Adrien Pichard

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Adrien Pichard (born June 30, 1790 in Lausanne , † July 25, 1841 there , entitled to reside in Yverdon-les-Bains , French citizen from 1817 ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Pichard attended the École polytechnique in Paris from 1807 and was then trained as an engineer at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées . From 1811 he worked in Belgium and France , whose citizenship he acquired in 1817. The following year he was called to Lausanne as a cantonal engineer and was therefore subordinate to the State Council of the canton of Vaud . He began to set up the office for bridge and road construction and was involved in drawing up the relevant laws. In addition to all public buildings, he was also responsible for building roads and bridges, which enjoyed a great boom in the first half of the 19th century. Among other things, Pichard was in charge of road construction Nyon - Saint-Cergue - Les Rousses from 1824 to 1830, Yverdon - Sainte-Croix - Pontarlier from 1832 to 1849, Lausanne- Oron-la-Ville from 1833 to 1846, Aigle - Les Ormonts - Le Sépey from 1834 to 1839, and Vevey - Châtel-Saint-Denis from 1835 to 1841.

His main architectural works include the Béthusy penal institution in Lausanne, built between 1819 and 1826 , as well as a bypass road called Ceinture Pichard (Pichard belt), also in Lausanne, which relieved the inner city, which was already heavily used in 1836, and brought together all important traffic routes. The existing height differences were overcome with engineering structures , such as the Great Bridge, posthumously completed in 1845, and the Tunnel de la Barre , on which construction began only after Pichard's death (1851–1855).

The philosophy enthusiast wrote the two-volume work Ebauche d'un essai sur les notions radicales in 1834 , which reports on the treatment of his origin of ideas. In 1834 he was made honorary chief engineer of the École des Ponts et Chaussées de France and was president of the Vaudois non-profit society from 1835 to 1837 .

literature

  • Laurent Golay: Pichard, (Gabriel-Marc-) Adrien. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 320
  • Philippe Gasser: Adrien Pichard, engineer et premier urbaniste de Lausanne . In: Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . tape 114 , no. 20 , 1988, pp. 307-314 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-76837 .
  • Paul Bissegger: Pichard, Adrien. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Joëlle Neuenschwander Feihl, Gilles Barbey, Georg Germann: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . Lausanne. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 5 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1990, ISBN 3-280-01982-6 , p. 316 , col. 3 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-6589 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  2. ^ Philippe Gasser: Adrien Pichard, engineer et premier urbaniste de Lausanne . In: Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . tape 114 , no. 20 , 1988, pp. 307-314 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-76837 .
personal data
SURNAME Pichard, Adrien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichard, Gabriel-Marc-Adrien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1841
Place of death Lausanne