Eugene Rosenberg (architect)
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Eugene (Evžen) Rosenberg (24 February 1907, in
Topoľčany Topoľčany (; before 1920; ) is a town in the Nitra Region of Slovakia. The population is around 25,000 in total. The town's population is nicknamed ''Žochári'' (singl. ''Žochár'') (producers, or owners of "mosses"). The Nitra River flows t ...
– 21 November 1990, in
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) was a Slovak modernist architect.


Life

Rosenberg was born in
Topoľčany Topoľčany (; before 1920; ) is a town in the Nitra Region of Slovakia. The population is around 25,000 in total. The town's population is nicknamed ''Žochári'' (singl. ''Žochár'') (producers, or owners of "mosses"). The Nitra River flows t ...
,
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in 1907. He studied engineering in
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,
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, and
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between 1920 and 1928 and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague between 1929 and 1932 as a pupil of Josef Gočár. In between his studies in 1929 he worked with
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in Paris and Josef Havlíček and Karel Honzík in Prague. He set up his own practice in Prague in 1934 but left
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for Britain in 1939 to escape the Third Reich occupation of Czechoslovakia and encouraged by his friendship with
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and F. R. S. Yorke. In 1940 Rosenberg was interned and sent to Australia, kept first in Hay Gaol, in New South Wales, and then in Camp Tatura, Victoria returning to London in 1942. In 1944, he established the firm
Yorke Rosenberg Mardall Yorke Rosenberg Mardall (Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall, YRM) was a British architectural firm established by F. R. S. Yorke (1906-1962), Eugene Rosenberg (1907-1990) and Cyril Mardall (Sjöström) (1909-1994) in 1944.Melvin, Jeremy (1997). Obit ...
with F. R. S. Yorke and C.S. Mardall and they were responsible for a number of innovative architectural projects such as
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, the
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, Oxford and the Manchester Magistrates Court. Rosenberg spent several years following his retirement working on a book that he hoped would inspire alliances between artists and architects. Rosenberg died in 1990. In 1992, ''Architect's Choice, Art in Architecture in Great Britain since 1945'' was published by Thames and Hudson. Rosenberg was a collector of contemporary and twentieth century art and was passionate in promoting public art such as the Altnagelvin Hospital Mural (1959–61) by William Scott, which was commissioned by Rosenberg, the architect of this first post-war NHS Hospital in Britain, in 1958. Shortly before his death he wrote "I am committed to the belief that the artist has an important contribution to make to architecture. The bond between contemporary art and architecture is not easy to define, but I believe they are complementary - that architecture is enriched by art and that art has something to gain from its architectural setting."


Notable buildings

* Apartment and retail units block, M. Horákové,
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(1936) * Apartment, with mall and retail units passage, Štepánská pasáž,
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(1937–38) * Sigmund Pumps Factory, Team Valley Trading Estate,
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(1948) * Sish Lane Flats,
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(1952) *
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,
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(1958–60) * Crawley Hospital (1961) *
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(1962–67) * John Lewis Warehouse,
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(1963) with Felix Candela * Belfast Synagogue (1964) *
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(1963–66) *
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(1966-1975) * Wellington Hospital, London (1972)


See also

*
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* 1964 in architecture * F. R. S. Yorke *
Yorke Rosenberg Mardall Yorke Rosenberg Mardall (Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall, YRM) was a British architectural firm established by F. R. S. Yorke (1906-1962), Eugene Rosenberg (1907-1990) and Cyril Mardall (Sjöström) (1909-1994) in 1944.Melvin, Jeremy (1997). Obit ...


References


Literature

* Reyner Banham, ''The Architecture of Yorke Rosenberg Mardall'', Lund Humphries, London, 1972 * Muriel Emanuel (editor), ''Contemporary Architects'', Macmillan Press, London, 1980 * Eugene Rosenberg and Richard Cork, ''Architect's Choice: Art and Architecture in Great Britain Since 1945'', Thames & Hudson, London 1992 * Alan Powers, ''In the Line of Development: FRS Yorke, E Rosenberg and CS Mardall to YRM, 1930-1992'', RIBA Heinz Gallery, London, 1992 * Zdeněk Lukeš, ''Splátka dluhu: Praha a její německy hovořící architekti'', Fraktály, Praha, 2002 * Jeremy Melvin, ''FRS Yorke and the Evolution of English Modernism'', Wiley-Academy, London, 2003 * Ivan Margolius, ''Prague – A guide to twentieth century architecture'', Ellipsis, London, 1996 * ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', index number 101101021/Eugene-Rosenberg {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosenberg, Eugene (architect) 1907 births 1990 deaths 20th-century British architects Slovak architects Czechoslovak emigrants to the United Kingdom Jews who immigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism British people of Slovak-Jewish descent