A02 (part one)

In order to research three designers for this assignment, I wandered Knowlton library's shelves and picked out the most colorful or interesting books I could find. (I definitely judged by the cover!) I tried to come up with interior designers only, but it was really hard to find literature on that profession! Thus, this is how I came up with my short list of designers.


Andre Poitiers
-German architect
-He studied at the Technical University in Brunswick and also served in the military at Kiel.
-Poitiers' style consists of a lot of glass windows and geometric shapes.
-He designs in modern style but without the arbitrariness or carelessness.
-He is noted as being very experimental.
-His mantra is the famous "function follows form"
-Poitier has designed churches, banks, town halls, educational centers, housing, sports halls, environmental stations, and town harbors.
-He is very interested in industrial design also.
-He designed a sports hall for the city of Halstenbek, Germany. Unfortunately it collapsed twice during construction and demolished seven years after it was built.
-It was a very modern domed building with the sports courts and fields submerged slightly below ground level. The dome was glazed with insulating solar glass.

Sources:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knick-Ei 
Objects in the Territory by Andre Poitiers
       editors Andrea Ruby and Kristin Feireiss
Andres Poitiers by Ulrich Swartz. Published Weisbaden 1996.