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Schwarz, Rudolf
(b Strasbourg, 15 May 1897; d Cologne, 3 April 1961). German architect, urban planner, theorist and writer. He studied at the Technische Universität (1915–19) and then at the Kunstakademie (1919–23), Berlin, under Hans Poelzig. Together with theologian Romano Guardini, he was a member of Quickborn, a Catholic youth group associated with the journal Die Schildgenossen, and in this journal he published some early articles on architecture that influenced Mies van der Rohe. He also became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund. From 1925 to 1927 he was Professor of Architecture at the Bau- und Kunstgewerbeschule, Offenbach, and from 1927 to 1934 Director of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Aachen.
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