Bernhard Furrer

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Bernhard Furrer (born December 12, 1943 in St. Gallen ; citizen of Bern, civic community ) is a Swiss architect and preservationist .

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Furrer obtained his diploma as an architect in 1968 and his doctorate in 1996 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich . After lengthy stays abroad in Finland (collaboration with Professor Heikki Siren) and Tunisia (Professor of Architecture at the École nationale d'ingénieurs de Tunis ), he ran his own architectural office; In addition to major restoration projects, he realized several new buildings.

From 1979 to 2006 he was head of the preservation of monuments in the city of Bern . He did pioneering work in the comprehensive inventory of the building stock and in the research and monument preservation supervision of buildings from the interwar and post-war period. He was also responsible for the candidacy of the old town of Bern for the UNESCO list of world cultural heritage; after admission he took on responsibility for management and care. From 1997 to 2008 he was President of the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments. The commission, working on behalf of the Federal Office of Culture , advises the Federal Council on fundamental issues and prepares reports on particularly sensitive or controversial projects that affect architectural monuments throughout Switzerland. On his initiative and under his direction, the “Guidelines for the Preservation of Monuments in Switzerland” (Zurich 2007) were created. From 2000 to 2012 he was professor at the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio and holder of the chair «Recupero, Restauro, Trasformazione». The basic course in monument preservation, which is compulsory for all students, imparted the basics of dealing with historical building fabric, starting from deontological considerations through to practice-oriented information on the individual trades. Furrer worked as an accompanying professor in numerous design studios. Furrer has been working as a freelance architect since 2007. Within architectural communities, he was involved in projects for the restoration and expansion of architectural monuments. As a federal expert, he accompanies important restorations in Switzerland. He was deputy chairman of the Berlin State Monument Council. Within the ICOMOS Germany monitoring group, he accompanies the “Berlin Modernist Settlements”, the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart and the Reichenau Island ; for ICOMOS international he takes on mandates for the professional assessment of candidacies or as part of reactive monitoring .

Bernhard Furrer is married to Verena Furrer-Lehmann, project manager and politician, and has two daughters.

literature

  • Jürg Schweizer: On the resignation of Bernhard Furrer as preservationist for the city of Bern , In: Nike Bulletin vol. 22 (2007), No. 3, p. 14.

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SURNAME Furrer, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and monument conservator
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen