Konrad Wachsmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Konrad Wachsmann

German architect

Date of Birth: 16-May-1901

Place of Birth: Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Germany

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1980

Profession: architect

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Konrad Wachsmann

  • Konrad Wachsmann (May 16, 1901 in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany – November 25, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a German modernist architect.
  • He is notable for his contribution to the mass production of building components. Originally apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, Wachsmann studied at the arts-and-crafts schools of Berlin and Dresden and at the Berlin Academy of Arts (under the Expressionist architect Hans Poelzig).
  • During the late 1920s he was chief architect for a manufacturer of timber buildings.
  • He designed a summer house for Albert Einstein, one of his lifelong friends, in Caputh, Brandenburg.
  • He received the Prix de Rome from the German Academy in Rome in 1932. In 1938 he emigrated to Paris and in 1941 to the United States, where he began a collaboration with Walter Gropius and developed the "Packaged House System", a design for a house which could be constructed in less than nine hours.
  • Before the end of the Second World War he also developed a mobile aircraft hangar for the Atlas Aircraft Corporation.
  • He would later design aircraft hangars for the U.S.
  • Air Force in the 1960s. In 1943 he assisted the war effort by helping the US air-force construct the German Village (Dugway proving ground), a simulation of German working class dwellings to be used to perfect fire-bombing techniques on German residential areas. Wachsmann taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago from 1949 to 1964 and at the USC School of Architecture-SAFA at main campus at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles from 1964 to 1979.
  • He was the first recipient of the Neutra Medal for Professional Excellence in 1980.He is buried in his native Frankfurt an der Oder.

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