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Horst Eduard Linde

* Born April 6, 1912 in Heidelberg, died September 10, 2016; German architect, urban planner, university lecturer; worked in Freiburg i.Br. and Stuttgart

Linde studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe until 1936 as a student of Otto Ernst Schweizer.
He initially worked in Emmendingen and Baden-Baden and, in 1939, as a government architect (assessor) and municipal building councillor in Lahr. After the war, he returned from captivity in 1946 and founded the building office for the largely destroyed Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1947. He worked there together with Auguste Perret, who was delegated by the French occupying forces. In 1948, Linde won the architectural competition for the reconstruction of Kaiserstraße and the city center in Karlsruhe, as well as in 1953 for the reconstruction of the city church there.
From 1951, Linde was head of the state building administration of the federal state of Baden in Freiburg im Breisgau, and from 1957 head of the building construction department in the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Finance.
He became a member of the Academy of Arts in 1955 (initially the Academy of Arts in Berlin (West)).
In 1960, he became Professor of Urban Planning at the Technical University of Stuttgart and moved to the newly founded Chair of University Planning in 1961. Until his retirement from the state building administration in 1971 and his retirement in 1976/1977, he built many public buildings, including hospitals, schools, administrative buildings, housing estates and also - parallel to his public employment as a freelance architect - churches.

In 1953, Linde was a member of the jury for the competition for the Mannheim National Theater and was a supporter of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's design; he subsequently took part in the so-called Bauhaus controversy.
Although Mies' influence can also be felt in Linde's architecture (e.g. in the Stuttgart state parliament building), his style is partly based on Brutalism.

In the reconstructed buildings, Linde has carefully combined the heritage of past centuries with the vision of modernism. He used modern materials in a sculptural and sometimes even picturesque manner (e.g. spiral staircases) and collaborated with artists and craftsmen in the interior design. As a representative of post-war modernism, he does not take a dogmatic view of the rules of thumb of modernism.

According to him in 2012, his architecture was always intended to be functional, which corresponded to the spirit of the time; he rejects the self-perpetuation of the architect through his work as the goal of architecture.

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The special master builder - On the 100th birthday of Horst Linde

Badische Zeitung www.badische-zeitung.de/freiburg/der-besondere-baumeister

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