Anton Higi

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Guthirt Church, Zurich-Wipkingen, 1922–1923
Brother Klaus Church, Zurich-Unterstrass, 1932–1933
St. Leodegar Church, Birmenstorf AG, 1934–1935
St. Martin Church, Zurich-Fluntern, 1938–1939

Anton Higi (born February 15, 1885 in Zurich ; † September 25, 1951 in Orselina ) was a Swiss architect and from 1938 to 1946 city ​​councilor of Zurich. With his church buildings in the Zurich region, he played a key role in shaping modern Catholic church building.

life and work

Anton Higi studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and graduated in 1907 with a diploma. After initial experience as an architect with Professor August Thiersch in Munich and at the Zurich Cantonal Building Authority, he worked from 1912 to 1914 in the architectural office of Robert Curjel and Karl Moser , which was responsible for the two churches of St. Anton (Zurich-Hottingen) and St. Josef (Zurich Industrial Quarter) in Switzerland was able to realize two first public contracts. Higi played a key role in the construction of St. Josef as a site manager.

From 1914 to 1925, Anton Higi ran his own architectural office together with Otto Gschwind. At this time, with the construction of the Guthirt Church (Zurich-Wipkingen) , Anton Higi's first own church was built. After Otto Gschwind left, Anton Higi continued to run the architecture office alone until 1938.

Anton Higi was also institutionally committed to modern Catholic church building. In 1924 he was a founding member of the Swiss St. Luke Society, in which he worked as a member of the board until 1938, and at times also as a secretary.

In 1938 Anton Higi was elected to the city council of Zurich as a representative of the CVP , where he headed the police department. That is why Anton Higi suspended his work as an architect until 1946. After that, he and his son Karl Higi founded a joint architecture office, which was continued by Karl Higi after the death of Anton Higi.

He found his final resting place in the Nordheim cemetery in Zurich .

Buildings (selection)

As an architect, Anton Higi realized numerous settlements, apartment buildings, villas and single-family houses.

  • 1912–1913: Construction management at St. Josef Church in Zurich's industrial quarter
  • 1922–1923: Guthirt Church , Zurich-Wipkingen
  • 1924: Tower of the catholic church Thalwil
  • 1924–1926: “In the Iron Age” settlement, Zurich, one of the first garden settlements , in 1991 a listed building
  • 1927: Hirschengraben 66 Catholic Girls School, Zurich (today the seat of the Vicariate General for the cantons of Zurich and Glarus as well as the seat of the Roman Catholic Central Commission of the Canton of Zurich)
  • 1932: Institute of the Sisters of the Holy Cross , Menzingen, Zug, construction of a new monastery wing
  • 1932–1933: Brother Klaus Church , Zurich-Unterstrass
  • 1933–1934: St. Josef Church , Horgen
  • 1934: Monikaheim, Zurich (home for young mothers with children, today home for children of preschool age and accompanied living for mother and child)
  • 1934–1935 Church of St. Leodegar, Birmenstorf AG
  • 1935 AKI Catholic Academic House, Hirschengraben 86, Zurich (today the seat of the Catholic university community in Zurich and the Jesuit branch in Zurich)
  • 1938 plans for the first church of the Holy Spirit , Zurich-Höngg (execution by Karl Strobel, 1971 replaced by a new building of son Charles Higi)
  • 1938–1939 Church of St. Martin, Zurich-Fluntern
  • 1947–1949 settlement in der Ey (with Karl Higi and Rudolf Pfister; 1950 award for good buildings from the city of Zurich)
  • 1949–1950: PTT building in Rapperswil (with Karl Higi and architect Schäfer)
  • 1951 plans for the new construction of the monastery church of the Cistercians in Magdenau SG (with Karl Higi)

Honors

  • In the Affoltern district of Zurich , a street is named after Anton Higi.

literature

  • Elisabeth Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural dictionary of Switzerland. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 .
  • Fabrizio Brentini: The Catholic Church of St. Martin in Zurich-Fluntern. Society for Swiss Art History, Bern 2013 (form).

estate

  • Estate fragment in the gta archive, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture gta at ETH Zurich

Web links

Commons : Anton Higi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fabrizio Brentini. Building for the Church. Catholic church building of the 20th century in Switzerland. Edition SSL 1994, p. 288.
  2. ↑ See website of the Swiss St. Luke Society. Accessed on July 18, 2013
  3. ↑ Brentini: The Catholic Church of St. Martin in Zurich-Fluntern. P. 15.
  4. ^ Fabrizio Brentini. Building for the Church. Catholic church building of the 20th century in Switzerland. Edition SSL 1994, p. 288.
  5. ↑ The complete list of buildings can be viewed in the gta archive, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture gta of the EHT Zurich.
  6. ↑ See website of the Vicariate General Zurich. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  7. ↑ See website of the Monikaheim Zurich. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  8. ↑ See website of the AKI Zurich. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ See website of the building cooperative, section Eyhof and In der Ey. ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 18, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schoenheim.ch
personal data
SURNAME Higi, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1951
Place of death Orselina