One of many architects of the Teresa Carreño Theater died

The German-Hungarian-Venezuelan architect, Dietrich Kunckel Under (86), died this June 25, within the metropolis of Budapest, Hungary, the place he had lived for 9 years.

Dietrich Kunckel Under was one of many designers and builders of the long-lasting Teresa Carreño Theater in Caracas. He lived in Venezuela from 1963 to 2016.

Dietrich, born in Berlin, was the daddy of three kids. “He was a gentleman like earlier than, elegant and really cordial. He was a consultant of Venezuela in Budapest“That is how lawyer Enrique Alvarado described it, who reported on the architect’s dying.

In 1970, along with the Anzoatiguense architects Thomas Lugo (1943-2016) and the Aragüeño Jesus Sandoval (1942-77) gained the competitors for the design of the Teresa Carreño Theater, in Caracas.

Dietrich was the one architect of the Teresa Carreño Theater who was nonetheless alive among the many three of them.

The competitors was awarded in September 1970, and the development of the cultural advanced started in 1973; The theater was inaugurated in two phases, first with the José Félix Ribas room, in February 1976, after which the Ríos Reyna room and the remainder of the cultural advanced, on April 19, 1983.