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Although he won the competition to execute the gigantic glass dome for the new main station in Munich, he soon became disenchanted with Hitler's requiring the dome and critical of the entire design. This led him to leave Germany for Turkey in 1943. He was a faculty member at the
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in 1927. For the autobahns, he oversaw all bridge design and himself designed many of the innumerable small bridges required. In the 1920s he was responsible for ten dams on the Neckar; he used different construction materials to reflect the local geology.
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in Munich and said so, a political mistake. In February 1935 he gave a speech inveighing against architecture which made "the act of representing an end in itself" rather than form coinciding with function in which he called
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Frank, Hartmut (1990). "Bridges: Paul Bonatz's Search for a Contemporary Monumental Style". In Taylor, Brandon; van der Will, Wilfried (eds.).
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In 1902 he married Helene Fröhlich (1879–1965); their daughter Susanne, born in 1906, married the architect Kurt Dübbers. His younger brother,
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school's approval of the Stuttgart station as "a modern technical building in the best sense of the word." However, his
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The government tried to make good use of Bonatz's talents and name, but found him politically unreliable. He disliked
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Frank, p. 157: "If I had to name a single reason for my emigration, it would have to be the escape from this madness."
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during part of World War II, and from 1954 until his death. He worked in many styles, but most often in a simplified
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Bonatz believed passionately in form expressing function, but opposed the modernist tradition exemplified by
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In 1958/59, the city of Stuttgart instituted the Paul Bonatz Prize for architectural services in his memory.
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he coupled a reinforced concrete water tower with offices on the lower floor with a hipped-roof town hall.
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Stoilova, Ljubinka (2007). "Bulgarische Architektur in der Zwischenkriegszeit". In Stiller, Adolph (ed.).
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Among his technical buildings, he built bridges from the start of his career, beginning at
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The Nazification of Art: Art, Design, Music, Architecture and Film in the Third Reich
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Mythos Reichsautobahn: Bau und Inszenierung der "Straßen des Führers" 1933–1941
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The Word in Stone: The Role of Architecture in the National Socialist Ideology
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In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II
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from 1946 to 1954 and oversaw renovation of the university's
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Haus Goldschmidt commercial and residential building in
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Stummhaus office building in Düsseldorf (1922–1925)
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Solgne
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German Empire
Stuttgart
West Germany
Technical University of Munich
University of Stuttgart
Istanbul Technical University
Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof

University Library of Tübingen

Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge
Stuttgart School
technical university
that city
neo-Romanesque
Weimar Republic
Third Reich
autobahns
Turkey
Solgne
Alsace-Lorraine
German Empire
Technical University of Munich
Theodor Fischer
Nazi party
SPD
Weimar Republic

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