Wolfgang Geisler (architect)

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Wolfgang Geisler (born April 22, 1930 in Zschepen ) is a German architect and university professor . He worked at the engineering school for construction and the college for construction in Leipzig , at the college for architecture and construction in Weimar and at the college for industrial design in Halle on the castle Giebichenstein . Today he lives in Delitzsch .

Live and act

Geisler was born the son of a factory worker in Zschepen, where he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1945 to 1947 . From 1947/48 to 1950/51 he studied structural engineering for three years at the Leipzig School of Civil Engineering . From 1951 to 1956 and from 1960 to 1961 he worked as a design architect at VEB Hochbauprojektierung Leipzig.

From 1956 to 1960 he was a research assistant at the University of Architecture and Construction in Weimar, where he also completed an external course of study and graduated as a Dipl.-Ing. reached. From 1961 to 1967 he was a research assistant at the Leipzig University of Civil Engineering , where he was awarded a Dr. Ing. PhD was. From 1967 to 1971 he was the head of the project planning office of the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education at this university.

In 1971 he moved to the University of Industrial Design in Halle , at the Giebichenstein Castle , and lectured there in the areas of residential and social building, work environment and interior design. In 1979 he was appointed professor. He was responsible for teaching content, structural policy, building activities and research at the University of Industrial Design, and from 1990 he was responsible for developing the interior design course . In 1996 he retired .

Research and teaching buildings

Geisler worked in university construction, a. a. 1951 to 1960 - together with Wolfgang Scheibe (1928–2006) and Heinz Rauschenbach - on the construction of the Leipzig University Institute for Hygiene, Anatomy, Physics, Physiology and the student dormitory of the University of Leipzig on Nürnberger Straße. From 1967 to 1972 he built the lecture hall complex for the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg based on his designs . He also made urban planning studies at the universities in Magdeburg, Leipzig and Merseburg.

  • Lecture hall of the Anatomical Institute of the University of Leipzig (2007)

  • Main building of the University of Merseburg (2014)

  • Magdeburg University of Applied Sciences (2012)

Publications

  • Basic features of a method for determining the functional order of apartments. Shown on individual living spaces for parents and children. A contribution to the determination of utility values ​​in residential construction. Dissertation dated June 9, 1967 (university thesis ), Hochschule für Bauwesen, Leipzig 1967, OCLC 74067119 .
  • Construction in the Leipzig district. In: German architecture. No. 9, 1969, p. 562ff.
  • For the training of work environment designers. In: Contributions to the work environment design of the AiF. No. 4, 1986, pp. 45-71.
  • with Jochen Ziska (Ed .: Association of Visual Artists of the German Democratic Republic): Partner for practice: for the training of work environment designers at the University of Industrial Design in Halle, Burg Giebichenstein . Fine Arts, 1984, OCLC 888549696 , p. 206-207 .

literature

  • Angela Dolgner: Wolfgang Geisler. In: Dietrich Fürst: From building artist to complex project developer: Architects in the GDR: Documentation of an IRS collection of biographical data . Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Berlin 2000, OCLC 237432293 , p. 83 f .
  • University of Industrial Design Halle - Burg Giebichenstein (Hrsg.): Architecture. Wolfgang Geisler. Exhibition catalog. Hall 1981.
  • Joachim Schulz, Wolfgang Müller, Erwin Schrödl: Architectural Guide GDR, Leipzig District . VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1976, OCLC 874871110 .
  • Volker Frank: Geisler, Wolfgang . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 51, Saur, Munich a. a. 2006, ISBN 3-598-22791-4 , p. 118.
  • Wolfgang Hocquél : Leipzig. Architecture from the Romanesque to the present . Passage-Verlag, Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-932900-54-5 , p. 259 f .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joachim Schulz, Wolfgang Müller, Erwin Schrödl: Architectural Guide GDR, Leipzig District. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin, 1976: No. 65 student dormitory , No. 66 Anatomical Institute of SMEs. No. 68 a for Physiology of SMEs. No. 69 Physics Institute of SMEs. P. 11.
  2. ↑ Literature by and about Wolfgang Geisler in the catalog of the German National Library
personal data
SURNAME Geisler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Zschepen