Emil Hostettler

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Emil Hostettler (* 24. September 1887 in Rüschegg ; † 17th November 1972 in Bern ) was a Swiss architect of modernity .

After studying mathematics from 1906 to 1908 at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich , Hostettler switched to architecture, where he graduated in 1911. He first worked for Franz Trachsel in Bern before setting up his own office in 1923. In the meantime he ran it together with Hans Pfander in the mid-1920s.

In addition to a few residential buildings, he then came third in the nationwide competition for the new building of the Swiss National Library in Bern; the elaboration and planning was then done by all three top-class architects; Hostettler became known to a broader specialist audience through this early large-scale modern building in Switzerland.

While Hostettler, for example , remained committed to the modern with the buildings for the Dählhölzli zoo , which was rebuilt and expanded by Andreas Furrer from 1985-88 , he built the Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Institute on Casinoplatz in the city center of Bern, for example. After the Second World War, he was involved for a long time, also with the submission of plans, for the relocation of the main train station to Laupenstrasse, a project that received strong public support but ultimately failed in 1956.

Hostettler was a member of both the BSA and the SIA .

Works

  • Row of rental houses in Montbijousstr , Bern, 1926, with Hans Pfander
  • Swiss National Library 1929–31, with Alfred Oeschger and Josef Kaufmann
  • Gfeller House , Bern, 1931
  • Dählhölzli Zoo , Bern, various buildings, 1936–37
  • Swiss Life Insurance and Pension Fund , 1939–40
  • PTT facility in Engehalde , Bern, 1948–51, with Henri Daxelhofer and Peter Indermühle
  • Thorberg prison , Krauchthal, custody wing, 1953
  • Thorberg prison , Krauchthal, chapel, 1954

literature

  • Magdalena Schindler: Emil Hostettler. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Werk Volume 14 (1927) Issue 11, P. XXVII
  2. ↑ The Swiss National Library in Bern. In: The work. Volume 18 (1931) Issue 11, pp. 321-351.
personal data
SURNAME Hostettler, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Rüschegg
DATE OF DEATH 17th November 1972
Place of death Bern