Carl Mossdorf (architect)

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Carl Mossdorf (born February 24, 1901 in Zurich ; died October 29, 1969 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss architect who, as a representative of New Building and later of post-war modernism, helped shape Lucerne's building history.

Education and career

Carl Mossdorf was the grandson of Gustav Mossdorf and the son of the Lucerne city architect Karl Mossdorf-Robbiani. He obtained the technical Matura at the Cantonal School of Lucerne and studied from 1920 at the ETH Zurich , where he graduated in 1924, with a semester abroad at the Technical University of Munich (1921). From 1925 to 1926 he was employed in Leipzig by his relative Hermann Mossdorf. Back in Switzerland, he initially worked in various Zurich offices and shared an office with Hans-Robert Beck.

In 1933, with the order for the Tribschen commercial building, he was able to set up his own business in Lucerne. This house, which has been remodeled today, was one of the most consistent examples of modernism in Switzerland with its separation of pillars and room closure, its flush-fitting ribbon windows and its arcade access. An arcade access also characterizes the "Geissmatt" housing estate, a four-row building whose apartments are strictly repetitively based on a single type. In addition, detached houses were built in the Lucerne quarters of Bramberg, Wesemlin, Steinhof and Geissenstein during this period.

In 1938 he built the Rothenburg depot building for the Sempach agricultural cooperative as an architectural task in keeping with the modern age . Here, as in the Geissmatt housing estate, he was by no means planning a flat roof, but simple saddle roofs.

At the end of the 1940s the Wagenhalle was built, a tram depot on Eschenstrasse in Lucerne with technically striking gate fronts and then the central school building of Emmenbrücke, which he won after a two-stage competition. In the 1950s, Mossdorf and four other architecture firms built one of the large industrial buildings of its era, the Schindler elevator factory in Ebikon. In 1962 he handed the office over to his younger brother Gustav.

Works (selection)

  • Tribschen commercial building , Lucerne 1933
  • Geissmatt settlement , Lucerne 1935–1936
  • Depot building , Rothenburg 1938 (demolished)
  • Reformed Church , Kriens 1939
  • Wagenhalle , Lucerne 1947
  • Gersag school house , Emmen 1951–1953
  • Schindler elevator factory , Ebikon 1953–1957 (working group with Rohn , Gattiker , Weideli and Zwicky )
  • Motor vehicle inspection , Kriens 1958–1960 (with Gisbert Meyer)
  • Swiss Volksbank , Lucerne 1959

literature

  • Tomaso Zanoni: Mossdorf, Carl. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 390.
  • Tomaso Zanoni: Carl Mossdorf. In: Hannes Ineichen, Tomaso Zanoni: Lucerne architects. Architecture and urban development in the canton of Lucerne 1920–1960. Verlag Werk, Zurich / Bern 1985, ISBN 3-909 145-06-X , p. 13 ff.
  • NN: Carl Mossdorf (Nekrolog) . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 88 , no. 2 , 1970, p. 29 f . ( e-periodica.ch ).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ On the occasion of an excursion, ef writes about this: «Here, too, we were attracted by the natural and unpretentious nature of the buildings (they don't even have a flat roof!) And once again we wondered whether the problem of church building could not be so simple, direct and of course could tackle. " weiterbau, issue 3, special issue in: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, vol. 106 no. 1, July 6, 1935, p. 24 online
  2. ↑ NN: The new car hall for the Lucerne city transport company . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 66 , no. 43 , 1948, pp. 591-596 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-56817 .
  3. ^ NN: Central school building with gymnastics and bathing facilities in Emmenbrücke, Canton Lucerne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 66 , no. 35 , 1948, pp. 488 ( online ).
  4. ^ NN: The new Schindler plant in Ebikon . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 77 , no. 35 , 1959, pp. 488 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-84209 .
personal data
SURNAME Mossdorf, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH 29th October 1969
Place of death Lucerne