Edmund Collein was an East German architect and urban planner.
15 Facts About Edmund Collein
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Edmund Collein is known for his photography while studying at the Bauhaus art school.
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Edmund Collein was Professor of Urban Planning at the Bauakademie der DDR and he was the Academy's inaugural Vice-President.
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Edmund Collein was the President of the Bund der Architekten der DDR between 1966 and 1975, and he represented East German architects on government bodies and at the International Union of Architects.
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Edmund Collein was one of the authors of The Sixteen Principles of Urban Design, which from 1950 until 1955 was the primary model for urban planning in the GDR.
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Edmund Collein was born on 10 January 1906 in Bad Kreuznach, a spa town in the Rhineland.
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Edmund Collein studied at the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, now the Technische Universitat Darmstadt, from 1925 to 1927.
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Edmund Collein was a student at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1927 to 1930.
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Edmund Collein undertook the preliminary course run by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, studied in the carpentry workshop under Marcel Breuer and Josef Albers, and took classes by Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Joost Schmidt.
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From 1930, Edmund Collein worked in Vienna, building apartments for workers' housing associations, and from 1938 he was employed building hospitals in Munich and Berlin.
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Edmund Collein worked for the buildings department of the East Berlin municipal authority until 1951 and became head of the city planning office.
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In January 1951 Edmund Collein became Professor for Urban Planning and Vice-president of the newly created Bauakademie der DDR and the Academy's inaugural Vice-President.
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Together with Josef Kaiser and Werner Dutschke, Edmund Collein was involved in the second phase of construction of Karl-Marx-Allee, on the section between Strausberger Platz and Alexanderplatz.
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In 1958, Edmund Collein became head of the Institute for District, Town and Village Planning at the Bauakademie der DDR.
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Edmund Collein was Chairman of the Advisory Council for Construction for the Council of Ministers of East Germany from 1955 to 1958.