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Frederick Romberg was born on 21 June, 1913 in Qingdao, China, is a Swiss-trained architect (1913–1992). Discover Frederick Romberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 21 June, 1913
Birthday 21 June
Birthplace Qingdao, China
Date of death 12 November, 1992
Died Place Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality China

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1913

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.

Frederick Romberg, second child of Prussian parents Kurt and Else Romberg, was born on 21 June 1913 in Qingdao (Qingdao), the principal German colonial possession in China.

His father worked in the Colonial Office, after a career as a doctor of law and a judge in Berlin.

The family returned to Berlin in September 1913 when Frederick was only a few months old.

1915

When World War 1 broke out, his father volunteered, and was killed in 1915.

1920

In 1920 his mother married a doctor, Hans Riebling, and the family moved to the town of Harburg, adjacent to Hamburg.

Here he attended the Stresemann Real-Gymnasium (now the Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium), where the principal Walter Schadow, was a supporter of Weimar Republic.

As a teenager, he sought out the local avant-garde, like those at the Worpswede artist's colony north of Bremen, where he met Heinrich Vogeler.

Here he would have seen architect Bernard Hoetger's Expressionist house, as well as his famous Böttcherstraße development in Bremen.

1931

After his first studying law at the University of Geneva in Switzerland in 1931, and then at various other universities, he then swapped in 1933 to the architecture course at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), one of the world's leading technical universities.

The earlier semesters of the course had a strong component of technical subjects such as mathematics, geometry and building statics.

He developed a remarkably consistent and rigorous more fern my cement language of architectural form, employing ribbon windows, cantilevers, roof gardens, open plans and new urban typologies.

After graduating from ETH-Zurich, he joined Otto Rudolf Salvisberg’s office as an architectural assistant for 6 months, working mainly on one project, a seven-storey laboratory building in Basel.

1938

Completing his studies in 1938, he emigrated to Melbourne that same year, and became a registered architect in 1940.

1939

In 1939 he formed a partnership with Mary Turner Shaw, Romberg & Shaw, a pioneering female architect 10 years his senior, who had also worked at Stephenson & Turner, administering various large projects.

Together they designed and built a number of pioneering Modernist large-scale apartment buildings, introducing a completely new approach to multi-family dwellings.

They include Newburn Flats (1939-41), and Yarrabee Flats and Glenunga Flats in 1940.

They also designed a few houses, combining Modernist and domestic elements.

1940

In his professional career from the 1940s to 1960s, he gradually refined his European modernist approach into a local one.

To understand the experience of migration is of fundamental importance in understanding the architecture of Fredrick Romberg.

While his commitment to Australia was absolute from the moment he arrived, he brought with him memories, knowledge and attitudes that were European in general and German in particular.

Arriving in Melbourne at Station Pier, he had an initial, brief visit to Canberra and Sydney, returned to Melbourne, and was immediately engaged by the office of Stephenson and Turner.

He was seconded to the design section and worked there for a year.

Romberg's complex and varied approach to the central plan suggests a secure grounding in historical precedent (a subject he taught at RMIT in the late 1940s) and possibly some knowledge of the immensely influential text by Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, first published in 1949 which dealt with both Palladian geometry and the central plan.

1942

The partnership ended in 1942 as the war made private practice impractical.

1943

He already had a very large project in hand, the landmark high-rise Stanhill Flats, designed as early as 1943, and built 1947-1950.

The client was businessman and entrepreneur Stanley Korman, who commissioned a number of further schemes from Romberg which mostly came to nothing.

1945

Romberg then worked in various offices and spent a year interned as an ‘enemy alien’, returning to private practice in 1945 as soon as the war ended, the same year he was naturalised.

1947

One project that did get built was another flat development called Hillstan, on the Nepean Highway in Brighton, built in 1947, two long curving rows of two storey blocks joined by glazed stairwells.

1949

He had moved his office from La Trobe Street in 1949 to the front flat on the top floor of Newburn and the following year into a penthouse created from the roof garden.

With his partners Roy Grounds and Robin Boyd, Romberg continued to explore local idioms in his schools, colleges and churches and to link his work to historical precedent in Australia.

At the same time, he excavated his own past, resurrecting its latent classicism in order to affirm Australia's earliest, and particularly Palladian, traditions.

1950

The relationship of Romberg's work to be emerging Brutalist movement in England is one of the more intriguing aspects of his practice during the 1950s and early 1960s.

1951

In 1951, Romberg's practice was in a precarious position.

1953

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.

1960

Brutalism in Australia is generally understood as a style of ‘rational and robust’ concrete architecture, largely institutional, widespread in the 1960s and 1970s.

Its forms derived from Le Corbusier’s later work and the Japanese new architecture.

During the National Gallery of Victoria and Cultural Centre project, where the practice of Grounds, Romberg and Boyd was appointed as the architects; at a more personal level, it caused the breakup of the partnership.