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Peter Kulka, Opus 55 - Bosch-Haus Heidehof, Stuttgart (German, English, Hardcover)
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Peter Kulka, Opus 55 - Bosch-Haus Heidehof, Stuttgart (German, English, Hardcover)
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Text in English and German. Early in the 20th century, Robert
Bosch, the founder of the Stuttgart electrical business, built a
large villa on the hills east of the city. It was half Palladian,
half in the reform style of the period before the First World War.
The building was to meet the head of the company's need for
prestige, and to provide a private refuge thanks to the pleasant
qualities of its large park and open position. The foundation of
the same name is now housed in the Villa Bosch, but the space
available has not been adequate for some time. As the company also
needed rooms for seminars and other events, a decision was taken to
build new accommodation next to the villa. Seven well-known teams
took part in a restricted competition, including Tadao Ando,
Richard Meier and Richard Rogers. The commission went to Peter
Kulka, based in Cologne and Dresden. He found a convincing solution
to the problem of leaving the dominance of the old building
untouched and at the same time making the foundation's new
accommodation attractive in its own right. He came up with a second
'villa' slightly below the first one, precise in its volume and
minimalist in its resources. The building responds impressively to
the challenges of the topography, the landscape around it and its
neighbouring building. Kulka's work combines transparency with
physical presence, structural austerity with poetry. This villa
suburbana represents a milestone in his career. Kulka, born in
1937, was a pupil of Selman Selmanagic and worked with Hermann
Henselmann, Hans Scharoun and in various partnerships before
setting up his own practice in 1979. He has been seen as a member
of the German architectural avant-garde since his Dresden
parliament building (1991-94).
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