Willibald Zeilhofer

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Residential complex at Dünzlpark Landshut (1975)
Landshut office building 1978
Evangelical Luth. Pauluskirche Ergolding (1990)
Zeilhofer's own house in Landshut (1964)
Residential complex on the Birkenberg in Landshut

Willibald Zeilhofer (* 5. June 1935 in Landshut ) is a German architect who has made a name for contemporary architecture, especially in Bavaria. He is a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA), whose district association of Lower Bavaria / Upper Palatinate he headed from 1980–1987. He often acts as a judge in architectural competitions.

Life

Zeilhofer was born in Landshut in 1935. He studied at the Oskar von Miller Polytechnic in Munich from 1954 to 1957 and completed his architectural studies with a diploma (Dipl.-Ing. FH). After working in the architectural office of Hans Maurer in Munich, he started his own business in Munich at the age of 25. In 1965 he opened an office in Landshut.

In his work he initially felt obliged to classical modernism . Several of his single-family houses have been published internationally since the 1960s, including his own house in Landshut, which was published in detail in the trade journal "Bauen + Wohnen" and compared internationally - including works by the American architect Craig Ellwood , the Willi Zeilhofer met years later in Italy and with whom he had a long friendship.

In 1969 Zeilhofer was appointed to the Association of German Architects (BDA), to which he was committed for many years. From 1980–1987 he was chairman of the BDA district association Niederbayern-Oberpfalz and from 1987 to 2000 a board member of BDA Bavaria.

In addition to public buildings, his work focused on single-family houses and residential construction - u. a. the Landshut housing estate Dünzl – Park am Hofberg (1975) and am Birkenberg (1975). The latter received recognition at the BDA Prize in 1977. Both systems are made of exposed concrete and were controversial at the time they were built because of their radical nature.

Many of his buildings are the result of successful architectural competitions. a. the office building in Landshut (1988) or the Evangelical Lutheran Pauluskirche in Ergolding (1990). In addition to his architectural works, Zeilhofer was also active as a designer.

From September 27 to October 20, 2013, his life's work was honored with an exhibition organized by the BDA in Landshut's town hall. The exhibition will also be shown from April 9, 2014 to May 23, 2014 in the Bavarian Chamber of Architects in Munich.

Zeilhofer's residential complexes are also part of the exhibition "Apartments, Apartments, Apartments - 100 Years of Housing in Bavaria 1908-2018", which was shown from March 14 to May 13, 2018 in the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne and in 2018 as a traveling exhibition through several Bavarian cities tours.

Willibald Zeilhofer lives in Landshut, is married and has three children, two daughters and a son.

Buildings (selection)

  • 1961: Rorerstraße residential building in Landshut
  • 1962: House Am Schallermoos in Landshut
  • 1964: Own house with office in Landshut
  • 1972: Am Schallermoos residential building in Landshut
  • 1973: Residential house in Weinzierlstrasse in Landshut-Hofberg
  • 1974: angular house in Obergolding near Landshut
  • 1975: Housing complex at Dünzl-Park in Landshut
  • 1976: Housing complex on Birkenberg near Landshut
  • 1979: Social and parish center in Mühldorf am Inn
  • 1982: House on Schulgasse in Ergolding near Landshut
  • 1977: House with indoor swimming pool in Obergolding near Landshut
  • 1982: House on Schulgasse in Ergolding near Landshut
  • 1988: Office building in Landshut
  • 1990: Pauluskirche in Ergolding

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Modern Bavaria. In: the architect. September 25, 2013, accessed October 24, 2013 .
  2. ↑ TV report "Capriccio" BR Kulturmagazin September 19, 2013 ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g BDA Architecture Guide Bavaria
  4. ↑ a b Wolfram Theil: The house in which we live. Alexander Koch Verlag, Darmstadt 1978.
  5. ↑ A. Mütsch Angel: Living under sloping roof. Alexander Koch Verlag, Darmstadt 1982.
  6. ^ A b G. Heene: Architectural construction. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1983.
  7. ↑ Walter Meyer-Bohe: group homes. Alexander Koch Verlag, Darmstadt 1979.
  8. ↑ Hübner, Braun: Protestant church building since 1945. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Zeilhofer, Willibald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeilhofer, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Landshut