Wilfried Beck-Erlang

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Wilfried Beck-Erlang (born February 24, 1924 in Erlangen ; † April 25, 2002 in Stuttgart ; civil: Wilfried Max Beck ) was a German architect .

Life

Wilfried Max Beck was born in Erlangen in 1924 and grew up in Reutlingen . After graduating from high school (1943), he first began studying aeronautical engineering at the Technical University of Stuttgart . After the end of the war (1945) he enrolled in architecture and in 1949 passed his main diploma examination with Richard Döcker .

After a few rapidly changing positions in the Stuttgart offices of Richard Döcker (1950) and Martin Elsaesser (1950) and Heinrich Lauterbach (1950) and Paul Bode (1950–1951) in Kassel, he signed a contract with Rheinische Wohnstätten AG at the end of 1951 self-employed in Duisburg. Shortly afterwards, he moved back to Reutlingen to build the “Friedrich List” Parkhotel (1952–1953), where he founded his first office. From around 1954 he used his stage name by adding the geonym Erlang to his surname.

In 1956 he moved to Stuttgart, where he built most of his buildings - not least his own residential and office building (1964–1966), which is now the free art school and advertising agency P.ART . Together with other architects, he initiated the traveling exhibition "Heimat, Your Homes" (1963–1965) and shortly thereafter the visionary project “Stuttgart 2000” (1965–1982), which was the forerunner or trigger of the Stuttgart 21st infrastructure project, particularly with regard to traffic planning of Deutsche Bahn AG can be viewed.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Beck-Erlang was a member of the Baden-Württemberg state board of the Association of German Architects (BDA) . In 1982 he and others founded the Architecture Gallery at Weißenhof and in 1988 the Architecture Forum Baden-Württemberg . He died in 2002.

buildings

Facade of the St. Konrad retirement home in Kressbronn (1956–1959)
Beck-Erlang residential and office building in Stuttgart (1964–1966)
Beck-Erlang residential and office building in Stuttgart (1964–1966)
Dome of the planetarium in Stuttgart (1970–1977)
Market triangle in Waiblingen (1971–1976)
  • 1952–1953: Parkhotel “Friedrich List” in Reutlingen
  • 1953–1956: Church of St. Bonifatius in Metzingen
  • 1954–1956: Marienheim girls' dormitory in Reutlingen
  • 1954–1957: Preller residence in Kelkheim-Eppenhain
  • 1955–1957: Raach house and studio in Reutlingen
  • 1956–1957: Wagner residence in Reutlingen
  • 1956–1961: Church of St. Augustine and community center in Esslingen-Zollberg
  • 1956–1959: St. Konrad retirement home in Kressbronn
  • 1958–1962: To the Good Shepherd in Friedrichshafen-Löwenthal
  • 1958–1961: Eisenlohr / Hiesel twin house in Reutlingen
  • 1958–1962: Hornung house in Reutlingen
  • 1959–1965: Stadttheater (today's opera house ) in Bonn
  • 1960–1964: St. Petrus Canisius Kindergarten in Friedrichshafen
  • 1961–1969: St. Andreas church and community center in Reutlingen- Orschel-Hagen
  • 1962–1966: Administration building in Zurich-Vita-Haus in Stuttgart
  • 1964–1966: Beck-Erlang residential and office building in Stuttgart
  • 1964: Open-air church on the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart
  • 1966–1971: Kimmerle house in Reutlingen
  • 1966–1980: St. Anna community center in Sindelfingen-Maichingen
  • 1966–1973: St. Vinzenz residential complex in Wangen (Allgäu)
  • 1967–1972: Church of St. Maria and community center in Aalen
  • 1968–1976: Neckartor , State Gallery and University subway stations (today: Börsenplatz ) in Stuttgart
  • 1969–1972: Herma paper goods factory in Deizisau
  • 1969–1980: TuS sports center in Stuttgart-Degerloch
  • 1970–1975: School center in Stuttgart-Freiberg
  • 1970–1977: Stuttgart Planetarium
  • 1971–1976: Market triangle in Waiblingen
  • 1971–1978: Herma paper goods factory in Filderstadt-Bonlanden
  • 1975–1980: Jud residence in Waiblingen-Neustadt
  • 1975–1980: Mayer-Vorfelder residential building in Stuttgart
  • 1978–1981: VfB Club Center in Stuttgart
  • 1980–1994: Mineral bath, hotel and residential complex in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
  • 1982–1984: Mannheim Planetarium
  • 1985–1990: TWS training center in Stuttgart

estate

His extensive work archive is in the Southwest German Archive for Architecture and Civil Engineering .

literature

  • Wilfried Beck-Erlang (Ed.): 25 years of Beck-Erlang architects in Stuttgart. Self-published, Stuttgart 1977.
  • Edeltrud Geiger-Schmidt: The Beck-Erlang house in Stuttgart. In: Preservation of monuments in Baden-Württemberg , 39th year 2010, issue 3, p. 188 f. ( Digitized version )
  • Gisela Schultz, Frank Werner (ed.): Beck-Erlang. Gerd Hatje Verlag, Stuttgart 1983.
  • Carsten Wiertlewski: Beck-Erlang. The work of the architect Wilfried Max Beck. Dissertation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , Karlsruhe 2012. ( Download from the KIT website )

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Beck-Erlang, Wilfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck, Wilfried Max (real full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2002
Place of death Stuttgart