Frederick Romberg
Swiss-trained architect (1913–1992) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Frederick Romberg, (Friedrich Sigismund Hermann Romberg), (21 June 1913, in Qingdao – 12 November 1992, in Melbourne), was a Swiss-trained architect who migrated to Australia in 1938, and became a leading figure in the development of Modernism in his adopted city.
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Frederick Romberg | |
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Born | (1913-06-21)21 June 1913 Qingdao, China |
Died | 12 November 1992(1992-11-12) (aged 79) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Nationality | German |
Occupation | Architect |
Awards | Inaugural President’s prize, National Architecture 2006 - National 25 Year Award |
Practice | Grounds Romberg and Boyd (Gromboyd), later Romberg and Boyd |
Buildings | Stanhill Flats, Newburn Flats, ETA Foods Factory, MacFarland Library, Ormond College, ICI Staff Recreation Centre, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church |
Romberg was best known as the "middle term" in the architectural partnership of ‘Gromboyd‘ - Grounds, Romberg and Boyd (1953-1962), as well as for some landmark apartment buildings in 1940s Melbourne. He brought an awareness of great European academic tradition, and the Modernist architecture of Switzerland and Germany, re-formed into architecture appropriate to Australia. His buildings are characteristically empiricist in intention and form, using local materials within the formal framework of modernism.