Walter Brune
Walter Brune (* 14. February 1926 in Bremen ) is a German architect , urban planner and real estate - entrepreneurs . He plays a role in the development of retail architecture in Germany that is just as important as Victor Gruen did in the USA.
biography
After three years of practice with Gustav August Munzer, Brune started his own business in 1950 as a young graduate engineer. He initially worked for heavy industry and, as a very young architect, built the Prosper-Haniel coal mine as well as several power plants, winding towers, etc. at the beginning of the 1950s, when he became aware of the Karstadt department store company . He built department stores for this group for 20 years. The highlight was the planning and construction of the Karstadt headquarters in Essen. Numerous buildings for trade, industry and administration for other companies also fell during this period.
For two decades, between 1950 and 1970, in addition to major projects for numerous personalities from business and industry ( Helmut Horten , Wolf, Bauknecht, etc.), he developed their country houses in the bungalow style, which were presented in architecture magazines worldwide due to their uniqueness.
Brune ran one of the busiest architecture companies in what was then the Federal Republic of Germany with satellite offices in New York, Tehran, Kabul and the Netherlands. The World Bank commissioned him in partnership with the well-known American architect Marcel Breuer to plan extensive development projects. For the Shah of Persia he created the plan for a new city on the Caspian Sea (Namak Abroud).
Entrepreneur
Brune repeatedly invested the money he earned in properties, the development of which he carried out in the 1960s, parallel to his architectural office. This is how an extensive real estate company has emerged to this day.
Retail and downtown areas
From the beginning of the 1980s he worked as an architect, developer, consultant and operator of integrated inner-city shopping centers , after planning the RheinRuhrZentrum shopping center in Mülheim an der Ruhr from 1970 to 1973 . He had to recognize from this type of building, a large, non-integrated shopping center on an industrial wasteland in the district of Heißen , that it encouraged the “inner cities to bleed out”. He then developed the concept of a city gallery , a form of multifunctional, post-modern retail architecture adapted to the inner-city block structures , which he implemented for the first time at the Kö-Galerie in Düsseldorf and repeated at the Schadow-Arkaden . The city of Eindhoven commissioned him with the help of the Heuvel Gallery to revitalize the then derelict city center. Old existing buildings were combined with new architecture.
After he recognized the effects of conventional shopping centers using the example of the RheinRuhrZentrum , he campaigned as a “city champion” for the preservation of lively inner city zones. This did not prevent him from expanding the RheinRuhrZentrum considerably in the 1990s. Among other things, he published the books Attack on the City (2006), Centro Oberhausen - The shifted city center (2009), Factory Outlet Center - A new attack on the City (2014) and Stop the desolation of our cities through shopping and outlet centers in front of the City limits (2018).
capital
According to the German Manager Magazin , Brune has assets of around 600 million euros (as of 2013). This puts him in 200th place on the list of the 500 richest Germans .
Awards, honors
- 1966: BDA award from the Association of German Architects for the construction of an investment casting plant
- 1987: ICSC European Shopping Center Award “Shopping Center of the Year 1986” for the Kö-Galerie, which was completed in 1986
- 1989: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 1991: Bouwforum Leonardo da Vinci for the Heuvel Gallery in Eindhoven and in 1992 ICSC-commendation for excellence for the project development of an inner-city shopping center
- 1994: ICSC European Shopping Center Award for the redesign of the RheinRuhrZentrum
- 1995: ICSC European Shopping-Center Award for the Schadow-Arkaden Düsseldorf
- 2005: urbanicom award for his life's work as an architect, planner, builder, cultural ambassador and media champion for the city
plant
Buildings and designs (selection)
- 1951–1954: Barbarahof house in Düsseldorf, Am Bauenhaus 49
- 1951–1955: Daily facilities at the Franz Haniel colliery in Bottrop
- 1956–1957: Horten House in Düsseldorf (demolished)
- 1957–1958: House Hoseit in Konstanz
- 1957–1959: Kauermann House in Düsseldorf
- 1958–1959: House in the vineyard in Alsace
- 1958–1959, 1964–1965: Schwietzke house in Düsseldorf
- 1958: Karstadt department store in Bremerhaven
- 1959: House Stoeckel in Ratingen-Breitscheid
- 1959/1960: Outils-Wolf gardening equipment factory in Wissembourg
- 1959–1961: Dr. Roeckerath in Düsseldorf
- 1960–1961: Hunting and forester's lodge in Carp , Eifel
- 1961–1962: Teigler house in Moers
- 1961–1963: Heimsoth house in Bergisch Neukirchen
- 1961–1964: Dr. Berg in Düsseldorf
- 1963–1965, 1975: House Engler in Meerbusch-Osterath
- 1964–1965: Karstadt department store in Celle
- 1965–1969: Karstadt head office in Essen
- 1967–1968: Starke House in Essen- Bredeney
- 1969–1970: Leendertz House in Krefeld
- 1971–1972: Josef Brune house in Düsseldorf
- 1970–1975: Münsterpark in Düsseldorf
- 1983–1986: Kö-Galerie in Düsseldorf
- 1986: Zeitturm in Kaiserswerth (together with Benno Werth )
- 1989–1992: Heuvel Gallery in Eindhoven
- 1988–1993: Schadow-Arkaden in Düsseldorf
- 1992–1995: Königs-Galerie in Kassel
Fonts
- The city gallery. A contribution to the revitalization of the inner cities. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35479-9 .
- (with Rolf Junker, Holger Pump-Uhlmann) (Ed.): Attack on the City. Critical texts on the conception, planning and impact of integrated and non-integrated shopping centers in central locations. Droste, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-7700-1264-X .
- (with Holger Pump-Uhlmann) (Ed.): Centro Oberhausen - The shifted city center: An example of failed city planning Immobilien Zeitung, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-940219-09-1 .
- Factory Outlet Center - A New Attack on the City. Immobilien Zeitung, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-940219-24-4 .
- Stop the desolation of our cities with shopping and outlet centers outside the city limits. Immobilien Zeitung, Wiesbaden 2018, ISBN 978-3-940219-46-6
literature
- Holger Pump-Uhlmann: The extended living space: bungalows by Walter Brune. Jovis Verlag Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86859-009-8 .
- Holger Pump-Uhlmann (Ed.): From department store to city gallery - buildings for the trade by Walter Brune. Jovis Verlag Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86859-093-7 .
- Holger Pump-Uhlmann (Ed.): Working worlds - office and administrative buildings by Walter Brune. Immobilien Zeitung, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-940219-22-0 .
- Holger Pump-Uhlmann (ed.): Housing by Walter Brune. Immobilien Zeitung, Wiesbaden 2017, ISBN 978-3-940219-40-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chris Gerbing: Meet me at the Totem Pole - shopping malls of the 21st century or the realities of virtual worlds . In: Ulrich Gehmann (ed.): Virtual and ideal worlds . Karlsruhe Studies on the History of Technology, No. 8, KIT Scientific Publishing, Karlsruhe 2012, ISBN 978-3-86644-784-4 , p. 111 ( online )
- ↑ Dieter Schraven: Ruhrgebiet Killer Centro - an interview . Article (including interview with Walter Brune) from January 26, 2010 in the portal ruhrbarone.de , accessed on July 20, 2014
- ↑ René Schleucher: Walter Brune: 60 years of being an architect with body and soul . Article from January 11, 2012 in the portal wz-newsline.de , accessed on July 20, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brune, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, urban planner and real estate entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 14, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |