Gustav Adolf Platz

Gustav Adolf Square ( born November 21, 1881 in Kraków, † September 13, 1947 in Mannheim, Germany ) was a German architect.

Career

From 1909, he worked with Fritz Schumacher in Hamburg. In 1913 he entered the construction administration of the city of Mannheim, where until 1932 he worked as Director of Town Planning in 1923. In addition to his architectural work, he wrote several books on contemporary and modern architecture. From 1932 course was working as a freelance architect in Berlin, before he in 1942 returned to Mannheim in the municipal building administration.

Authorship

In 1927 appeared - as remarkably timely supplement to the prestigious " Propylaea art history " - an extensive band " The architecture of modern times ". These were the first attempt of an architectural history overall presentation of modernity - from its predecessors in the engineers of the late 19th century to the recent manifestations of the " new architecture" in Germany.

Due to the great interest in the recent architecture of the band found such a proliferation that soon a new edition of 5,000 copies was again necessary. Court took the opportunity of an extensive makeover of his work by now the architecture outside the German language area einbezog, especially those in France and the Netherlands. He was also able to trace the course of development of modernity based in the meantime completed buildings - from Stuttgart Weißenhofsiedlung about the Berlin Housing to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion. He also offered a critical examination of radical views (Le Corbusier ), which he described as stimulating experiments, although welcomed, but as constricting dogma rejected. As a contemporary epoch balance the second edition of " The architecture of modern times " (1930 ) has strongly affected the modern architecture history at home and abroad.