Augusto Jäggli

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Augusto Jäggli (born January 21, 1911 in Locarno ; † August 1, 1999 in Massagno ) was a Swiss architect .

education

Jäggli obtained his architecture diploma in 1933 at the ETH Zurich from OR Salvisberg . As early as 1932 he had taken part in the competition for the public bathing establishment in Bellinzona and received third prize, but because he could not find a job in Ticino, he went to Rome to see Marcello Piacentini and was confronted with an architectural conception that both him and the - Closed in Berlin in 1933 - influenced the Bauhaus and its teacher Salvisberg. In 1935 he set up his own office in Bellinzona.

Professional biography

From the late 1930s onwards, Jäggli received a number of major public contracts in hospital and school building, for radio and television, as well as representative commercial buildings for private clients, including a hotel and a bank building. The most conspicuous and perhaps his main work is the Società bancaria Ticinese , a bank building in the old town of Bellinzona, which, with its steel / glass architecture, the offset roof and the deeply cut entrance, is “worthy” of the series of historically grown ones Houses places.

Jäggli, with Rino Tami and Alberto Camenzind , is recognized as one of the pioneers of Ticino architecture of the 1950s and 1960s.

Works (selection)

  • Ospedale neuropsichiatrico , annex, Mendrisio 1937
  • Ospedale San Giovanni , Bellinzona, 1940
  • Nuove scuole comunali , Giubiasco, 1951
  • Hotel Excelsior , Lugano, 1959
  • Sede della Società bancaria Ticinese , Bellinzona, 1960
  • Radio della Svizzera Italiana , Lugano, 1964 (with Rino Tami and Alberto Camenzind )
  • La Stampa prison , Lugano, 1965
  • Società impresari costruttori , seat of the contractors, Bellinzona, 1966
  • Scuole consortili , cooperative schools , Gerra Piano, 1967
  • Centro invalidi , disabled facility , Gerra Piano 1972
  • Studi televisi , TSI television studio, 1976

literature

  • Paolo Fumagalli: Augusto Jäggli . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. P. 295 f. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
  • Catalog of works (PDF; 99 kB) at the Fondazione Archivi Architetti Ticinesi (also estate).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Christa Zeller: Swiss architecture guide; Volume 3: Western Switzerland, Valais, Ticino. Zurich: Werk Verlag 1996. p. 242. ISBN 3-909145-13-2
  2. ^ Paolo Fumagalli: La "città nuova" by Augusto Jäggli . In: Archi - rivista svizzera di architettura, ingegneria e urbanistica (1999) issue 5, p. 44, doi : 10.5169 / seals-131709

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personal data
SURNAME Jäggli, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Locarno
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1999
Place of death Lugano