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1978-1984 architectural studies, Technische Universität Berlin
1985 DAAD scholarship, Venedig
1986 in architecture office Langhof, Berlin
1986-1988 in architecture office Kuhler, Mannheim
1988-1993 assistant professor, TH Darmstadt at the chair of house building
1989 foundation of Stefan Forster Architekten
Forster takes his cue from the great housing architects of the 1920s, he adapts the housing models of Schumacher, but also those of Bruno Taut and Ernst May to suit contemporary needs. For his housing projects in Frankfurt, Forster has concentrated on perimeter development, whereby he modifies existing configurations to suit each respective location. Fritz Schumacher wrote that the art of residential construction lay in combining “individual elements to form a whole organism”. According to Schumacher the combination of the two, namely the design of the individual units and the urban planning context form the real task the architect must tackle. This is what Forster achieves, by giving “each individual unit an attractive design“, but also by the art of combining the individual elements to make a composite organism in an urban context. Both together, according to Schumacher form the decisive features in “the artistic physiognomy of a human agglomeration“. Residential building, the main legacy of classic Modernism, has found an important contemporary advocate in Stefan Forster.
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