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Egon Eiermann

Egon Eiermann was one of Germany's most prominent architects in the second half of the 20th century. He was also a furniture designer. From 1947, he was Professor for architecture at Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe.

Biography
Eiermann was born in (now part of Babelsberg, Potsdam), the son of Wilhelm Eiermann (1874–1948), a locomotive engineer and his wife Emma Gellhorn (1875–1959). working there on developing steel frame construction methods. Students were Oswald Mathias Ungers and . During a study trip to the United States in 1950, he met Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Konrad Wachsmann in Boston and in 1956 also Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. ==Personal life==
Personal life
In 1940, he married in Berlin interior designer Charlotte, Friedheim (1912–2001) and in 1954 in Berlin architect Brigitte, née Feyerabendt (1924–2019). He had two children: with his first wife Andreas (born 1942), from his second marriage Anna (born 1956). He died in Baden-Baden, aged 65. He is buried at the Buchen Cemetery. ==Works==
Works
During the years of reconstruction, his steel-frame industrial buildings became exemplary. The buildings are transparent, inviting, democratic, making order visible. A functionalist, his major works include: the textile mill at Blumberg (1951); the West German pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair (with Sep Ruf, 1958); • 1929–1930 Substation of the Berliner Elektrizitätswerke AG, Berlin-Steglitz • 1931–1933 Hesse residential building, Berlin-Lankwitz • 1936–1937 Steingroever residential building, Berlin-Grunewald • 1938 factory building and boiler house of the Degea-AG-Auergesellschaft, Berlin-Wedding • 1938–1939 expansion and conversion of the Total-Werke Foerstner & Co, Apolda • 1939–1941 factory buildings of Märkische Metallbau GmbH, Oranienburg • 1948–1950 administration and factory building of Ciba AG, Wehr/Baden • 1949–1950 handkerchief weaving mill/spinning mill, Blumberg/Black Forest • 1950–1953 administration building of the United Silk Weaving Works, Krefeld • 1951–1956 experimental power plant of TU Karlsruhe • 1953 St. Matthew Church, Pforzheim • 1953–1954 Burda Moden publishing house, Offenburg • 1954–1961 residential building, Interbau, Hansaviertel, Berlin-Tiergarten • 1955–1957 Volkshilfe administration building, Cologne • 1956–1958 German Pavilion, World Exhibition in Brussels (with Sep Ruf, exterior planning by Walter Rossow) • 1956–1960 administration building of Steinkohlebergwerke AG, Essen • 1957–1963 Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin-Charlottenburg • 1958–1961 Head office of Neckermann Versand KG, Frankfurt am Main • 1958–1961 administration building of the steel structure Gustav Müller, Offenburg • 1958–1964 Chancellery building of the German Embassy, Washington • 1959–1962 Eiermann house, Baden-Baden • 1961–1967 buildings for the DEA-Scholven GmbH refinery, Karlsruhe • 1965–1969 high-rise building for members of the German Bundestag, Bonn • 1967–1972 Administration and training center of Deutsche Olivetti, Frankfurt am Main, • 1967–1972 IBM headquarters, Stuttgart-Vaihingen () Gallery File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-P060400, Berlin, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis Kirche und Kurfürstendamm.jpg|Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche File:Olivetti Buildings - Egon Eiermann.jpg|Olivetti Buildings in Frankfurt File:MiRO0.jpg|Office building of DEA oil refinery, Karlsruhe File:Langer Eugen, Bonn, June 2018.jpg|Langer Eugen, Bonn – detail of the facade Design From 1949, the first functional and serially produced seating furniture made of wood and tubular steel was created in cooperation with the Esslingen company . Source: • 1950 SE 68 tubular steel chair • 1952 E 10 wicker chair • 1952–1953 SE 18 wooden folding chair • 1953 table frame Eiermann 1 • 1960–1961 Church seat SE 121 • 1965 table frame Eiermann 2 ==Awards==
Awards
Source: In 2004, the Bundespost honored Eiermann with a special postage stamp. The is an international ideas competition in architecture. Memberships Source: • 1931 Member of the Association of German Architects () • 1931 Member of Deutscher Werkbund • 1951 Founding member of the German Design Council () • 1955 Member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin (West), Section Architecture • 1960 Honorary member of the Central Association of Austrian Architects • 1962 Member of the planning council for the new buildings of the German Bundestag and the German Bundesrat in Bonn • 1963 Corresponding Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of British Architects • 1969 Founding member of the Housing and Environment Institute of the Hessian state government ==Notes==
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