Rolf Gutbrod

Rolf Gutbrod (born September 13, 1910 in Stuttgart , † January 5, 1999 in Arlesheim in the canton of Basel-Landschaft , Switzerland; full name: Konrad Rolf Dietrich Gutbrod ) was a German architect and university professor .

Life

Gutbrod was a son of the doctor Theodor Gutbrod and his wife Eugenie Sofie, geb. Wizemann. He first attended the Free Waldorf School in Stuttgart, the first Waldorf school. Gutbrod began studying architecture at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1929 and 1930, among others at Jobst Siedler. From 1930 to 1931 and from 1932 to 1935 he continued his studies with Paul Bonatz , Paul Schmitthenner a . a. at the Technical University of Stuttgart . After working in the offices of Gustav August Munzer and Günter Wilhelm he made in 1936 in Stuttgart independently , but worked 1936-1937 again by the said office.

After serving in the public service during the war years, Gutbrod resumed his independent work as an architect in 1946, an important employee from this time was Ottmar Besenfelder . In 1947 he became a lecturer for design at the Technical University (now the University) of Stuttgart, from 1957 he taught as a visiting professor at the İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi , where his teacher Paul Bonatz, who died in 1956, worked from 1946 to 1954. From 1961 to 1972 he was full professor for interior design in Stuttgart. A visiting professorship at the University of Washington in Seattle followed in 1963.

He was best known for the Stuttgart Liederhalle , together with Adolf Abel , the first asymmetrical concert hall in the world, with a freely curved floor plan and the German pavilion for the world exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal , together with Frei Otto .

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  New Liederhalle , 1956

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  German pavilion for the world exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal, 1967

Buildings (selection)

• Heating house of the flak barracks in the Fallenbrunnen in Friedrichshafen , 1937
• House of the timber trade association in Stuttgart (known as “LOBA House”), with Ottmar Besenfelder , 1949–1950.
• Milk bar at the Flamingo Lake for the German Garden Show 1950 , Höhenpark Killesberg , Stuttgart, 1950, with Denes Holder .
• Publishing houses for the mail order bookshop " Rieck Aulendorf ", Aulendorf , 1952–1953, with Denes Holder .
• Student house ( clubhouse and dormitory) of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , inaugurated in 1956, competition design from 1954
• Liederhalle Stuttgart , Konzerthaus, 1956 with Adolf Abel
• IBM administration building in Berlin , 1960–1962
• Skyscraper on Friedrichstrasse (former VW Hahn skyscraper) in Stuttgart , 1962–1964
• Housing estate in Gropiusstadt in Berlin, 1962–1968
• Württembergische Bank in Stuttgart, on Kleiner Schlossplatz 1963–1968
• German Embassy Vienna , Metternichgasse 3, 1963
• House of Advertising in Berlin ("Dorland House"), 1964–1966 (with Horst Schwaderer and Hermann Kiess)
• University and City Library Cologne as well as the lecture hall building of the University of Cologne , 1964–1968
• German pavilion at the 1967 World Exhibition in Montreal together with Frei Otto u. a.
• Free Waldorf School at the Kräherwald in Stuttgart, 1968
• Rudolf Steiner School in Wuppertal, 1974
• Hotel and conference center Mecca , Saudi Arabia 1966–1974 (with Frei Otto )
• Broadcasting house of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) in Stuttgart, 1966–1976 (" Stuttgarter Funkhaus ")
• Hotel and conference center in Mecca , 1980
• TV tower Stuttgart , 1982 (redesign of the interior of the tower cage )
• Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , 1985 (only partially based on a draft by Gutbrod)

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  Clubhouse in Tübingen (1956)

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  Skyscraper on Friedrichstrasse in Stuttgart (1962–1964)

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  The Dorland House in Berlin (1964–1966)

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  Württembergische, today Baden-Württembergische Bank in Stuttgart (1963–1968)

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  University and City Library Cologne (1964–1968)

Prizes and awards

• 1968: Auguste Perret Prize ( Prix ​​Perret ) of the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA) for the German pavilion at the world exhibition Expo 67 in Montreal, Canada.
• 1969: Hugo Häring Prize for the administration building of the Württembergische Bank in Stuttgart
• 1970: Paul Bonatz Prize for the buildings of the Württembergische Bank, Stuttgart
• 1971: Order Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts
• 1972: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1972: Paul Bonatz Prize for the buildings of the Uhlandshöhe Waldorf School, Stuttgart
• 1980: Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the hotel and conference center in Mecca , Saudi Arabia

estate

From Gutbrod's estate there is an extensive work archive with approx. 25,700 plans and 12,500 photographs in the holdings of the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering (SAAI) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology .

literature

• SAAI: The work of the architect Rolf Gutbrod , notes from the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, number 6, 2nd, changed edition 2000.
• Margot Dongus: Rolf Gutbrod: Studies on the life and work of the architect. Dissertation from the University of Stuttgart , 2000; Wasmuth, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-8030-2100-6 .
• Initiative group Rolf Gutbrod: The architect Rolf Gutbrod - from Stuttgart to Mecca. Festschrift for the 100th birthday. Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-032163-4 , table of contents.
• Klaus Jan Philipp (Ed.): Rolf Gutbrod. Buildings in the boom years of the 1960s. Müry Salzmann, Salzburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9901403-5-2 .
• Rolf Derenbach: Exemplary buildings by the architect Rolf Gutbrod in the orientation phase of building 1950–1970, second, extended version , Bonn: Dr. Rolf Derenbach, Berlin: University Library of the Free University of Berlin 2019 (Publication of the University Library of the Free University of Berlin), ISBN 978-3-96110-247-1 .
• Martina Goerlich: Form out of function: Rolf Gutbrod's forgotten early work in the former flak barracks in Friedrichshafen-Schnetzenhausen (PDF), in: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 48, No. 3 (2019), pp. 157–163
• Ralf Liptau: Forming architectures: The model in design processes in post-war modernism. Bielefeld 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4440-1 ; on Rolf Gutbrod, especially p. 51 ff. and p. 142 ff.
• Jörg Widmaier, A "World Monastery" for Upper Swabia, Rolf Gutbrod's publishing houses for the bookseller Josef Rieck in Aulendorf , in: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 48, No. 4 (2019), pp. 276–282
• Joachim Kleinmanns: The German pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal. A key work of German post-war architecture. DOM publishers, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-86922-751-1 , table of contents , review:.

Movie

• Rolf Gutbrod - houses for people. Documentary, Federal Republic of Germany, 1974, 57 min., Script and director: Gisela Reich, production: SDR Stuttgart, film data from Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg online .

Web links

Commons : Rolf Gutbrod  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Rolf Gutbrod in the catalog of the German National Library
• The work of the architect Rolf Gutbrod In: saai , (PDF; 12 p., 1.7 MB), February 2000
• Professor Rolf Gutbrod, architect (1910–1999). Houses for people. Initiative group Rolf Gutbrod.

Biographies

• Rolf Gutbrod. In: arch INFORM .
• Rolf Gutbrod. City of Stuttgart.
• Rolf Gutbrod. In: Die Zeit , January 14, 1999, No. 3 (obituary).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolf Gutbrod. In: arch INFORM .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Gutbrod. In: City of Stuttgart , accessed on January 24, 2020.
3. ^ The work of the architect Rolf Gutbrod (PDF), in: SAAI • Notes from the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe , number 6, 2nd revised edition 2000
4. ↑ Martina Goerlich, Form out of function: Rolf Gutbrod's forgotten early work in the former flak barracks in Friedrichshafen-Schnetzenhausen , in: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 48, No. 3 (2019), pp. 157-163.
5. ^ Roman Hillmann: The first post-war modernity. Aesthetics and perception of West German architecture 1945–63. Imhof, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-589-6 , pp. 67-90.
6. ↑ Jörg Widmaier, A "World Monastery" for Upper Swabia, Rolf Gutbrod's publishing houses for the bookseller Josef Rieck in Aulendorf , in: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 48, No. 4 (2019), pp. 276–282.
7. ↑ Ulla Hanselmann: Architecture of the century from Stuttgart. A tent for “Swinging Germany” - picture 7. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 7, 2020.
8. ^ Hugo Häring Awards 1969 to 2000. ( Memento from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: BDA Baden-Württemberg .
9. ↑ Rolf Gutbrod (1910-1999). In: saai , accessed on January 24, 2020.
10. ↑ Ulla Hanselmann: Architecture of the century from Stuttgart. A tent for "Swinging Germany". In: Stuttgarter Zeitung , January 7, 2020, with photo gallery.