Walter March

Walter March (born August 26, 1898 in Charlottenburg ; † August 23, 1969 ) was a German architect , son of the architect Otto March and the younger brother of the architect Werner March .

In 1923 March was involved in the construction of the model house Am Horn with Adolf Meyer .

Together with his brother Werner March, he won the competition with their design for the German Sports Forum in 1927 . The buildings of the swimming pool and the sports hall, which are adjacent to the longitudinal axis of the sports field and opposite one another, were planned by Walter March and the reception building ( Hall of Nations ) was supervised.

In 1933 the brothers Werner and Walter March created the first draft for the Reichssportfeld , worth mentioning is the joint supervision of the Reichsfeld until 1934 and the subsequent overall management by Werner March with the participation of his brother Walter.

The draft for the Speisehaus der Nations ( Berlin House ) in the Olympic Village in Dallgow-Döberitz (1934–1936) was completed in 1936 under the artistic direction of his brother Werner. Another joint effort by the brothers Werner and Walter March was the equestrian stadium in the Olympic Park in 1936.

literature

Adolf Meyer: An experimental house of the Bauhaus in Weimar. (= Bauhaus books , Volume 3) Albert Langen, Munich 1924. (Typography by Adolf Meyer)
Walter March: The Olympic Village near Berlin. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 56th year 1936, pp. 721–733.