Frederick Romberg
Frederick Romberg | |
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Frederick Romberg in 1937 | |
| Born | 21 June 1913 Qingdao, China |
| Died | 12 November 1992 (aged 79) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Inaugural President's Prize, 2006 National Award for Enduring Architecture |
| Practice | Grounds Romberg and Boyd (Gromboyd), later Romberg and Boyd |
| Buildings | Stanhill Flats, Newburn Flats, ETA Foods Factory, MacFarland Library, Ormond College, ICI Staff Recreation Centre, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church |
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.
Romberg was best known as the "middle term" in the architectural partnership known as ‘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.