Walter Brune

Walter Brune ( born February 14, 1926 in Bremen ) is a German architect, urban planner and real estate entrepreneur. He takes for the development of retail architecture in Germany to an equally significant role, as did Victor Gruen in the U.S..

  • 3.1 buildings and projects (selection)
  • 3.2 fonts

Biography

Brune became self-employed after three years of practice in Gustav August Munzer as a young graduate engineer in 1950. He first worked for the heavy industry and built in the early 1950s already as a very young architect the coal mine Prosper Haniel as well as several power plants, winding towers, etc. In the late 1950s, the department store operator Karstadt became aware of him. For this group he established for 20 years department stores. The highlight was the planning and creation of the Karstadt headquarters in Essen. Numerous buildings for commerce, industry and administration for other companies also fell in this period.

For two decades, between 1950 and 1970, he developed in addition to the large-scale projects for numerous personalities from business and industry ( Helmut Horten, Wolf, Bauknecht, etc.) whose country houses bungalow style, which were presented worldwide in the architecture magazines due to their uniqueness.

Brune spoke of his time one of the busiest architectural firms in the former Federal Republic of Germany with satellite offices in New York, Tehran, Kabul, and in the Netherlands. The World Bank commissioned him in partnership with the renowned U.S. architect Marcel Breuer with the planning of extensive development projects. He created the planning of a new city on the Caspian Sea ( Namak abroud ) for the Shah of Persia.

As an entrepreneur

Earned money put Brune repeatedly in land to whose development he already carried out in the 1960s, parallel to his architectural office. The result was to this day an extensive real estate company.

Retail and town centers

Since the early 1980s, he worked in personal union as an architect, developer, consultant and operator of integrated urban shopping centers. He planned 1970, the shopping center Rhein Ruhr in Mülheim an der Ruhr. He then developed the concept of a city gallery, a form adapted to the urban block structures form a multifunctional scale retail architecture, which he transposed the first time at the K-Galerie in Dusseldorf. The city of Eindhoven commissioned to revive the then derelict city center it using the new Heuvel Gallery. Old existing building was here connected with new architecture.

He campaigned as a "city champion " for the preservation of vibrant downtown areas of cities and publications include 2006, the book attacking the City.

Awards, honors

Work

Buildings and projects (selection)

  • Residence Barbarahof, Dusseldorf, 1951
  • Franz Haniel mine, Bottrop, 1951-1955
  • House Horten, Dusseldorf, 1956
  • House in the vineyard, Alsace, 1958
  • Karstadt Bremerhaven, 1958
  • House Stoeckel, Ratingen -Breitscheid, 1959
  • Outils Wolf Garden Tools Factory, Wissembourg, 1959/1960
  • Dr. House Roeckerath, Dusseldorf, 1959-1961
  • House Dr. Berg, Dusseldorf, 1961
  • Karstadt department store, Celle, 1964-1965
  • Karstadt head office in Essen, 1965-1969
  • Strong house, Essen, 1967
  • Munster Park, Dusseldorf, 1970-1975
  • K-Galerie, Dusseldorf, 1983-1986
  • Tower of Time Kaiserwerth, 1986 ( together with Benno Werth )
  • Heuvel Gallery, Eindhoven, 1989-1992
  • Schadow -Arkaden, Dusseldorf, 1988-1993
  • King's Gallery, Kassel, 1992-1995

Writings

  • The City Gallery. A contribution to the revitalization of inner cities. Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1996, ISBN 3-593-35479-9.
  • ( with Rolf Junker, Holger pump Uhlmann ) (Ed. ): Attack on the City. Critical texts on the design, planning and operation of integrated and non-integrated shopping centers in central locations. Droste, Dusseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-7700-1264- X.
  • ( with Holger pump Uhlmann ) (Ed. ): Centro Oberhausen - the shifted center: An example of failed urban planning Immobilien Zeitung, Wiesbaden 200, ISBN 978-3-94021-909-1
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