Richard Konwiarz
Richard Konwiarz (born 15 February 1883 in Czempin, Posen Province, † December 14, 1960 in Hannover ) was a German architect and urban construction officer, Mr, which attracted attention in particular to the planned by him sporting venues. Together with Heinz Goes man he designed the early 1950s, the plans for the stadium in Hanover, Lower Saxony.
Life
Richard Konwiarz studied at the Dresden Academy of Art with Paul Wallot and gained his first professional experience in the architectural offices Lossow and Kuehne (Dresden) and Pfleghard and Haefeli in Zurich. 1909 brought him city architect Max Berg to Wroclaw. Until 1945, he worked in managerial positions in the city administration. He worked among other things, the construction of Centennial Hall, whose expansion he oversaw after the departure of the mountain. As municipal building officer realized Konwiarz numerous municipal construction projects: a crematorium, cemetery buildings, hospital buildings, the Hall States in the Forum of the square in front of the Centennial Hall, traffic and structures of factories, gymnasiums and public parks. After the First World War, the mass sports flourished, and the early 1920s, the city of Breslau grew by incorporations to five times the area. Konwiarz planned for each district in particular games, sports and swimming facilities as well as the so-called Olympic Stadium as the central scale plant. Konwiarz been a member of the Deutscher Werkbund, and in the covenant of Homeland Security, he volunteered with the day on Monuments and took up a teaching position in 1933 at the Institute of Physical Education at the University of Breslau.
In 1945 he returned to Dresden and worked in the city government in the reconstruction of the city. In 1947 he took over the chair of urban planning at the Technical University of Dresden. He also took over the management of the higher education structure. In the spring of 1949, he put a construction program before, in 1950 a regional development plan in order to take into account the growth of the College of urban planning. In 1950 he became Professor Emeritus and moved to Hanover. There he took on consulting activities in sports and designed with Heinz Goessmann plans for the Niedersachsen Stadion.
His son Hans Konwiarz was also an architect.
Awards
Work
Buildings and designs
Olympic Stadium Wroclaw (Draft 1924-1927 )
Remnants of the former memorial to the fallen Wroclaw SA men in East Park, Wroclaw Tschansch (draft 1935)
Bunker in Wroclaw, pl. Strzegomski (draft 1941)
Team's formation before the original grandstand construction of the Lower Saxony Stadium (1963 )
Writings
- Alt- Silesia. Architecture, space art, arts and crafts. In 1913.
- ( as editor ): The architecture of Wroclaw. An architectural guide. Breslau 1926.