Charles-Edouard Geisendorf

Riksrådsvägen terraced houses , Stockholm 1953–56. State 2014.

Charles-Edouard Geisendorf (born July 16, 1913 in Lancy ; † February 9, 1985 in Cairo ) was a Swiss architect and professor at the ETH Zurich .

Life

Geisendorf studied architecture at the ETH until 1939. With his wife Léonie he had an architecture office in Stockholm from 1945 to 1955, where he also completed a postgraduate degree as an urban planner. In 1956 he received a professorship for design at the ETH Zurich, which he held until his retirement in 1980. One of the first major projects after his return to Switzerland was the Birr housing estate, together with Robert Winkler . There, the structure plan drawn up by Hans Marti for ABB, which at the end of the 1950s had begun to relocate most of the production to the Reuss Valley, initially provided for a workers' town for 15,000 inhabitants, from which the settlement would eventually be included 500 residential units were built, which were large and offered very well-equipped apartments for the time.

For his university, he planned the expansion of the main building in Sempers from 1858, which was carried out in the 1960s and 1970s, leaving the exterior untouched as much as possible, adding extensive modern fixtures to the inner courtyards and creating an annex with the poly terrace . During the renovation of the ETH machine laboratory, a building in Salvisberg from 1935, he carefully handled the key building of Zurich Modernism.

literature

Monika Lauber: Geisendorf, Charles-Edouard In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 208 f.

Web links

Elisabeth Ellenberger: Charles-Edouard Geisendorf. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Works (selection)

Riksrådsvägens radhusområde , terraced housing estate, Stockholm-Bagarmossen, 1953–56 (with Léonie Geisendorf)
In den Wyden , Grosssiedlung, Birr-Lupfig, 1962–67 (with Robert Winkler)
ETH main building , renovation, 1965–78
ETH machine laboratory, renovation, 1967–70

supporting documents

↑ According to the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, born in Lancy, legal domicile in Chancy. The Swiss Architects' Dictionary names Chancey GE (sic!)
↑ Hans Marti: The urban development in the Birrfeld . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 78 , no. 8 , 1960, pp. 127 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-64841 .
↑ «The situation on the labor market is so tense that a factory in the countryside has to offer its workers not only money but also comfortable urban housing. Factory-owned apartments are being built at a level on which speculation cannot compete. »LB: Brown Boveri housing estate" In den Wyden "in Birr . In: Werk . tape 49 , no. 3 , 1962, pp. 89 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-38396 .

personal data
SURNAME	Geisendorf, Charles-Edouard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss architect and university professor at the ETH Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH	July 16, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lancy
DATE OF DEATH	February 9, 1985
Place of death	Cairo

[1] According to the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland, born in Lancy, legal domicile in Chancy. The Swiss Architects' Dictionary names Chancey GE (sic!)

[2] Hans Marti: The urban development in the Birrfeld . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 78 , no. 8 , 1960, pp. 127 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-64841 .

[3] «The situation on the labor market is so tense that a factory in the countryside has to offer its workers not only money but also comfortable urban housing. Factory-owned apartments are being built at a level on which speculation cannot compete. »LB: Brown Boveri housing estate" In den Wyden "in Birr . In: Werk . tape 49 , no. 3 , 1962, pp. 89 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-38396 .