Richard La Pierre

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Gottlieb Henri Richard La Pierre , also Lapierre (born January 21, 1842 in Berlin ; † October 14, 1893 ibid.) Was a German architect , railroad and military builder .

Life

Richard La Pierre comes from a Huguenot family. His father was the teacher and church singer Jean Frédéric La Pierre, his mother a née Matthaes. After attending school he started as a trainee with Hermann Ende and did a surveyor apprenticeship. He completed his subsequent studies at the building academy in 1866 with the construction foreman examination and then worked practically in railway construction in Berlin. In October 1872 he passed the master builder examination and got a job as a departmental master builder at the Northern Railway and was temporarily employed by Richard Lucae . In March 1877 he became a master builder and assistant teacher at the building academy. In 1879 he switched to the garrison building management, in 1880 he became a garrison building inspector, and in 1889 he was director and building officer.

buildings

In Berlin

  • 1869–1871: Entrance building of the Lehrter station , together with Alfred Lent and Bertold Scholz
  • 1874/75: Construction management during the renovation of the building academy based on a design by Richard Lucae
  • Until 1877: station building of the north station
  • 1878–1881: Construction management at the barracks in Kruppstrasse, together with Oskar Appelius , based on a design by Gustav Voigtel and Otto Heimerdinger
  • 1879/80: Extension of the Ulan barracks in Moabit, together with Appelius according to a design by Verworn
  • 1880–1883: Expansion of the Kaiser Wilhelm Military Medical Academy on the bank of the Reichstag
  • 1886–1889: Expansion of the barracks in Kruppstrasse, together with August Leo Zaar
  • 1888–1890: Expansion of the War Ministry on Wilhelmstrasse 82–85

Outside of Berlin

literature

Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century . Kulturbund der DDR, Berlin 1986, p. 57 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Barracks of the 1st Guards Field Artillery Regiment. In: Monument Database Berlin. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  2. former Ministry of War. In: Architekturmuseum TU Berlin. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .