Albert Heinrich Steiner

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The urban housing estate Heiligfeld with the first residential high-rise buildings in Zurich, 1953–55

Albert Heinrich Steiner (born July 26, 1905 in Zurich ; † September 21, 1996 in Zollikon ), reformed , resident in Zurich, was a Swiss architect , urban planner , professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and Zurich's city architect.

Life

Albert Heinrich Steiner, son of the doctor Albert Steiner and Dora nee Zweifel, studied at the ETH in Zurich from 1924 after graduating from high school , then moved to the Technical University of Munich in 1926 , where he graduated from Theodor Fischer in 1929. In 1928 he had also completed an internship with Oswald Bieber in Munich . After graduating, he took up a position at Otto Rudolf Salvisberg , working in both his Zurich and Bern offices. In 1933 he founded his own architectural office in Zurich, which he ran until 1957. In 1943, Albert Heinrich Steiner was elected Zurich's city ​​architect , an office he held until 1957. As early as 1952 he was offered a position at the Technical University of Munich, which he refused, and in 1957 he was given the professorship for architecture and urban planning at the ETH, a position he held until 1971. After his retirement, he continued to work as a private architect into old age.

Even as a private architect, Steiner dealt with the conversion and renovation of old houses, for example the church in Obfelden (1934) or the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer House in Kilchberg (1936). In 1937 he won a competition to design the shores of Lake Zurich . In Obfelden he built a secondary school from 1939-40. During the Second World War, under the conditions of the wartime economy, the school building on the Kornhausbrücke (1941–43) and after the war the Bachtobel (1946–47) and Probstei (1946–51) school buildings were built. At the beginning of the 1950s he built the Heiligfeld settlement on the Letzigraben.

As a city architect, Steiner developed the first uniform building code with a zoning plan in the city of Zurich, which was passed by the city council in 1946, which laid the basis for the creation of new residential areas and the planned settlement of industry and the locations of public facilities. The ‹Office for Old Town Redevelopment› created by him in 1945 met the need for measures in the old town, which had been in decline since the walls were razed in 1832, and secured the existence of the historic village centers of the incorporated districts. Steiner's work marked the beginning of a renovation of the old town, which wanted to implement a thoroughgoing renovation based on the traditional town plan. An approach that was replaced in 1958 at the latest by the goal of preserving the old building fabric as far as possible, when the 'Specialist Office for Scientific Monument Preservation' was created in Zurich.

Since 1957 he has been drafting the plans for the overall expansion of the university on the Hönggerberg , the first steps of which he implemented. Albert Heinrich Steiner, a member of the Federation of Swiss Architects (BSA) and the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects (SIA) , has repeatedly been called in as an expert on the construction plans of German cities.

Steiner, who was married to Margarethe Olga, née Stockar, died in 1996 at the age of 91 in Zollikon. His office estate was taken over by the gta archive in January 1998 . The Albert Steiner Garden named after him on the ETH campus is in the planning stage. The couple had three sons.

Works (selection)

  • Secondary school , Obfelden , 1939–40
  • Kornhausbrücke school building , Zurich, 1941–43
  • Bachtobel school building , Zurich, 1946–47
  • Probstei school building , Zurich, 1946–51
  • Markuskirche , Reformed Church Seebach, Zurich, 1946–48
  • Heiligfeld , urban housing estate, Zurich, 1953–55
  • ETHZ-Hönggerberg , overall planning and first construction phase, 1957–84
  • Holiday home , Bichelsee-Brenngrüti , 1962
  • Billrothstrasse , Residential building, Zurich, 1963
  • Nordheim Crematorium , Zurich, 1963–67, 1974–93

literature

  • Werner Schuder (Hrsg.): Kürschner's German learned calendar . Volume 3, 13th edition, De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980, ISBN 3-11-007434-6 , page 3809.
  • Pietro Maggi: Steiner, Albert Heinrich. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . Page 509 f.
  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, Albert Heinrich Steiner, Werner Oechslin (Eds.): Albert Heinrich Steiner: Architect, Urban Planner, Teacher, In: Documents on modern Swiss architecture, GTA Verlag, Zurich, 2001
  • Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Werner Oechslin (Ed.): University City Zürich: Buildings for the ETH 1855–2005, GTA Verlag, Zürich, 2005, ISBN 3-85676-154-3 .
  • Katja Hasche: “More Campus than City”, In: Tec 21, Vol .: 132, No 51/52, 2006, page 4 f.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Steiner, AH: Reconstruction of the church in Obfelden . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 103 , no. 3 , 1934, pp. 35 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-83145 .
  2. ^ AH Steiner: Reconstruction of the CF Meyer house in Kilchberg: Arch. AH Steiner, Zurich . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 108 , no. 8 , 1936, pp. 84–85 and 2 plates , doi : 10.5169 / seals-48357 .
  3. ^ AR: The Letzigraben-Heiligfeld development in Zurich . In: The work . tape 43 , no. 1 , 1956, pp. 1-7 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-33248 .
  4. ↑ Dölf Wild: A political issue 50 years ago. The foundation of the City of Zurich Archeology and Monument Preservation. Ed .: City of Zurich, Building Construction Department. Zurich 2009 ( stadt-zuerich.ch ).
personal data
SURNAME Steiner, Albert Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1996
Place of death Zollikon