Richard Johann Dietrich

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Wooden bridge near Essing
Chain Bridge Neuperlach
Thalkirchner Bridge
Dragon tail
Ladenberg Bridge, Potsdam

Richard Johann Dietrich (born December 29, 1938 in Munich ; † November 2019 ) was a German architect and civil engineer . His bridges were particularly well known.

Life

After the death of his father in 1950, Dietrich attended the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg. From 1960 to 1966 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich , among others with Gerd Albers . Until 1967 a USA scholarship followed, when studying civil engineering at the University of Southern California . At the time he was working in the team of Konrad Wachsmann (1901–1980) in Los Angeles.

From 1965 to 1974 Dietrich developed the Metastadt building system, the vision of urban planning for the future, realized with the companies OKAL and Thyssen .

In 1969 he founded an architecture office in Munich, which had also been active in Hof Bergwiesen near Traunstein since 1972 . In 1975 he was co-founder of the first institute for building biology in Rosenheim , the realization of a biological-ecological house followed in 1978 in Wasserburg . In 1978 Dietrich was commissioned to build a bridge over the Main-Danube Canal near Essing , which was completed in 1986 as a timber tensioning strap bridge. Numerous timber and steel bridges, solar houses and urban district planning followed.

In 1984 he built an eco-solar demonstration house for the city of Munich. In 1985 he became a lecturer at various universities in Germany, the USA, Canada, Japan and Korea.

He added a quote from Otto Wagner :

"... only what is constructively correct can be beautiful."

- Otto Wagner

"... but not everything that is constructively correct is beautiful for that reason alone!"

- Richard J. Dietrich

Buildings and projects

Design and implementation planning

draft

membership

  • Quality Association Holz-Brückenbau eV

Publications

  • Richard J. Dietrich: Fascination Bridges. Architecture - technology - history. 1st edition, Callwey, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7667-1326-4 ; 2nd edition, Callwey, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7667-1511-9 ; 3rd edition, Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-433-03180-3 .
  • Richard J. Dietrich: Bridges - Shape and Detail / Bridges - Design and Detail. In: Detail - magazine for architecture + construction detail. Volume 39, No. 8, December 1999, pp. 1421-1427.
  • Richard J. Dietrich: A new bridge in Potsdam. Design and construction. In: [outlines]. Volume 1, No. 2, 2001, p. 42.
  • Richard J. Dietrich: New bridges over the Isar and Traun. In: Bridge Construction. Volume 1, No. 2, 2009, p. 50.
  • Richard J. Dietrich and Stefan Herion: Design and build bridges with tubular steel structures. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-433-03015-8 , p. 196.

literature

  • Richard J. Dietrich: Fascination Bridges. Architecture - technology - history. 1st edition, Callwey, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7667-1326-4 , p. 272.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bridge architect Richard Dietrich has passed away. In: Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , November 20, 2019. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Richard Johann Dietrich. In: arch INFORM .
  3. ↑ dietrich-ingenieur-architektur.de
  4. ↑ kuenstlerdatenbank.ifa.de: Richard Johann Dietrich
  5. ↑ homify.de: Munich eco-solar demonstration house, 1984
  6. ↑ a b dietrich-ingenieur-architektur.de
  7. ↑ a b structurae.de: Richard Johann Dietrich
  8. ↑ holzbrueckenbau.com: Members ( Memento from April 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Dietrich, Richard Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, Richard J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 2019