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Alfons Wiederkehr (born December 16, 1915 in Rudolfstetten ; died July 24, 1985 in Zug ) was a Swiss architect . Together with Leo Hafner, he ran an architecture office in Zug, which became important for his post-war modern buildings in central Switzerland, especially in the canton of Zug .

Life

Alfons Wiederkehr learned the profession of structural draftsman from Keizer and Bracher from 1933 to 1937 . He was then employed there until 1948, when he started his own business with the young Hafner who had just finished college. As a employed architect, he took further training in construction engineering at the Technikum Biel , and he undertook extensive educational trips to Europe and the Middle East . During the Second World War he was engaged in the construction of defensive structures in Aargau and in the Swiss Reduit as part of his active service .

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The office that he ran together with Hafner became one of the leading Zug offices in post-war modernism, with over a hundred buildings, some of them award-winning. In the office, Wiederkehr was primarily responsible for the administrative and commercial part.

→ Main article : Leo Hafner

Works (selection)

• Zuger Kantonalbank , Zug, competition 1949, executed 1955–58
• Aarau Children's Hospital , Aarau, competition 1951, executed 1953–55
• Sternmatt secondary school , Baar, competition 1951, executed 1955–57
• Agricultural school , Cham, competition 1951, implementation 1970
• Bossard House , Zug 1954
• Rossel House , Baar 1954–55
• Dalcher House , Zug 1955
• Teachers' seminar Bernarda , Menzingen, project 1954, carried out 1955–58
• Primary school , Rudolfstetten, competition 1956, executed 1958–59
• Mito gas station , Sihlbrugg 1957–59
• Primary school , Merenschwand, competition 1957, execution 1960–62
• Graf House , Aeugst 1958
• Teachers' seminar St. Michael , Zug, competition 1958, execution 1959–61
• Mühlemann House , Steinhausen 1960
• Bernhart House , Zug 1961
• Guthirt parish hall , Zug, competition 1960, execution 1962–63
• Houses U. and G. Theiler , Zug 1961
• Meyer-Hegi House , Zug 1961–62
• Fridbach , residential development, Zug, competition 1961, executed 1965–68
• Cantonal school Luegeten , Zug, competition 1962, execution 1971–75
• Kirchmatt school building , Zug, project 1962, execution 1963–67
• Herti , 19 row single-family houses, Zug 1963–64
• Porto Cristo Novo , holiday home development, Mallorca 1964–68
• Loretohöhe , residential development, Zug 1973–75
• Fridbach , residential development, Zug, competition 1961, executed 1965–68
• Herti II , cooperative housing estate, Zug 1966–68
• St. Johannes , Church Center, Zug, competition 1968, carried out 1968–71
• Swiss Bank Corporation , Zug, competition 1968, execution 1980–84
• Pollems House , Zug 1969–70
• Commercial bank , headquarters, Baden 1969–72
• Herti III , high-rise condominiums, Zug 1976–77

literature

• Nicole Pfister: Hafner and Wiederkehr . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 248 f.