Prof. Ernst Neufert
Prof. Ernst Neufert
Architect, 1900 – 1986
At the age of 19, he studied at Bauhaus in Weimar and worked in the office of Walter Gropius. In 1924, he took over the job as office manager and construction manager at the new Bauhaus and Masters' Houses in Dessau. Icons of the modern age. But Neufert sought new challenges and at the age of 26 accepted a professorship at Bauhochschule in Weimar. After it was closed in 1930, he taught architecture at Itten School in Berlin and worked as a freelance architect.
He later said about the training at Bauhaus:
„Here I recognised for the first time how a building programme [...] resulted from an inner ideal without models, without reference to a style epoch, but only from the attitude to life of our time.
Since then I have known that this is the only true reflection for us, not an absolute one, because there is no such reflection in art, but rather one [...] felt out of the living spirit of the times, with full respect and consideration for everything that had been created before in the strong, genuine cultural epochs, but completely devoted to the urgent tasks of our own time, formally bound to past styles only in so far as own do not impose themselves [...]. (Ernst Neufert in Fritz Gotthelf, Ernst Neufert. An architect of our time, Berlin 1960, p. 7)
Curiosity and a spirit of discovery led Ernst Neufert to architecture at an early age. He is a mastermind in standardization, an architect of large industrial buildings and private homes, and at the same time designs furniture and dedicates himself to teaching.
1927, Weimar
1931, Berlin
1955, Darmstadt
Ernst Neufert's work was diverse. His work as a designing and building architect extends beyond 100 designs of the most diverse building typologies.
Abbeanum, Jena 1928Photo: Noshe
Schott factory, Mainz, 1951 Photo: Noshe
Service area Pfungstadt, 1951 Photo: Carl Rübartsch
Quelle Mail order company, Nuremberg, 1954 Photo: Carl Rübartsch
Cement plant Dyckerhoff, 1955 Photo: Carl Rübartsch
Planstatt, Darmstadt, 1956 Foto: Noshe
Neon sign „U“ Dortmund , 1968
Ernst Neufert in Darmstadt 50s
In 1936 he developed the book Bauentwurfslehre, which has been continued to this day and is regarded as a standard work in architectural literature. In the course of his life, the advancement of standardisation in the building industry was always a major concern for him.
Through his teaching at Technical University of Darmstadt, Ernst Neufert influenced several generations of architects in their training and attitude.
To this day, Ernst Neufert's Bauentwurfslehre , in countless new editions and translations, is a much used standard manual for designing architects worldwide.
First edition 1936
Vita
Ernst Neufert belongs to the generation of architects who, in the developmental years of the first half of the 20th century and after two wars, have the task of creating new intellectual foundations as an ordering element for the design of the environment and giving form and shape to these new insights.Complete curriculum vitae Prof. Ernst Neufert
Important buildings
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