Stefan Wewerka
(1928-)
Stefan Wewerka was born in 1928 in Magdeburg, Germany. After graduating from
the Hochschule der Künste in Berlijn — where he studied with Max
Taut and Eduard Ludwig — Wewerka worked in the 1950s in the office of
the Luckardt brothers and afterwards between 1962 and 1965 in the office of
Scharoun. Wewerka mixes the disciplines art, design and architecture. In addition
to his practical work as an architect, he has made use of the media of photography,
film, painting, drawing and art. Wewerka designed furniture for the Tecta firm
of Axel Bruchhäuser; besides conventional pieces in line with Bauhaus ideas,
he designed the ‘Kitchen Tree’ (1984) and the ‘Cella’,
a furniture piece that is also a small living unit with a sofa and a folding
bed (1954-84). Wewerka gained special renown with his deconstructed chairs,
bent or folded, cut into pieces and re-assembled.
Wewerka became involved in the Team 10 meetings through Georges Candilis, with
whom he worked in the early 1960s. He participated for the first time at the
Team 10 meeting in 1960 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze and continued to be a Team
10 adherent during the 1960s and 1970s. His best-known designs that are part
of the Team 10 canon are the so-called boulevard buildings for the revitalization
of Paris and Berlin (1962) and the design for the Ruhwald housing estate in
Berlin (1965).
Wewerka lives and works in Cologne and Berlin.
See also the Stefan Wewerka
website