Frederick Romberg brought an awareness of great European academic tradition, and the Modernist architecture of Switzerland and Germany, re-formed into architecture appropriate to Australia.
13 Facts About Frederick Romberg
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Frederick Romberg's buildings are characteristically empiricist in intention and form, using local materials within the formal framework of modernism.
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Frederick Romberg, second child of Prussian parents Kurt and Else Romberg, was born on 21 June 1913 in Qingdao, the principal German colonial possession in China.
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Frederick Romberg's father worked in the Colonial Office, after a career as a doctor of law and a judge in Berlin.
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The family returned to Berlin in September 1913 when Frederick Romberg was only a few months old.
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Frederick Romberg developed a remarkably consistent and rigorous more fern my cement language of architectural form, employing ribbon windows, cantilevers, roof gardens, open plans and new urban typologies.
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Frederick Romberg was seconded to the design section and worked there for a year.
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Frederick Romberg had moved his office from La Trobe Street in 1949 to the front flat on the top floor of Newburn and the following year into a penthouse created from the roof garden.
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In 1965, Frederick Romberg was appointed the foundation Professor of Architecture at the University of Newcastle and he held this position for the following decade.
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Frederick Romberg returned to Melbourne in 1975 where he carried on a small practice into the 1980s.
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Frederick Romberg died at his home in East Melbourne in November 1992.
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The 26-year-old Frederick Romberg had been in Melbourne for little more than a year when he embarked on Newburn project.
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Frederick Romberg used the technology he was familiar with from his time in Salvisberg's office, reinforced concrete.