Benjamin Recordon

Benjamin Recordon

Benjamin Recordon (born September 2, 1845 in Vevey ; † July 19, 1938 there ; authorized to reside in Rances and Yverdon-les-Bains , honorary citizen of Zurich from 1905 ) was a Swiss architect .

Benjamin Recordon attended the trade school in Basel after primary school , and at the same time he received drawing lessons from Ludwig Adam Kelterborn . From 1865 to 1868 he studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich . After graduating, he worked with Léo Châtelain and Gottfried Semper, among others . He settled in Vevey as an architect in 1874 after receiving the contract to build the secondary school for girls in his hometown, which was completed in 1877. From 1881 to 1886 he built what was then the federal court, the Palais de Justice de Montbenon in Lausanne , which today functions as a district court. During this time, Recordon also moved its office to Lausanne. From 1881 to 1890 he was also an associate professor for architecture and stereotomy at the Académie de Lausanne there . In 1890 he was appointed professor of civil engineering at the ETH Zurich, where he taught until 1916. Recordon built here among other things the old machine laboratory of the ETH (1897), as well as the French Reformed Church in Hottingen.

literature

The Palais de Justice, built between 1881 and 1889

• Dave Lüthi: Recordon, Benjamin In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 437 f.
• NN: Recordon, Benjamin . In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande . tape 78 , no. 17 , 1938, pp. 236 f . ( Online ).

Web links

• Claire Huguenin: Recordon, Benjamin. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .