Walter Moser (architect)
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Walter Moser (born April 11, 1931 in Schaffhausen ) is a Swiss architect who helped shape modern sacred architecture in Switzerland with seventeen new churches from 1960 . In addition, he realized numerous public buildings and carried out renovation and renovation projects on historic churches in German-speaking Switzerland.
life and work
Walter Moser is the son of the architect Alois Moser (1900–1972), who himself built a number of new churches, such as the Catholic churches in Würenlos , Killwangen and Untersiggenthal . Walter Moser graduated from the Rämibühl Zurich Cantonal School , today's Mathematisch Naturwissenschaftliche Gymnasium (MNG), in 1950 with the Matura and then studied architecture at the ETH Zurich , which he graduated in 1955. In the following years, father Alois Moser and son Walter Moser realized the new church buildings in Langenthal BE and St. Maria Emmenbrücke LU . From 1958 to 1960 Walter Moser lived in Finland , where he worked in the Helsinki office of Alvar Aalto , whose work shaped him. In 1960 Walter Moser returned to Switzerland and founded his own architectural office in Zurich. He took part in architecture competitions, through which he was able to realize notable orders in the field of Catholic sacred buildings in German-speaking Switzerland and in neighboring countries. Since the 1970s, Walter Moser has also carried out renovation and renovation projects at important historical and contemporary churches. Among the secular buildings by Walter Moser, the projects in the newly built Grünau district in Zurich should be mentioned (Grünau nursing home, Grünau district center, school, kindergarten and indoor swimming pool), which characterize the district. Walter Moser worked on his projects with well-known painters and sculptors, u. a. Max Rüedi , Herbert Albrecht , Otto Müller , Alfred Huber , Hans Christen and Max Hellstern. Walter Moser is a member of the Association of Swiss Architects BSA. Walter Moser has been running the architecture office together with his son Andreas Moser since 1984.
Works
New buildings (selection)
Walter Moser's architectural office (1960–1984)
- 1962: Catholic Church Liebfrauen Heiden AR
- 1962: Catholic Church of St. Christophorus Wangen an der Aare BE (with works of art by Max Rüedi and Jean Hutter senior)
- 1965: Catholic Church Heiligkreuz Künten AG (works of art by Max Rüedi and Alfred Huber)
- 1965: Meiers Söhne AG Künten AG factory building
- 1966: Catholic Church Karl Borromäus Zeihen AG (works of art by Bernard Schorderet and Alfred Huber)
- 1967: Catholic Church St. Josef Aedermannsdorf SO (works of art by Alfred Huber)
- 1967: Catholic Church Fehren SO
- 1967: Catholic Church Christ-König Biel-Mett BE (works of art by Max Rüedi and Alfred Huber)
- 1968: St. Meinrad Catholic Church , community center, apartments, shops, offices and kindergarten in Pfäffikon SZ (works of art by Bernard Schorderet and Hans Christen)
- 1968: School building Zufikon AG
- 1968: Forestry Office Baden AG
- 1968: Saalbau and Pfarrhaus Spreitenbach AG
- 1969: School building and sports facility Meierhof Baden AG
- 1969: Catholic Church St. Niklaus Hombrechtikon ZH (works of art by Max Hellstern and Herbert Albrecht)
- 1969: Ilanz Monastery GR including the monastery church (works of art by Max Rüedi, Alfred Huber, Hans Christen as well as Jacqueline and Alfred Gruber-Stieger)
- 1970: Catholic Church of St. Martin Bürs Vorarlberg (works of art by Herbert Albrecht)
- 1972: Catholic Church St. Johannes Geroldswil ZH
- 1972: Pedestrian zone Metro shop with 12 Baden AG shops
- 1973: Catholic Church Maria-Hilf Zurich-Leimbach (works of art by Max Hellstern and Peter Travaglini )
- 1973: Boarding school and St. Joseph Institute from Ilanz Monastery, GR
- 1974: Catholic Church Brother Klaus Stein AG
- 1974: Gstühl Baden AG high-rise
- 1974: Zeihen AG parish hall
- 1976: SBB- Dietikon ZH station
- 1977: Multi-purpose church Selzach SO (works of art by Peter Travaglini)
- 1977: Catholic Church St. Martin Birmensdorf ZH
- 1979–80: Catholic Church of the Holy Family Schöftland AG
- 1980: District center, school, kindergarten, indoor swimming pool in the Grünau district of Zurich- Altstetten
- 1982: District center, retirement home and retirement homes in the Grünau district, Zurich-Altstetten
- 1982: Ecumenical church and parish hall in Arni AG
Architectural office Andreas and Walter Moser (from 1984)
- 1984: Bewatol Dietikon ZH office building
- 1986: Ländli Würenlos AG school building extension
- 1988: Parish center of the St. Konrad Church in Zurich-Albisrieden
- 1988: School building extension Gipf-Oberfrick AG
- 1993: School building extension North Würenlos AG
- 1993: Parish center of the St. Franziskus Church in Zurich-Wollishofen
- 1994: Extension of the Grünau school building in Zurich-Altstetten
- 1995: Arni AG multi-purpose hall and schoolhouse and gym renovation
- 1997: Kempfhof Würenlos AG residential development
- 2002: Residential and commercial development center Würenlos AG
- 2005: Residential and commercial development with Brunnerhof Würenlos AG retirement apartments
- 2012: Liebherr International Nussbaumen AG administration building
Renovations, conversions and extensions (selection)
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- 1972: Catholic Church St. Michael Kaisten AG
- 1973: Catholic Church St. Meinrad Wölflinswil AG
- 1974: Catholic Church St. Agatha Zeiningen AG
- 1975: Catholic Church St. Gallus Büron LU
- 1975 and 2000: Catholic Church St. Fridolin Leibstadt AG
- 1976: Catholic Church Baldingen AG
- 1976: Kapelle Melsdorf AG
- 1977: Old Church of the Assumption of Mary Selzach SO
- 1978: Catholic Church of St. Nikolaus von Myra Brugg AG: installation of a basement and total renovation
- 1978: Propstei Wislikofen AG: Reconstruction of the Propsteig building including the church, conversion to an education center
- 1979: Trotte Rekingen AG: Conversion of the historic building into an ecumenical worship room
- 1980: Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity Adliswil ZH: Addition of a chapel and complete renovation of the church
- 1984: Complete renovation of the Catholic Church of St. Blasius Oberehrendingen AG, new building of the Reformed Church, construction of an ecumenical church center
- 1984: Catholic Church St. Katharina Kaiserstuhl AG:
- 1985: Reformed Church Klingnau AG
- 1986: Monastery church Königsfelden Windisch AG
- 1986: Catholic Church St. Sebastian Wettingen AG
- 1988: Catholic Church Würenlingen AG
- 1988: Reconstruction of the burned-out catholic town church Bremgarten AG
- 1989: Complete renovation of the St. Konrad Church in Zurich-Albisrieden
- 1991: Reconstruction and renovation of the Empire wing spa hotel in Park Schinznach Bad
- 1992: Old Church Würenlos AG
- 1992: Catholic Church of St. Nikolaus von Myra Schneisingen AG
- 1993: Catholic Church St. Anna Mühlau AG
- 1994: Catholic Church St. Laurentius Eggenwil AG
- 1995: Catholic Church St. Katharina Kaiserstuhl AG
- 1996: Monastery church Wettingen AG
- 1996: Catholic Church Brother Klaus Stein AG
- 1996: Catholic Church Emmenbrücke LU
- 1997: Obere Kirche Zurzach AG
- 1997: Catholic Church St. Niklaus Hombrechtikon ZH
- 2000: Catholic Church of St. Maria Würenlos AG
- 2003: Catholic Church Maria Frieden Dübendorf ZH
- 2008: City house extension at Rathausgasse Baden AG
- 2008: Crypt Catholic Church St. Anton Zurich
- 2010: Catholic Church St. Benignus Pfäffikon ZH
- 2014: Renewal of the Annakapelle in the Church of St. Peter and Paul , Zurich-Aussersihl
- 2014: Catholic Church Maria Hilf Zurich-Leimbach
- 2015: Catholic Church Holy Family Richterswil
Individual evidence
- ^ Archive of the architectural office Moser Architects
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moser, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 11, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schaffhausen |