Joseph Brix und Felix Genzmer Park

Brix initially worked as a city building councilor in Altona in 1895–98, where he also took over the provisional management of the city building office from 1897. In these functions, he was not only responsible for the redesign of the Altona station area in the course of the conversion of the former train station to the Altona town hall (completed in 1898 according to the design of the building inspector Emil Brandt), but also prepared the way for the implementation of Josef Stübben's urban expansion plans for the city of Altona . In the years 1900 to 1907, Brix planned a subterranean sewer network including the Salzbach in Wiesbaden since 2003.

In 1904 Brix received a professorship for urban planning at the Technical University in Charlottenburg, one of the first chairs of this kind in Germany. Together with his colleague Felix Genzmer (1856–1929), who represented urban design and colored decoration in the architecture department, Josef Brix founded the seminar for urban design, housing and housing in winter semester 1907/1908.

In the following years he and Genzmer developed urban planning concepts for Berlin and its surroundings that set standards. Particularly noteworthy is the planning for the Frohnau garden city, which was built from 1908 to 1910. Significant was the design submitted together with Genzmer at the Groß-Berlin competition in 1910 and awarded one of two first prizes with the motto "Think about future".

Brix received the title of Secret Government Councilor and became Rector in 1918 and a year later Vice Rector of the Technical University in Charlottenburg. He was also a member of the Prussian Academy of Building.

Josef Brix died in Berlin in early 1943 at the age of 83. His grave in the cemetery Heerstrasse in Berlin-Westend has not been preserved.

The Brixplatz in the Westend district of the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is named after him, as are the Josef-Brix-Straße in the Wiesbaden district of Biebrich and the Professor-Brix-Weg in the Altona district in Hamburg. The Josef Brix and Felix Genzmer Park in Berlin-Frohnau has been bearing his name and that of his colleague since 2011.

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