg-Nord (executive architect for the Berlin-Brandenburg-Aufbaugesellschaft), in Gropiusstadt in Berlin-Neukölln and on the John Locke housing estate in Berlin-Lichtenrade .

Buildings in Berlin (selection)

Own house, 1956/57, view of the garden front
  • Denninger department store, Breite Strasse 25-29, Spandau (1950). In 1963 a second floor was added, the facade redesigned in 1971.
  • Residential complex and row of shops Seegefelder Strasse 58–62 / Borkzeile 7–11, Spandau (1953/56). Row development , green and open spaces. Partly unusual room layout: living room and corridors with direct daylight extending across the entire width of the house.
  • Row houses at Heerstraße 163/165 and Am Rupenhorn 1, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1955). Two rows of four homes each.
  • Tenement Schlüterstr. 64, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1956). Business premises, five residential floors and a sixth back floor. Large windows, leather-colored tiles.
  • New French church with residential building, Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Joachim-Friedrich-Str., Built between 1959–1961
  • Own house, Am Rupenhorn 1b, Berlin-Westend (1956/57). Four levels in split-level construction, generous window fronts on the garden side with a view of the Havel landscape, yellow clinker bricks, flat saddle roof.
  • Apartment building Haeftenzeile 2-8, Charlottenburg-Nord (1956). Quite conventional construction, together with Werner Labes.
  • Residential houses at Heerstrasse 384–400, Berlin-Spandau (1957/58). Modern floor circulation heating systems made it possible to heat several rooms with just one stove.
  • Apartment building Bismarckstrasse 82/83, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1958). Shop floor, five upper floors and a sixth lower floor (rebuilt after 1990); light clinker brick, light blue parapets on the courtyard facade.
Facade detail of residential building Loschmidtstrasse, 1958/59
  • Tenement houses Otto-Suhr-Allee 50–68 and Loschmidtstrasse 1–15 / 18–26 / Alt-Lietzow 42, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1958/59). Six to eight storeys high, flat roofs, simple windows alternate with loggias. Originally, the color of the parapet strips on the floors varied from house to house.
  • Halemweg 17 shopping center, Charlottenburg-Nord (1960). Atrium with 20 shops and a landscaped courtyard.
  • Housing complex, Am Rupenhorn 4, Berlin-Charlottenburg (1960). Erected on behalf of the broadcaster Free Berlin .
  • Krowelstrasse, Berlin-Spandau (1960/61). Four- and seven-storey residential complexes, with good sunshine.
  • Residential houses at Heerstrasse 277–283, Berlin-Spandau (1962/64). Five row houses in north-south orientation with a total of 116 apartments.
  • Primary school at the Regenweiher, Johannisthaler Chaussee 328, Gropiusstadt / Berlin-Neukölln (1963/65). Four-wing system in conventional one- and two-storey construction; for 20 classes and four pre-school classes; Multipurpose hall, gym and caretaker's apartment.
  • Row high-rise building Heerstraße 387 / Sandstraße, Berlin-Spandau (1964/66). Arcade house for the GSW ; Garages on the ground floor, apartments extend over several floors.
  • 78 single-family houses between Sandstrasse and Vogelzeile, Berlin-Spandau (1965/66). Flat roof buildings in row house formation.
  • Residential buildings at Wollankstrasse 34–53, Berlin-Gesundbrunnen (1966/67).
  • Cemetery chapel in the French churchyard, Wollankstrasse 50, Berlin-Gesundbrunnen (1967).
  • High-rise buildings, Hakenfelder Strasse, Berlin-Spandau (1968/69). 132 two to four room apartments on 17 or 18 floors, south and west balconies with a view of the Spandau Forest.

Archives

The library and professional estate of Norman Braun are located in the architecture archive of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) . The files on compulsory membership in the Reich Chamber of Culture are in the Federal Archives in Berlin.

literature

  • New residential buildings in Berlin-Spandau. Architect Dipl.-Ing. Norman Braun , in: Bauwelt 46 (1955), issue 48, p. 976 f.
  • Irmgard Wirth (edit.): The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961.
  • this: The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, panel volume, Berlin 1961.
  • Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Red.): Spandau. A city changes its face. Forty years of building history in Spandau , Berlin 1985.
  • Karl HP Bienek: Living in Siemensstadt. Housing and social buildings, supply, traffic, education and leisure facilities , Berlin 1992.
  • Sonja Hildebrand: Egon Eiermann. The Berlin time. The complete architectural work up to 1945 (dissertation TU Munich), Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-528-02424-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Artists Dictionary , XIV, 1996, 9; Sonja Hildebrand, Egon Eiermann. The Berlin time. The complete architectural work up to 1945 (= dissertation TU Munich), Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, p. 359; Irmgard Wirth (arr.), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 675.
  2. ↑ Checked on the basis of the written sources in the architecture archive of the Academy of Arts (Berlin); so also in Hildebrand, p. 359. In the Allgemeine Künstlerlexikon (XIV, 1996, 9) the date of death is incorrectly stated. In several online databases wrong information is circulating, optionally about the year of birth, the year of death or both.
  3. ^ Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 675.
  4. ↑ Sonja Hildebrand, Egon Eiermann. The Berlin time. The complete architectural work up to 1945 (= dissertation TU Munich), Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1999, p. 219.
  5. ↑ Hildebrand, p. 359.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Grothe, Reconstruction in the 1950s , in: Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Red.): Spandau. A city changes its face. Forty years of building history in Spandau , Berlin 1985, pp. 33–70, p. 43.
  7. ↑ New residential buildings in Berlin-Spandau. Architect Dipl.-Ing. Norman Braun , in: Bauwelt , Heft 48, 1955, pp. 976f. Monument database Berlin, OBJ-Doc-No. 09046379
  8. ^ Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , Part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 446 f .; Fig. 566 f. in: Irmgard Wirth (arr.), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, panel volume, Berlin 1961.
  9. ^ Monument database Berlin, OBJ-Doc-No. 09096422.
  10. ^ Monument database Berlin, OBJ-Doc-No. 09096077; Irmgard Wirth (arr.), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. Stadt und Bezirk Charlottenburg , 2nd part, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 447. House with many perspectives , in: Film und Frau 10 (1958), booklet 11, p. 118f .; At the very top is the large living room , in: Schöner Wohnen 2 (1961) Heft 5, pp. 12-17.
  11. ^ Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and District of Charlottenburg , Part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 463; Fig. 601, in: Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, panel volume, Berlin 1961.
  12. ↑ Jürgen Grothe, building boom in Spandau , in: Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Red.): Spandau. A city changes its face. Forty years of building history in Spandau , Berlin 1985, pp. 71–118, p. 110.
  13. ^ Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 453.
  14. ^ Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 462.
  15. ^ Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), The buildings and art monuments of Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , Part 2, text volume, Berlin 1961, p. 464; Fig. 604 f., In: Irmgard Wirth (arrangement), Die Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin. City and district of Charlottenburg , part 2, panel volume, Berlin 1961.
  16. ^ Monument database Berlin, OBJ-Doc-No. 09040461.
  17. ↑ Jürgen Grothe, building boom in Spandau , in: Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Red.): Spandau. A city changes its face. Forty years of building history in Spandau , Berlin 1985, pp. 71–118, p. 88.
  18. ↑ Jürgen Grothe, building boom in Spandau , in: Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Red.): Spandau. A city changes its face. Forty years of building history in Spandau , Berlin 1985, pp. 71–118, p. 106.
  19. ^ Hans Bandel / Dittmar Machule, Die Gropiusstadt. The urban planning and decision-making process , Berlin 2nd edition 1974, p. 165.
  20. ^ Rolf Rave / Hans-Joachim Knöfel, Building since 1900 in Berlin , Berlin 1968, No. 204.
  21. ↑ Jürgen Grothe, building boom in Spandau , in: Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Red.): Spandau. A city changes its face. Forty years of building history in Spandau , Berlin 1985, pp. 71–118, p. 109.
  22. ↑ a b Rolf Rave / Hans-Joachim Knöfel, Building since 1900 in Berlin , Berlin 1968, p. 3.
  23. ↑ Jürgen Grothe, building boom in Spandau , in: Gerhard Dünnhaupt (Red.): Spandau. A city changes its face. Forty years of building history in Spandau , Berlin 1985, pp. 71–118, p. 81.

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personal data
SURNAME Braun, Norman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1986
Place of death Berlin , Germany