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IN MEMORIAM
HUGO LEIPZIGER-PEARCE
Hugo Leipziger-Pearce, professor emeritus of architecture,
died on July 13, 1998. He was 95.
Professor Leipziger-Pearce was born on December 8, 1902,
in Breslau, Germany. He studied at Wilhelm University and the Art Academy
in Breslau. Later he studied at the University of Hamburg. He was admitted
to the German Institute of Architects in 1927.
Professor Leipziger-Pearce had a varied career prior
to joining the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin. He was
director and chief architect for the German government's community development
program in Silesia from 1928 to 1933. For a brief time he practiced
architecture in Paris, France. In 1934 he accepted a position with an
architectural firm in Australia. His award-winning design for the firm's
Women's Hospital in Melbourne brought him to New York to complete work
on the Australian Pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair.
Also in 1939, UT Austin President Homer Rainey and San
Antonio Mayor Maury Maverick Sr. matched Dr. Leipziger-Pearce's three-year
Rockefeller grant and brought him to the University, where he taught
until his retirement in 1974. During his long tenure at UT Austin, Professor
Leipziger-Pearce initiated the Program in Community and Regional Planning
and directed it for 19 years. He also worked with the Urban Planning
Assistance Progam for Texas.
In 1950-51 he served as a postwar reconstruction consultant
to the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany. In the mid-sixties he again
served as consultant to the German government's urban and regional planning
agencies.
Professor Leipziger-Pearce was an honorary
member of the German Institute of Architects. His German work is housed
at the Architecture Museum in Frankfurt as a example of early practictioners
of the international style.
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John R. Durbin, Secretary
The General Faculty
Biographical sketch prepared by Teresa Palomo Acosta
and posted on the Faculty Council web site on January 5, 2001.
Additional biographical sources can be found in the Barker Texas
History Center, the UT Office of Public Affairs, and in the Office
of the General Faculty.
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