Tschumi and Benoit

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Tschumi und Benoit (also Tschumi + Benoit ) is a Swiss architecture firm in Biel , founded in 1955 by Alain-G. Tschumi was founded, in 1969 Pierre Benoit was added. In the meantime there was a branch office in Soyhières ( Burri + Tschumi + Benoit ), which is now continued by Pascal Burri (born 1965) and partners. The office became known for school and community buildings as well as buildings for the health sector in the Jura and in the Bernese Seeland .

Alain-G. Tschumi

Alain-G. Tschumi ( Alain Gérard Tschumi , born July 8, 1928 in Moutier ; died August 2019 in La Neuveville ) studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1947 to 1952 after attending school in Porrentruy and was then assistant to William Dunkel until 1953 . He then went to Helsinki for two years and worked for Keijo Petäjä and Pentti Ahola . In 1955 he founded his own office, initially with Rodolphe Baumann as a partner. After Baumann left, Pierre Benoit joined in 1969 and became a partner in 1980. From 1976 to 1980 Central President of the BSA , Tschumi received a call to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne in 1980 , where he taught until his retirement in 1993.

Pierre Benoit

Pierre Benoit (born April 13, 1939 in Biel ) studied architecture from 1959 to 1962 at the technical center in West Switzerland in Biel. He then worked abroad for several years; in Paris , Montreal and Vancouver . In 1969 he joined the Tschumis office and became its partner in 1980.

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The primary school building in Cornol, a small school completed in 1965, is an exposed concrete building a work of brutalism ; the vertical walls and the cove-shaped, horizontal ceiling panels structure the building, in which the gym and class wing are L-shaped to one another, creating a linear supporting structure experiences interesting change. The Collège Stockmar in Porrentruy also shows a lot of exposed concrete, combined with red clinker surfaces. The generous traffic areas, which take up almost as much space as the tiered classrooms, serve as traffic zones.

In the 1970s, the Biel State Seminar was created, three steel / glass cubes on a shared platform made of exposed concrete and class wing 2 of the trade school there, a cautiously detailed work closely related to the Solothurn school, for example .

The 1980s found an approach to a classicist-oriented postmodernism , for example in the Sägematt retirement and nursing home in Lengnau or at the secondary school in Porrentruy.

List of works (selection)

  • Primary school , Cornol 1961–65 (Tschumi + Baumann)
  • Parish hall , Sonceboz 1962–65 (Tschumi + Baumann)
  • Collège Stockmar , Porrentruy 1964–66 (Tschumi + Baumann)
  • Catholic Church , Rossemaison 1968 (Tschumi + Baumann)
  • State Seminar , Biel 1969–75 (Tschumi)
  • Trade school , class wing 2, Biel 1969–75 (Tschumi)
  • Residential houses , Cergy-Pontoise 1978 (Tschumi)
  • Retirement and nursing home , Lengnau 1984–88 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • Retirement and nursing home , La Neuveville 1985–91 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • Retirement and nursing home for the chronically ill , Moutiers 1987–90 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • Collège Thurmann , Porrentruy 1987–93 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • Row houses , St-Imier 1988–89 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • La Démocrate , (today Quotidien Jurassien ), printer, Delémont 1988–92 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • Federal Office for Water Management , Biel 1989–96 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • Railway underpass , Delémont 1991–92 (Tschumi + Benoit)
  • Commercial vocational school , 6-fold gymnasium, Biel 1995–97 (Tschumi + Benoit)

literature

  • Hansjürg Schneeberger: Tschumi and Benoit. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 536.
  • Emma Chatelain: Tschumi, Alain-G. (1928-). In: Dictionnaire du Jura. Société jurassienne d'Emulation, October 13, 2005, accessed April 1, 2014 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stéphane Devaux: "L'architecte Alain-G. Tschumi s'est éteint à l'âge de 91 ans " on arcinfo.ch on August 9, 2019, accessed on August 16, 2019 (fr.)
  2. ↑ Short biography. In: Werk, vol. 56, p. 723
  3. ^ NN: work samples from Bern architects and engineers . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 87 , no. 23 , 1967, p. 426 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-69472 . NN: École primaire de Cornol BE . In: Werk . tape 57 , no. 2 , 1970, p. 98 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-82151 .
  4. ↑ Christa Zeller: Swiss architecture guide; Volume 2: Northwestern Switzerland, Jura, Central Plateau. Zurich: Werk Verlag 1996. ISBN 3-909145-12-4 , p. 232.
  5. ^ NN: New buildings for the Biel seminars: Biel State Seminar . In: Werk . tape 63 , no. 7/8 , 1976, p. 496 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-48612 .
  6. ^ NN: Gewerbeschule Biel, new building class wing 2: Architect Alain G. Tschumi . In: Werk . tape 63 , no. 6 , 1976, p. 396 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-48596 .
  7. ^ NN: ATU PRIX 1993: Foundation "Bernese Culture Prize for Architecture, Technology and Environment" . In: Swiss engineer and architect . tape 111 , no. 24 , 1993, pp. 426 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-78197 .
  8. ^ NN: Promotion de la profession d'architecte et développment des concours . In: Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . tape 117 , no. 24 , 1991, pp. 442 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-77672 .