Bruno Giacometti

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Bruno Giacometti (born August 24, 1907 in Borgonovo near Stampa , now part of Bregaglia ; † March 21, 2012 in Zollikon ) was a Swiss architect . Among other things, he played a key role in the construction of the Hallenstadion in Zurich and was the architect of the Uster town hall .

Life

Bruno Giacometti grew up in Stampa in Bergell in southern Graubünden as the youngest of four children of the painter Giovanni Giacometti and his wife Annetta Stampa (1871–1964). His godfather was the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler . The eldest brother Alberto Giacometti achieved world fame with his sculptures, drawings and paintings.

From 1926 to 1930 he studied architecture at the ETH Zurich , after which he worked in Karl Egender's architecture office .

Between 1955 and 1965, Bruno Giacometti participated in the design of several exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zürich and in the establishment of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation, which is located in the Kunsthaus. Alberto Giacometti's work was given its own space in the Kunsthaus due to a gift from Bruno Giacometti, who together with his wife Odette gave the Alberto Giacometti Foundation two large groups of works containing sculptures, oil paintings and drawings by his brother. Another donation contained 75 original plasters and 15 bronze sculptures.

Most important buildings

Stampa schoolhouse
Employee settlement of the Bergell power plants near Castasegna

The most important buildings, which he realized mainly in the cantons of Zurich and Graubünden from 1940 on, include a number of single-family houses, residential areas, school and community centers, post offices, hospitals and exhibition buildings. A selection of the most important works:

  • Hallenstadion , Zurich (collaboration in the Egender office)
  • Textile department, Swiss National Exhibition, Zurich , 1939 (worked in the Egender office)
  • Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1951/52)
  • Housing estates in Bergell for the staff of the Bergell power plants (City of Zurich) in Castasegna (“Brentan” settlement) and in Vicosoprano , Stampa schoolhouse, Maloja post office .
  • Zurich: “Hygiene Institute” (preventive medicine), extension for the Kunsthaus Zurich.
  • Town house, Uster
  • District Hospital , Dielsdorf
  • first ecumenical church in Switzerland on the area of ​​the Epi-Klinik Zurich (1967–71)
  • Bündner Naturmuseum , Chur; one of his last buildings

In 1945 he built a doctor's house with practice and living space at Bahnstrasse 33 in Uster. The building impresses with its T-shaped floor plan, which served as a model for the Uster town house. The Uster townhouse complex, with its generous outdoor spaces, has been included in the inventory of Uster buildings worthy of protection.

Bruno Giacometti achieved his international breakthrough with his winning competition project for the construction of the Swiss pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 1951/52. For Giacometti, the holistic recording of a building task meant that the form finding had to be linked to the function that a building had to fulfill.

Buildings of Giacometti

  • Giacometti's house in Zollikon

  • Uster town house

  • Church of the Epi-Klinik in Zurich

  • Center Boldern, Männedorf

Honors

literature

Web links

Commons : Bruno Giacometti  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Architect and patron of the arts Bruno Giacometti died Online article by Südostschweiz from March 21, 2012
  2. ↑ On the death of the architect Bruno Giacometti ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Giacometti, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Borgonovo (today a district of Stampa ), Graubünden
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2012
Place of death Zollikon