Background

Christoph Hackelsberger was born on September 12, 1931 in Freiburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, into the family of Albert and Helene (van Eyck) Hackelsberger.

Education

Christoph Hackelsberger received a Doctor of Engineering at the Technical University of Munich in 1979.

Career

From 1960 Christoph Hackelsberger was self-employed as a freelance architect, while his fields of activity were industrial construction, social housing for children, the elderly and the disabled, "new building in old surroundings", and restoration of historical buildings.

He lived in Munich. In numerous book publications and lectures he dealt critically with all phenomena of building. He wrote architectural reviews for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Welt am Sonntag for over three decades, as well as articles on building and building policy in various specialist journals. In 1992 he became an honorary professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

He dealt extensively with the architecture of purpose and military buildings, such as the Atlantic Wall, the Fortress Franzensfeste, the airport, bridges and subway stations in Munich, for example, and the concrete building material used there. Hackelsberger was an outspoken critic of the free state preservation of monuments. Many buildings of the 1950s, he said the divided "deferred modernity" from the quality.

His description of the architecture of Detlef Schreibers, an heir of Mies van der Rohe, published in 2006, also deals with many of Hackeler's favorite topics. A modern purpose and housing occupied him, not stone by stone building, but the possibility of typified, modular and prefabricated construction and the associated engineering fundamentals, as well as the intense involvement with his hometown of Munich, their urban development and city skyline.

Achievements

• Christoph Hackelsberger was highly famous as the author of book "Subway Architecture in Munich", "Ein Architekt sieht Muenchen", "Muenchen und seine Isarbruecken", and "Zeit im Aufriss."

Works

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  • Architektur eines labilen Jahrhunderts: Kritische Beiträge aus zwei Jahrzehnten 1991
  • Zweitausendzwölf: Eigensinniges zu Architektur und Gesellschaft um die Jahrtausendwende 1986
  • Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Architekten Schweger und Partner 1994
  • Ein Architekt sieht München 1981
  • Subway Architecture in Munich 1997
  • Beton: Stein der Weisen? 200
  • Munich Airport Terminal 2 2000

Membership

Christoph was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Connections

Christoph married an editor Min-Mi H. Liang, with whom he had two children: Nina H. and Roman.

Father:

Albert Hackelsberger

Mother:

Helene (van Eyck) Hackelsberger

Spouse:

Min- Mi H. Liang

Daughter:

Nina H. Hackelsberger

Son:

Roman Hackelsberger