Werner Durth

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Werner Durth (born May 17, 1949 in Mengeringhausen ) is a German architect , sociologist , architectural historian and university professor , until 2014 he was a full professor for the history and theory of architecture (GTA) at the architecture faculty of the Technical University of Darmstadt . He is a younger brother of Walter Durth .

Life

Durth studied architecture and urban planning at the then TH Darmstadt as well as sociology and philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Since 1970 scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation, 1973 graduate engineer, he received his doctorate in 1976 with the urban planner Thomas Sieverts and the sociologist Manfred Teschner . He was co-editor of the magazines ARCH + and Stadtbauwelt . 1976–1981 lecturer for urban studies and urban sociology at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Bremen and at the University of Hanover , from 1978–1981 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Sociology at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1981 Durth became professor for environmental design in the visual arts department at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. In 1993 he moved to the Institute for Fundamentals of Modern Architecture (IGMA) at the University of Stuttgart as professor and director , succeeding Jürgen Joedicke . In 1998 he was appointed to the newly established Department of History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

In his research, Durth deals with the continuities and discontinuities of modern architecture and urban development, with a focus on developments during the Nazi era and the reconstruction phase of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Soviet Occupation Zone / GDR in an international comparison.

Werner Durth has received numerous awards for his work, including the Schelling Architecture Prize for Architectural Historiography in 1992, the Fritz Schumacher Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2004, an honorary doctorate from the National Polytechnic University of Lviv (Lemberg), Ukraine in 2005, and the German Architect's Prize for Literature - und Ingenieurverband (DAI) 2019. He is a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning , the Saxon Academy of the Arts in Dresden and the Academy of the Arts in Berlin, for whose new building at Pariser Platz he also provided the design together with Günter Behnisch . Durth is an honorary member of the Association of German Architects and is active in numerous committees, including the selection committee for the Venice Architecture Biennale , the Federal Foundation for Building Culture and the Expert Council on the Future of International Building Exhibitions, and continues to act as an expert and judge.

Fonts (selection)

  • On the social function of criticism and theory of urban design. Dissertation, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1976.
  • The staging of the everyday world. On the criticism of urban design. (= Bauwelt-Fundamente. ) Braunschweig 1977, 2nd edition 1988.
  • German architects. Biographical entanglements 1900–1970. (= Writings of the German Architecture Museum on the history of architecture and architectural theory ) Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1986. (5th edition: Stuttgart / Zurich 2001.)
  • (with Niels Gutschow ): Architecture and urban planning of the fifties. (= Series of publications of the German National Committee for Monument Protection , Volume 33.) Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-922153-04-6
  • Urbanity and urban planning. Theses on a problematic relationship. In: W. Prigge (Ed.): The materiality of the urban. Urban development and urbanity in social upheaval. (= Stadtforschung aktuell , Volume 17.) Basel / Boston 1987.
  • (with Niels Gutschow): Dreams in ruins. Plans for the reconstruction of destroyed cities in western Germany 1940-1950. (Volume I: Concepts , Volume II: Cities ) (= Writings of the German Architecture Museum on the history of architecture and architectural theory. ) Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1988.
  • (with Niels Gutschow): From architectural space to urban landscape. Changes in urban development models under the impact of the aerial warfare 1940–1945. In: A. Schildt, A. Sywottek (Ed.): Mass housing and own home. Frankfurt am Main / New York 1988.
  • City as a cultural space. The design of cities as a future task. In: Karl Ganser, J. Hesse, Christoph Zöpel (eds.): The future of cities. Baden-Baden 1991.
  • (with Klaus von Beyme, Niels Gutschow, Winfried Nerdinger and Thomas Topfstedt as editors): New cities from ruins. German post-war urban development. Munich 1992.
  • (with Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow): Architecture and urban development in the GDR. (Volume 1: Ostkreuz. People - Plans - Perspectives , Volume 2: Structure. Cities - Topics - Documents. ) 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main / New York 1998. / 2nd expanded edition 1999.
  • Berlin - Pariser Platz: New building for the Academy of Arts , Werner Durth, Günter Behnisch , published by the Academy of Arts. (Translated into English by Lucinda Rennison, translated from Hungarian by Hans-Henning Paetzke). Jovis, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-936314-36-6 .
  • (as editor): Monsters and Other Truths. Picture stories by Karla Kowalski. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-936314-62-5 .
  • (with Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow): Architecture and urban development in the GDR. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939633-29-7 .
  • Rading meets Schlemmer. Construction house art. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3863356675 .
  • (with Paul Sigel): Baukultur. Mirror of social change. Jovis Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86859-010-4 . 3rd edition as a study edition in three volumes 2016, ISBN 978-3868594270 .
  • (with Wolfgang Pehnt and Sandra Wagner-Conzelmann): Otto Bartning. Architect of a Social Modernism. Exhibition catalog. Justus von Liebig Verlag, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-87390-393-7 and Academy of the Arts, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-88331-220-0

literature

  • On Werner Durth's writings “German Architects” from 1986 and “Architecture and Urban Development of the Fifties” from 1987 and 1990 . In: Roman Hillmann: The first post-war modernity. Aesthetics and perception of West German architecture 1945–1963. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, pp. 50–53.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Members of the Saxon Academy of the Arts, Dresden, class architecture. Retrieved October 1, 2020 .