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Showing posts with label Swiss. Show all posts

Denis Honegger (1907-1981) Architect

Denis Honegger was a Swiss architect. He worked for several years with Le Corbusier and later with Perret.

Main achievements
University of Friburg, along with Fernand Dumas. This building was mainly built with concrete as a building material. It was designed with a monumental, more traditional design.
Institut de Physique in Geneva.

Hans Brechbühler (1907) Building Engineer

Hans Brechbühler is a Swiss building engineer. Besides the realization of many houses Hans worked for one year with Le Corbusier in Paris. With Proffessor Salvisberg he worked on a number of important buildings.

Main achievements
Gewerbeschule Zentrale in Bern.
Blutspende Zentrale in Bern.
Primarschulhaus in Bern-Bümplitz.
Lagerhaus Köniz Bern.

Hans Bernoulli (1876) building engineer

Hans Bernoulli was a Swiss building engineer. From 1903 to 1912 he was professor at the Techn. Hocheschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg, then to the Eidg. Techn. Hochschule in Basel. He was also editor of 'Work'. Doctor H. C. at the University of Basel and is also known as an author on the architectural field. He was busy in the urban area and was a consultant for the reconstruction of Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna and several German cities.

His best-known projects
Schule Arlesheim
Construction of the Greifengasse
Church Gundeldingen
Kunsthaus
Hirzbrunnenquartier in Basel

Max Bill (1908) architect

Max Bill was a Swiss architect and teacher in morphology to the Gewerbeschule in Zurich. But from 1948 he was also a lecturer at the Technical University of Ulm and director of the Hochschule für Gestaltung. He designed many buildings standing beside prefabricated and ordinary homes. He designed houses and furniture and industrial design. As an author, he wrote seven books about Le Corbusier, R. Maillaert and Modern Schweizer Architektur.

Main buildings
Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm.
Swedish Pavilion at Triennale, Milan (1936 and 1951).
Wall Raus Theorem 'Die gute Form' in Basel (1949).