Robert Wiper

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Robert Wischer (2002)

Robert Wischer (born July 7, 1930 in Wilhelmshaven ; † August 27, 2007 in Berlin ) was a German architect . He was considered a leading architect for hospital construction in Germany.

Life

Wischer studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart until 1955 . In 1962 he founded a joint office with Erwin Heinle , since 1969 as Heinle, Wischer und Partner .

Wischer-Villa Am Rupenhorn 25

As one of the leading hospital architects in Germany, Wischer designed, among other things, the Cologne University Hospital , the Göttingen University Hospital, the new building for the Rheinische Kliniken Bonn , the new building for the Katharinen Hospital in Stuttgart , the Brandenburg Hospital, the Ludwigshafen Hospital and the Ulm Army Hospital . He also designed the Robert Bosch plant in Reutlingen and the award-winning office building for Finanz IT GmbH in Hanover . He was also responsible for the designs for the Olympic Village in Munich . Most recently, he worked on the planning for the new building of the Nazi documentation center Topography of Terror in Berlin. His office has won numerous awards and prizes.

In 1976 he received a reputation as a professor of design (buildings of health care) to the Technical University of Berlin . He was also director of the Institute for Hospital Construction , from 1993 Institute for Health Sciences - Public Health . From 1977 to 1980 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center for Hospital Construction. In 1998 he founded the Archive Hospital Construction of the 20th Century. In 1998 he retired .

In 1993, Wischer and city planner Christa Kliemke bought a villa above Stößensee . The country house was built in 1929/1939 by the architects Hans and Wassili Luckhardt and the architect Alfons Anker for themselves in the New Objectivity style as a new staging of the classic villa . Kliemke and Wischer had the house restored with the support of the State Monuments Office and the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the interior was dismantled to its condition from 1930. On March 19, 2005, the listed building was reopened in the presence of the former Federal Minister for Regional Planning, Building and Urban Development, Klaus Töpfer . Wischer lived in the country house until his death in August 2007. (See in detail: Am Rupenhorn and Luckhardt-Villa .)

Fonts

  • (together with Hille Rau): Single or multiple bed rooms in an acute hospital - analyzes of their suitability. Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7828-1483-5 .
  • (together with Hille Rau): The Friesen concept for the hospital and for the healthcare of tomorrow. Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-7828-4001-1 .
  • (together with Hans-Ulrich Riethmüller): Hospital open to the future. A dialogue between medicine and architecture. Manual for planning practice. Springer, Vienna 2007, ISBN 3-211-25894-9 .

Web links

Commons : Robert Wischer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
  2. ↑ Architectural Gallery at Weißenhof ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Newly restored and open as a “forum of modernity”. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weissenhofgalerie.de
  3. ↑ Christa Kliemke, Robert Wischer: Modern "revisited": Landhaus am Rupenhorn . In: Bauwelt , vol. 98 No. 34, Berlin 2007, pp. 22-23, ISSN  0005-6855 .
personal data
SURNAME Wiper, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilhelmshaven
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 2007
Place of death Berlin