Bodascher Otto – 1891-1971 – Urbanist

1891, Moravia, Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic - 1971, Timișoara

Urbanist. Chief Engineer at the Timișoara Municipal Studies Office

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„One of the most remarkable urban planners in interwar Romania‟

Anca Brătuleanu

Among other concepts, he develops together with Adrian Suciu, "Head of the Communal Technical Service of the Municipality", the idea of "street-garden", "a means of ensuring green space at the individual level and at the level of the urban community" (A. Brătuleanu, Interwar Timișoara. Urbanism and architecture, p. 36)


He worked at Timișoara City Hall as "Chief Engineer of the Municipal Studies Office". He collaborated with the "Institut d'Urbanisme de l'Université de Sorbonne - Paris". He wrote articles about urbanism in Timișoara and about improving the quality of life in cities in the magazine "Urbanismul" in Bucharest coordinated by Cincinat Sfințescu and in the French urbanism magazine "La vie urbaine". Within the Timișoara City Hall, he elaborated studies, economic analyzes and urban regulations. In 1933 he went on a study trip to Czechoslovakia. The author of a novel.

Publications

  • Otto Bodascher, Les principes d’une théorie du „parallélisme” des établissements humains. 1935
  • Articles, studies

Sources

  • Anca Brătuleanu, Interwar Timișoara. Urbanism and architecture. Timişoara Artpress, 2016
  • Anca Brătuleanu, Otto Bodascher and interwar Timisoara. Publicat în Dilema veche, no. 424, March 29 - April 4, 2012
  • Gabriel Szekely, Encyclopedia of architects from Banat 1700-1990. Eurostampa. Timişoara 2017