Denis Honegger

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Denis Honegger (born October 13, 1907 in Adrianople ; † August 27, 1981 in Monaco ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Denis Honegger was born on October 13, 1907 as the son of an engineer in Adrianople, today's Edirne. After graduating from schools in Zurich , he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in 1923 and became a student of Auguste Perret in the Atelier du Palais de Bois in Paris in 1924 and of Le Corbusier in Geneva in 1926 . From 1927 to 1932 Honegger worked as a construction manager at Auguste Perret, then at Baudoin & Lods in Paris. Denis Honegger founded his own office in Paris in 1934, and in 1937 he shared an office with Fernand Dumas in Freiburg . From 1943 to 1946 he taught as a professor at the École d'Architecture in Geneva and at the Technikum in Freiburg, after 1945 he again had an office in Paris. Honegger's main work is the Miséricorde University in Freiburg, built between 1937 and 1942 together with Fernand Dumas and the engineers Alexandre Sarrasin , Henri Gicot and Beda Hefti , which triggered different reactions with its skeleton construction in exposed concrete .

Other notable buildings

  • The University of Geneva Chemical Institute , 1943–1950
  • Christ Roi Church with two residential towers in Freiburg , 1946–1955
  • Center technique de l'horlogerie in Besançon , 1960

literature

  • Christoph Allenspach: University of Miséricorde in Freiburg , 1984
  • Christoph Allenspach: Denis Honegger . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. P. 274 f. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2

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personal data
SURNAME Honegger, Denis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Adrianople
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1981
Place of death Monaco