| 1929 |
Construction of the "Sommerhaus" for Albert Einstein in Caputh and
completion of a house for Dr. Estrich in Jüterbog; opening of an
architecture office in Berlin
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| 1930 |
Publishes the book "Holzhausbau — Technik und Gestaltung"
(construction of wooden houses — technique and design)
by "Ernst Wasmuth Verlag", Berlin.
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| 1932 |
Wins the "Prix de Rome" award from the Prussian Academy of Art,
including a scholarship for one year in the "Villa Massimo" in Rome.
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| 1933 |
Leaves the "Villa Massimo" under protest against
the NS-regime in Germany;
becomes assistent to the Granada city planner.
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| 1934 |
Establishes an architecture office in Rome, projects in steel construction.
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| 1935 |
Last visit to his home town before World War II
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| 1938 |
Taken into arbitrary detention ("Schutzhaft")
in Rome and escaped to France
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| 1939 |
Internment, volunteers for the French army
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| 1941 |
Emigration to the USA
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| 1941—1949 |
Develops the "General Panel System" together with Walter Gropius.
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| 1942 |
Mother, sister and her 16-year-old son are deported to Riga
and killed.
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| 1942 |
Becomes founder and managing director of the "General Panel Corporation"
in New York, together with Walter Gropius; development of the
"Mobilar Structure Building System".
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| 1944 |
Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; development of a
fully automated factory for building panels for the
"General Panel Corporation" in California
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| 1947 |
Obtains US citizenship.
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| 1949—1956 |
Appointed professor at the "Institute of Design",
Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago
Director of the "Department of Advanced Building Research";
research activities for the "Federal Housing Agency",
the US Air Force and the steel industry
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| 1954 |
Guest professorship at Karlsruhe University,
visiting his colleague Egon Eiermann
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| 1955—1956 |
Journey around the world sponsored by the US Ministry for Foreign Affairs,
with lectures and tutorials in Japan, Israel, Germany and Austria
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| 1956—1960 |
Organisation of annual tutorials at the
International Summer University Salzburg
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| 1958 |
Exposition "Bauen in unserer Zeit" (building in our time)
in Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Rome, Amsterdam, Delft and Essen
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| 1959 |
Tutorial about the industrialization of building at the
"Ecole Polytechnique de l'Universitè de Lausanne"
(Polytechnique school of the University of Lausanne, France);
Exhibition "Corbusier and Wachsmann" at the
National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome;
Publication of the book "Wendepunkt im Bauen"
(Turning Point in Building)
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| 1960 |
Tutorial at the Yale University;
Marriage with Judith
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| 1961 |
Publishing of the illustrated book "Aspekte" (Aspects);
birth of daughter Ray
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| 1962—1964 |
Plans a 50-floor steel skyscraper for the Italian steel industry
in Genoa as well as city and harbour planning for Genoa.
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| 1964 |
Appointed professor at the "School of Architecture",
University of Southern California
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| 1966 |
Development of a pre-stressed cable construction
for the city hall of California City
|
| 1969 |
Member of the managing committee of the "Bauhaus-Archiv" in Berlin;
invited by the "Bauakademie" to visit the GDR
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| 1970 |
Wachsmann is awarded the "Gold Medal of the Senate of the Italian Republic"
visit to the USSR as guest of the state building control department.
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| 1971 |
Travelling exhibition "Konrad Wachsmann — 50 Jahre Leben und Arbeit
für die Industrialisierung des Bauens" (Konrad Wachsmann — 50 years of
living and work dedicated to the industrialization of building);
over 100 registered patents in the building sector
|
| 1972 |
Exhibition at the Octagon, the historical building of the
"American Institute of Architects" in Washington D.C.
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| 1973 |
Appointed member of the Academy of Art in Berlin,
awarded honorary doctorate of engineering by the Technical University of Stuttgart,
repeated visits to the GDR and Poland
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| 1976 |
Appointed honorary member of the American Institute of Architects
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| 1977 |
Awarded honorary doctorate of Laws by the University of Southern California
|
| 1978 |
Invitation by the "Generalkonservator"
(department for the protection of historical monuments)
in the GDR to take part in restoration of the "Albert-Einstein-Haus"
in Caputh
|
| 1979 |
Guest at the GDR Academy of Science to celebrate
Einstein's 100th birthday
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| 1980 |
Konrad Wachsmann dies in Los Angeles on November 25th.
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| 1981 |
His urn is buried in the Frankfurt (Oder)
"Hauptfriedhof"
(main cemetery).
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