Reinhard Gieselmann

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Reinhard Gieselmann (born June 11, 1925 in Münster (Westphalia) ; † February 6, 2013 in Karlsruhe ) was a German architect and university professor.

Life

Gieselmann was able to continue studying architecture at the TH Danzig during the Second World War at the TH Karlsruhe . In 1950 he graduated from Egon Eiermann there . After changing positions at architectural offices in Mannheim , Basel and Krefeld , he settled in 1954 as a freelance architect in Ludwigshafen .

In 1955 he did his doctorate at the TH Aachen under Hans Schwippert . In 1957 he married the daughter of the architect Alfred Fischer , Maria Verena Fischer, and founded an office community with both of them in their place of residence in Karlsruhe. As a result, he designed numerous residential buildings there, mostly of high standards. In 1965 he started operating as a freelance architect.

In 1960 Gieselmann published the Manifesto Towards a New Architecture together with his long-time friend Oswald Mathias Ungers

From 1969 to 1992 Gieselmann held the professorship for residential construction at the Technical University of Vienna ; During this time he also designed several community buildings for the city . In 1979 he was visiting professor at North Carolina State University , School of Design, Raleigh, North Carolina .

In the course of the increased appreciation of post-war modernism , some of Gieselmann's residential buildings in Karlsruhe were placed under monument protection.

buildings

Jakobuskirche Sinsheim (1966)

literature

  • Gerhard Kabierske: Reinhard Gieselmann - In Search of Style . Edition Axel Menges 2007 ISBN 978-3-932565-55-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. Gieselmann, Ungers: To a new architecture . 1960 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ WN: Cardinal Höffner's house must stand still . November 14, 2012
  3. Entry in the Karlsruhe monument list
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