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Otto Ernst Schweizer, Kollegienebaude II, Universitat Freiburg (German, Hardcover)
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Otto Ernst Schweizer, Kollegienebaude II, Universitat Freiburg (German, Hardcover)
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Text in English & German. With the Kollegiengebaude II (college
building II) of the University of Freiburg dedicated in 1961 the
architect Otto Ernst Schweizer had achieved a masterpiece. Being
built in the modern design idiom, it nevertheless took Freiburg's
tradition into account and gave a new quality of life to the
university and the urban development of the inner city quarters. On
the whole it was a significant stimulus to university construction.
Thanks to the neutral expression of the building, its compact
overall for m and its "elastic structural system" (there is maximum
flexibility in room layout without touching the bearing skeleton),
and together with the laconically simple floor plan it became a
prototype solution for smooth functioning. It is an open
architecture, free of any suffocating pathos, with wide open
spaces, human scale in size and proportions and in ideal accordance
with academic freedom for research, instruction and learning.
Schweizer, born in 1890 and deceased in 1965, professor of urban
construction at the Technical University of Karlsruhe is one of the
ground-breaking architects of the 20th century. In the late 1920s
he gained international renognition and relevance with his
buildings in Nuremburg, among them the stadium grounds and the
Milchhof, as well as the Prater-Stadion in Vienna. During the
1930s, when he was not allowed to build, he studied fundamental
questions of architecture and urbanism. After the Second World War
he used his insights to make recommendations for the reconstruction
of destroyed cities like Giessen, Karlsruhe, Mannheim or Stuttgart.
In his last project, the Kollegiengebaude II we find the
quintessence of a rich creative life, convincingly demonstrating
Schweizer's high demands on architectural form and function. Immo
Boyken is professor emeritus of building history and theory of
architecture in Konstanz. His special interest is the architecture
of the late 19th and the 20th century. He was a principal
contributor to the monograph on Egon Eiermann, author ed the
monograph on Otto Ernst Schweizer and lately wrote about Heinz
Tesar's church in the Donau City in Vienna (Opus 42), the
chancellery of the German embassy in Washington by Egon Eiermann
(Opus 54), the Milchhof in Nuremburg by Otto Ernst Schweizer (Opus
59), the Prater-Stadion in Vienna (Opus 75) also by Schweizer, and
the German Pavilions at the World Exhibition 1958 in Brussels by
Sep Ruf and Egon Eiermann (Opus 62).
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