Thilo Hilpert

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Thilo Hilpert (* 1947 in Köthen (Anhalt) ) is a German architect , urban sociologist , author and emeritus professor of architecture of RheinMain University in Wiesbaden.

Life

Thilo Hilpert and his family moved from the GDR to the FRG in 1951 , where he grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and graduated from high school in 1966.

Svenska Dagbladet December 23, 1933: Le Corbusier total plan

His father was an architect, photographer and head of a large housing association. As a teenager, Hilpert traveled to Paris, Brussels, Rome, Madrid and Istanbul. He got to know the director Fritz Lang , the philosopher Ernst Bloch and the architect Le Corbusier (grant 1965 from the city of Ludwigshafen).

Hilpert studied sociology, German literature and art history in Mannheim and Göttingen (Magister) from 1967 to 1972, then from 1972 architecture in Berlin and Paris and completed his architecture studies in 1978 at the University of Kaiserslautern with a focus on urban planning (with Albert Speer Jr. ). From 1970 he conducted research on Le Corbusier's estate in Paris on the urban planning concepts of the modern age and received his doctorate from the sociologist Hans Paul Bahrdt in Göttingen (Dr. disc. Pol., Summa cum laude).

Umayyad Mosque Damascus, Photo: Ulrich Waacke

In 1978 Hilpert became an assistant in the architecture department at the TU Berlin , researching and publishing on questions of historical urban structures and modern urban planning ( functionalism , Bruno Taut , Prager Platz). In 1983 he completed his habilitation on the critical new edition of the “ Charter of Athens ”, taught from 1984 to 1985 as a professor at the University of Damascus and built up postgraduate studies there. Together with students from the University of Damascus, he planned the urban renewal of the old town of Damascus, which was threatened by the “Plan Ecochard”, carried out an exemplary building survey and renovated the Suqaq Humrawi at the Omayad Mosque .

Hilpert was appointed professor at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences in 1984, where he taught urban planning, design and design until 2012. He is with the art historian Dr. Gabriele Kiesewetter married, has two sons and lives in Heidelberg.

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Damascus, city view, photo: Feldstein

In 1988 Hilpert took on a visiting professorship at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia and has since been in professional exchange with architectural theorists such as Joseph Rykwert, Kenneth Frampton , Manfredo Tafuri, Claude Schnaidt , Tomás Maldonado . In 1990 he carried out the Osthafen research project in Frankfurt in the State of Hesse in 1990, planned large areas with a framework model and simulation and developed new experimental methods for environmentally friendly urban planning. In addition to Oswald Mathias Ungers , Herzog & de Meuron, he was invited to the urban planning competition for the World Exhibition in Hanover , wrote reports on the redevelopment of large estates such as Berlin-Marzahn and worked with futurologists and landscape planners from France. The subject of “legacy and legacy of modernity” became the focus of his teaching and research. His colloquium "Le Corbusier in Germany" in Wiesbaden in 1996, funded by the DFG ( German Research Foundation ) and UNESCO , was carried out in numerous cities and enabled research with colleagues in Nancy, Paris and Brussels on post-war modernism in Germany (German post-war architecture, International building exhibition Berlin, churches by Rudolf Schwarz , Ernst Neufert , city visions of the 60s) and Europe.

In 1999 Hilpert was appointed a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and of the “Première Rue”, Cité Radieuse Le Corbusier in Briey-en-Foret. He gave lectures in Mexico and in 2000 in Chicago, Cincinnati and Boston (“German Architecture from Bauhaus to the Future”). Documentation of the work of Mies van der Rohe in the USA. Hilpert added the exhibition "Mies van der Rohe in post-war Germany", which he developed with students and showed in 2002 in the Masters' Houses in Dessau. In partnership with Reinhold Rüttenauer, who worked as a student in Egon Eiermann's office on the German pavilion for the Brussels World Exhibition in 1958, he successfully participated in numerous urban planning competitions and developed urban planning reports for the renovation and renewal of housing developments in the post-war period .

Ferdinand Kramer: Building in Existing Buildings (Post-War Modernism). New portal to the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt, Photo: Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F006599-0002

In 2004 Hilpert used methods of building surveys for modern buildings to “document a building at risk of demolition” as part of Ferdinand Kramer's research project “ Philosophikum” . Hilpert worked with students on this research project, as well as his urban planning drafts for the reconstruction of war-torn cities and the study “Conversions for living and housing in old age” in the years 2004 to 2006, in order to develop the technical basis for a future course “ Building in Existence " to develop.

With the DFG-funded colloquium "Modern Architecture in Postwar Europe" in 2005, he provided an overview of the state of research on post-war modernism in Europe, exchanged scientific information with foreign universities and professors in the networked research project of the DFG "Monument Modernism" and provided support in international cooperation Doctoral theses by highly qualified graduates of the HS Rhein-Main . He expanded this exchange in building research and urban planning with universities in India, Brazil and China, where he collaborated with Jiaotong University in Chengdu in teaching and research.

With his book Century of Modernity, Architecture and Urban Development, Essays and Texts , published by Springer-Vieweg Verlag in 2015 , he summarized his insights and findings on modern building culture from 1904 to 2016.

Fonts

  • Le Corbusier. Analysis of its architecture . Catalog for a photo tour from 1965. Self-published by Stadtbücherei Ludwigshafen. September 1966
  • The functional city. Le Corbusier's city vision, conditions, motifs, backgrounds (= Bauwelt Fundamente. 48). Vieweg, Braunschweig 1978, ISBN 3-528-08648-3 .
  • Le Corbusier's “Charter of Athens”. Critical Edition, Introduction: Historicism and the Aesthetics of Modernity . (= Bauwelt Foundations. 56). Vieweg, Braunschweig 1984/1988, ISBN 3-528-08756-0 .
  • Britz Horseshoe Estate 1926–1980. A housing estate from the 1920s as an object of study. (= Documents from research and teaching. No. 1). TU Berlin, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-7983-5053-1 .
  • Walter Gropius. The Bauhaus in Dessau. From the idea to the shape . Fischer, Frankfurt 1999, ISBN 3-596-12900-1 .
  • Mies van der Rohe in post-war Germany. The theater project, Mannheim 1953 . EA Seemann, Dresden 2002, ISBN 3-363-00770-1 .
  • with Anke Sablowski and others: Town in Mind. Urban Vision - 15 projects . Preface: Paul Virilio . Form + Zweck, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-935053-08-8 (English / German).
  • with Ard Bosenius, Jaroslaw Knoppek and Anke Sablowski: Ferdinand Kramer's high-rise building des Philosophen, Frankfurt 1961. Modernism before demolition . bauhauspress, Wiesbaden 2007.
  • with Ard Brosenius, Jasmin Brückmann and Julius Carius: Modern Architecture in Postwar Europe. Colloquium on post-war European architecture. The documentation. bauhauspress, Wiesbaden 2007.
  • Century of Modernity. Architecture and urban planning. Essays and texts. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-07042-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arch +: Author: Thilo Hilpert. arch +, 2017, accessed May 26, 2017 .
  2. ^ RheinMain University of Applied Sciences: People. RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, accessed on May 8, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Joachim Scholl: Le CorbusierArchitektur as a product of the fantasy Thilo Hilpert in conversation with Joachim Scholl. Deutschlandradio Kultur, August 27, 2015, accessed on May 26, 2017 .
  4. ^ Roland Berg: Building along the utopia. TAZ, July 1, 2015, accessed May 8, 2017 .
  5. ^ Thilo Hilpert: Mies van der Rohe in post-war Germany, Das Theaterprojekt Mannheim . EASeemann, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-363-00770-1 , p. 304 .
  6. ↑ Rudolf Bertig: Mies van der Rohe The theater project. Mies van der Rohe House Aachen, accessed on May 8, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Thilo Hilpert: Ferdinand Kramer's high-rise building of the philosophers, modernity before demolition. Documentation building and furniture, book with DVD ,. Editor: Ard C. Bosenius, Wiesbaden, 2006, accessed on May 8, 2006 .
  8. ↑ Jan Henkel: CENTURY OF MODERNITY URBAN PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE. DESIGN MADE BY JAN HENKEL, accessed May 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Thilo Hilpert: a day for literature: “the century of modernity”. In: reading. Ernst-May-Gesellschaft Frankfurt am Main, May 7, 2017, accessed on May 8, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hilpert, Thilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, urban sociologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Koethen (Anhalt)