Heinrich Johann Niemeyer
Heinrich Johann Niemeyer was a German independent architect. Niemeyer's style was partly based on other futuristic architecture like that of Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudi and John Lautner and combined space for work and living under same roof. Heinrich Johann Niemeyer was born 1936 and died 2010 in Tübingen each, by 1977 for his family he had built a house in Rottenburg-Dettingen.
Heinrich Johann Niemeyer

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- Name
- Heinrich Johann Niemeyer
- Born
- 1936
- Died
- 2010
- Place of death
- Tübingen, Germany
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages
- German
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Heinrich Johann Niemeyer was a German independent architect. Niemeyer's style was partly based on other futuristic architecture like that of Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudi and John Lautner and combined space for work and living under same roof. Heinrich Johann Niemeyer was born 1936 and died 2010 in Tübingen each, by 1977 for his family he had built a house in Rottenburg-Dettingen.
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He was a member of Unitas Markomannia fraternity. Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer was a far relative of him. Niemeyer worked until his death in the surrounded by nature, a small, romantic-haunted "house in the Charlottenstraße 22 of Tübingen, which was not built by him, but was older and demolished in 2016.

Tübingen. Das vom Heinrich Johann Niemeyer 1969 entworfene Wohnhaus Neckarhalde 41.
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Lilli-Zapf-Straße 3 Tübingen
Giftzwerg 88
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• Name — Heinrich Johann Niemeyer • Born — 1936 • Died — 2010 • Place of death — Tübingen, Germany
Work (selection)
Work (selection)
• 1959/60: Neckarhalde 43, Tübingen: House Herb with natural architecture and Green roof (while studying) • 1968: Neckarhalde 41, Tübingen: glazed apartment house in which the literary scholar Hans Mayer lived. • Stilt houses of Pulheim–Sinnersdorf • crystal Houses of Bregenz hexagonal buildings similar to the Futuro by Matti Suuronen or the Chemosphäre by John Lautner. • 1970: Crystal House Nagold–Emmingen • Illustration — Stilt houses of Sinnersdorf • Illustration — The Herb House in Tübingen
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1936
Heinrich Johann Niemeyer born at Tübingen.
2010
Heinrich Johann Niemeyer died.
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Heinrich Johann Niemeyer was born at Tübingen.
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- 1.Ein großer Verlust. Schwäbisches Tagblatt.
- 2.Seite 26
- 3.Ulrike Pfeil: Architekturführer Tübingen. Neue Architektur im Landkreis Tübingen 1901-2001., Architektenkammer Baden-Württemberg, Tübingen 2002, S. 15
- 4.Anna Treutler: Architekt Heinrich Johann Niemeyer (1936-2010) Dissertation, Universität Stuttgart, 2017, .
- 5.Patentanmeldung DE000001784632A
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