Benedikt Huber

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Reformed Church in Bischofszell, 1968
Church of St. Mauritius Regensdorf ZH, 1973–1974
Reformed Church in Suteracher, 1985
One of the temporary drawing room buildings on the Hönggerberg.

Benedikt Huber (born March 25, 1928 in Basel ; † March 9, 2019 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect , was professor of urban development and spatial planning at the ETH Zurich and at the TU Dresden , author of publications on urban development and architectural theory, editor of Werk magazine and head of publishing for the magazines SI + A and IAS.

life and career

After studying architecture at the ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1952, Huber founded an architecture office in Zurich in 1954 together with his wife Martha Huber-Villiger. The office had emerged through a large number of church buildings by the Reformed Church and through social institutions throughout German-speaking Switzerland and Germany. His designs were often characterized by the simple and stringent implementation of a clear design idea. For the church in Suteracher and for the temporary work on the Hönggerberg, he was awarded the prize for good buildings by the city of Zurich, for the renovation of his parents' house in Riehen, the Huber house, in 1930 as an icon of New Building by Paul Artaria and Hans Schmidt established, it received an award from the Basel homeland security in 1993.

His teaching activities also resulted from his occupation with the design of public spaces. From 1973 until his retirement in 1993 he was a full professor of urban development and spatial planning at the ETH, and in 1985 he was a visiting professor at the TU Dresden. Huber has written an extensive body of work, in addition to his frequently published teaching aids on urban planning, these were other urban planning and architectural theory writings. At the beginning of his career he was the chief editor of the journal Werk from 1955 to 1961 and after his retirement he was the publishing director of the journals SI + A and IAS. He was one of the founding members of the Zurich Working Group for Urban Development (ZAS), which from 1959 got involved in the urban development discussion in Zurich with actions and counter-proposals to official planning, for example in the planning of the Sihl area in Zurich.

Selection of works

  • Printing works , Zurich 1955
  • Residential house , Oberwil 1956
  • Thomaskirche , Basel 1957
  • Residential house , Schaffhausen 1957
  • Double house , Arlesheim 1958
  • Collector's villa , Muzzano 1961
  • Residential house group , Münchenstein 1961
  • Church , Lohn-Ammansegg 1962
  • Lohn cemetery , Solothurn 1962
  • Reconstruction of the town church , Glarus 1964
  • Tituskirche , Basel 1964
  • Church , Kriegstetten 1964
  • Reformed Church Glashütten , Murgenthal 1964
  • Irchel tram station , Zurich 1965
  • Reformed Church , Hamburg-Altona 1966
  • Rosenhofplatz with Max Frisch Fountain, Zurich 1967
  • Church on the Mutschellen 1968–70
  • Evangelical Johanneskirche , Bischofszell 1968–70
  • Reformed Church , Rotkreuz 1968–70
  • Cemetery building , Mettmenstetten 1970
  • Volksbildungsheim , Herzberg 1971
  • Community center , Wiescheid near Düsseldorf 1971
  • Gardening, apartments, shops , Dättwil 1972
  • Altenzentrum , Rüttenscheid 1972
  • Schoolhouse, kindergarten, parish hall , Murgenthal-Riken 1972
  • Church center , Zons near Cologne 1973
  • Church , Bubendorf 1973
  • Church and Parish Center St. Mauritius , Regensdorf 1973–1974
  • Gartenstrasse housing estate , Adliswil 1974
  • Church center , Jonah 1975
  • Church , Kradolf 1975
  • Church , Witikon, renovation 1975
  • Pedestrian promenade at Schanzengraben , Zurich 1975
  • Church center , Kehrsatz 1976
  • Community center , Merl near Bonn 1976
  • Retirement home , Niederurnen 1977
  • Redesign of Paradeplatz , Zurich 1977
  • Zurich-Albisrieden library for the blind , 1978
  • Margarethenhöhe , retirement and nursing home, Essen 1978, (with Wolfgang Müller-Zantop)
  • Apartments for the elderly , Bad Kreuznach 1979
  • Retirement and nursing home , Urdorf 1981
  • Tram stop ETH Zentrum , Zurich 1981
  • Retirement home , Essen-Bergeborbeck, 1983
  • Retirement home , Essen-Karnap, 1983
  • Suteracher Church , Zurich-Altstetten 1985
  • Drawing rooms of the ETH , provisional, Zurich, ETH Hönggerberg 1987 (with Atelier 3, R. Bolli and P. Gerber)
  • Library for the blind and visually impaired, printing and publishing house , Zurich-Albisrieden 1988 (with Atelier 3, R. Bolli and P. Gerber)
  • Retirement and nursing home , Niederurnen, 1991
  • Restoration of the Huber house , Arch. Artaria and Schmidt, Riehen BS, 1993

Fonts

  • (with Jean-Claude Steinegger, editor): Jean Prouvé : Architecture from the factory. Artemis: Zurich 1971
  • Spatial planning and urban development. Teaching materials for local, regional and state planning, Vieweg + Teubner, Wiesbaden 1994
  • (with Hans Boesch ): The pedestrian in the settlement. vdf, Verlag der Fachvereine, Zurich 1993
  • (with Karin R. Lischner, Hans Boesch and Christian Süsstrunk): Settlement structure and outside space . vdf, Verlag der Fachvereine, Zurich 1993
  • The city of new building, projects and theories by Hans Schmidt. vdf, Verlag der Fachvereine, Zurich 1993
  • The Huber house in Riehen: built in 1929 by the architects Artaria & Schmidt - materials, references and personal details on the history of the building. Zurich: GTA Verlag 2004
  • (Editor): Watakushi no Tōkyō: 1953/2013 = My Tokyo. Texts by various authors, photos by Martha Villiger-Huber and Naomi Hanakata, edition esefeld & traub, Stuttgart 2013

literature

  • Barbara Zibell : Benedikt Huber. Article in: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser: Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
  • Caspar Reinhart: Benedikt Huber celebrates . In: Swiss engineer and architect . tape 116 , no. 12 , 1998, pp. 187 f . ( Online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Protestant Church in Bischofszell TG. In: Werk, Vol. 56 Issue 3, Zurich 1969, pp. 174–176.
  2. ↑ Work material. In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen [Swiss edition], Vol. 75 Issue 3, Zurich 1988, 4 pp.
  3. ↑ Hubeli, Ernst: Provisions, counter images: Provisional extension for drawing rooms at the ETH-Hönggerberg In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, Vol. 75 Issue 5, Zurich 1988, pp. 14–15, Werk-Material pp. 1–4
  4. ↑ Obituary swiss-architects.com
personal data
SURNAME Huber, Benedict
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2019
Place of death Zurich