Richard Gach
Richard Gach (born October 31, 1930 in Itzling (former municipality Gnigl-Itzling, now part of Salzburg ), † December 25, 1991 in Horn ) was an Austrian architect , draftsman and watercolorist . Gach mainly planned schools for the city of Vienna and was involved in the construction of various residential areas in Vienna .
biography
Private
Richard Gach married Johanna Henke, daughter of the chemist Richard Henke . One of his sons was Christian Gach, Ministerialrat in the Austrian Federal Audit Office; his son Florian Gach taught at the universities of Vienna and Cambridge . Gach's daughter was married to the artist Helmuth Gräff . Richard Gach was a member of the Schlaraffia association under the name of the order "Ritter von Kamp" .
Professional
education
Richard Gach graduated from the Salzburg HTL for structural engineering and from 1949 studied architecture with Lois Welzenbacher at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts . As a student, at the request of the architect Roland Rainer, he built the true-to-scale model for the construction of the Wiener Stadthalle . He graduated in 1955 as a Mag. Arch. And worked for several years in the architecture office of Wilhelm Hubatsch , with whom he later won various architectural competitions.
Architectural work
At the beginning of his career, Richard Gach was also interested in building contemporary architecture, also in the context of church construction. With this access he planned the church building of Rigau near Abtenau (Salzburg) together with Robert Posch in 1956 . The realization failed because of the Pinzgau district authority. The weekly press reported that the planning therefore ended “as is customary in the country” (i.e. traditionally).
After Gach started his own business as an architect in 1958 with a studio at Spittelberg in Vienna , he became actively involved in Viennese residential and school construction. The gait school designed by Gach with 24 classes and two gyms comes from the atmosphere of the Hubatsch school concepts.
Richard Gach planned the new building of the Amerling-Gymnasium , for which the former listed Esterhazypalais ( Palais Kaunitz ) was demolished in 1970 , which led to protests in the media and in the population. The new building with 24 classrooms and two sports halls, built between 1970 and 1972, corresponds to the current typology used in the construction of secondary schools in the late 1960s, with no architectural respect for the environment .
Representing Gach's other projects in Vienna are the residential complexes Edergasse 1–3 in Vienna 21 and Josefstädter Strasse 93–97 , Vienna 8, as well as the Hernalser Gymnasium Geblergasse and the Volksschule Pfeilgasse and Neue Mittelschule Pfeilgasse , Vienna 8th.
Richard Gach was also active in Lower Austria , which is reflected in numerous construction projects such as the funeral hall in Orth an der Donau , the Amstetten grammar school , the Sparkasse Mistelbach and the secondary school in Gars am Kamp . Gach lived in his adopted home Gars am Kamp until his death. In 2011, part of his artistic estate, consisting of architectural drawings and watercolors, was auctioned there.
Construction contracts (selection)
- 1958: Housing estate Nußberggasse 9 / Bockkellergasse, Vienna 19 (with Wilhelm Hubatsch)
- 1960: Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium Amstetten (with Wilhelm Hubatsch; competition 1st prize)
- 1962–1964: Residential building Edergasse 1–3, Vienna 21
- 1963: Josefstädter Straße 93-97, Vienna 8 (with Ernst Schuster)
- 1964: Pfeilgasse Primary School and Pfeilgasse New Middle School. Pfeilgasse 42b / Stolzenthalergasse 19, Vienna 8 (with Ernst Schuster)
- 1964–1966: Sparkasse Mistelbach
- 1964–1968: Secondary school in Gars am Kamp
- 1968: Hernalser Gymnasium Geblergasse , Vienna 17
- 1960 / 70s: the funeral hall in Orth an der Donau
- 1970–1972: Amerling-Gymnasium, Vienna 6
- 1973–1977: Housing complex Leopold-Figl-Gasse 503/504 and 523/524, Gars am Kamp
- Pernegg elementary school, Lower Austria
Unrealized objects (selection)
- 1956: Church building in Rigau near Abtenau (Pongau) (with Robert Posch)
- 1956: Federal Middle School Horn (with Wilhelm Hubatsch; competition, 2nd prize)
- 1957: Administration building of Österreichische Draukraftwerke , Klagenfurt (with Wilhelm Hubatsch; competition, 1st prize)
- 1958: Urban planning competition, Vienna 10, Eisenstadtplatz (with Wilhelm Hubatsch; competition, 2nd prize)
literature
- Friedrich Achleitner , Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria): Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century: A Guide in Three Volumes, Volume 3, Part 2, p. 186
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bettina Marchart and Markus Holzweber (eds.): Garser stories. Gars am Kamp. Thousands of years of cultural landscape (2014). Chapter 11: Architecture and Art in Gars , by Anton Ehrenberger, p. 381
- ^ Wiener Wohnen - community apartments .
- ↑ Hall of Fame - Give us back the Vienna Stadthallenturnier!
- ↑ Gach owed this fact to his skill in building architectural models.
- ↑ a b c d e Wilhelm Hubatsch. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
- ^ Norbert Mayr: Stadtbühne and Talschluss: Baukultur in Stadt und Land Salzburg , p. 279 (2006)
- ↑ Norbert Mayr and Erich Erker: Replica and moderate modernity. On the reconstruction of Salzburg Cathedral after 1945 , p. 17 (2009)
- ^ Living in Vienna
- ^ Friedrich Achleitner , Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria): Austrian Architecture in the 20th Century: A Guide in Three Volumes , Volume 3, Part 2, p. 186
- ^ Vienna History Wiki
- ^ Middle School Pfeilgasse: Pfeilgasse is celebrating its 50th birthday
- ↑ Festschrift for the opening of the new house - Bundesgymnasium u. Economics federal high school for girls, Amstetten 1966
- ↑ Newspaper article on www.noen.at: "Flagship NMS Gars"
- ↑ Waldviertelnews.at
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gach, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Itzling |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1991 |
| Place of death | horn |