Emil Vogt (architect)

Monopolies and Metropolis, 1899, in the background the Waldstätterhof by the same architect.

Emil Vogt (* July 2, 1863 in Lucerne ; † August 7, 1936 there ) was a Swiss architect who was particularly successful in hotel construction of his time and implemented innovations there, such as the introduction of the apartment system .

Education and professional life

The son of a building materials dealer completed his studies, which he completed from 1882 to 1886 at the ETH Zurich , with a diploma under Friedrich Bluntschli . He got his first employment with Gustav Gull in Zurich as a construction manager for the main post office building in Lucerne, as well as in the offices of Othmar Schnyder and Paul Segesser von Brunegg in Lucerne, also during a stay abroad in Milan, where he was Citterio from 1888 to 1891 worked. He then opened his own office in Lucerne.

From the mid-1890s, Vogt managed to establish himself in the field of hotel planning, a branch of architecture that experienced a real boom in Lucerne and around Lake Lucerne before the turn of the century until the Swiss hotel building ban in 1915. The start of his career was possibly given the sudden death of his former employer Segesser in 1897, whose planning for the Hotel Metropol he continued, perhaps also the fact that his brother-in-law Jacques Gros , also a hotel architect who had built the Hotel Dolder in Zurich , The Bucher-Durrer hotelier dynasty was able to convey to him as client. After and alongside orders for private villas, for example, he planned the Monopol & Metropole Hotels in Lucerne (1898/1899), the east wing of the Grand Hôtel National (1897–1900) and the Waldstätterhof (1898–1900), in the nearby canton of Schwyz, in relatively short succession the construction of the Axenstein (1902) and Brunnen (1904) hotels . In the same year he carried out the first major international order, the Hotel Excelsior in Rome. In addition to the Swiss hotels in Bern (renovation Bernerhof , 1907–1908) and St. Moritz ( Kurhaus Chantarella , 1912; Carlton 1912–1913 and Monopol ), renovations and new buildings in Florence, Naples, Cologne, Athens, Cairo and Luxor as well as the King David in Jerusalem in 1931 .

His contribution to hotel construction was routine and up-to-date, for example in the facade designs , the good room arrangements and the use of new construction techniques such as the Hennebique system in the construction of the storey ceilings. His really original achievement, however, was an organizational one: During the construction of the east wing of the Grand Hotel National, the introduction of the apartment system, which, thanks to its variable arrangement, made it possible for guests to have several rooms with the necessary bathrooms to form a suite in the rooms facing the lake could connect, while the simple rooms were placed at the rear, which were then often occupied by the staff. Back then, that was an unheard of luxury that quickly caught on and set the standard in the luxury hotel industry for around thirty years.

His work includes the Zofingen City Museum (1899–1901) and the Lucerne Peace Museum (1909–1910) as the administrative building of the Hirzenhof (1914–1916, Centralschweizerische Kraftwerke Luzern), the Lucerne Cantonal Laboratory (1932) and the Wagenbachhof ( Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, 1920–1922).

Works (selection)

Early planning

• Neu-Hobacher settlement , Waldheimstrasse, Kriens 1894–95
• Office and warehouse building , Kauffmannweg 14, Lucerne 1894–95
• Double house , Kauffmannweg 16, Lucerne 1895–96
• Inselihof tenement house , Hirschmattstr. 29–33, Lucerne 1895–96
• Johannisberg Eye Clinic , Lucerne 1895–96
• 5 villas on Reckenbühlstrasse , Lucerne, various clients, 1895–96
  • No. 7 storey villa
  • # 9 Bella Vista
  • No. 11 corner tower villa
  • No. 13 Wilhelmina , own villa
  • No. 15 Erika
• Villa , Reckenbühlstrasse 8, Lucerne, 1897–98
• Villa , Reckenbühlstrasse 6, Lucerne, 1898–99

Hotels 1896-1914

• Kursaal , conversion of the theater hall and the main entrance, Lucerne 1896–97
• Hotel Rütli and Rheinischer Hof , renovation, Lucerne, 1897–98
• Hotel Monopol & Métropole , Lucerne, 1898–99
• Hotel Waldstätterhof , Lucerne, 1898–1900
• Grand Hotel National , east wing, Lucerne, 1899–1900
• Grand Hotel Palace , extension and expansion, Lugano 1900–1904
• Hotel Chateau Gütsch , restaurant extension, Lucerne, 1901
• Grand Hotel Axenstein , new building of the burned down hotel, Morschach, 1901–1902
• Grand Hotel , Florence, 1902
• Grand Hotel Brunnen , Brunnen, 1903–1904
• Hotel Excelsior , Rome, 1903–1906 (with Oskar Balthasar)
• Villa Castagnola , Hotel-Pension, Lugano, 1903–1911
• Hotel Excelsior , Naples, 1906–1909 (with Oskar Balthasar and Otto Maraini)
• Bernerhof , Bern, 1907–1908 (with Oskar Balthasar)
• Grand Hotel , Baden AG, 1902 (with Oskar Balthasar)
• Hotel Excelsior , Cologne, 1909 (with Oskar Balthasar)
• Monopoly , St. Moritz, 1911
• Kurhaus Chantarella , St. Moritz, 1912
• Carlton Hotel St. Moritz , 1912–1913
• Luxor Hotel , Extension, Luxor, 1925
• King David Hotel , Jerusalem, 1929-1931

literature

• Marcus Casutt: Vogt, Emil . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 553
• Marcus Casutt et al. a. (Ed.): Kriens – Kairo. Emil Vogt: Lucerne architect around 1900. Kriens: Museum in Bellpark Kriens 1998. ISBN 3-9521018-1-8

supporting documents

1. ↑ Carl Jegher: Emil Vogt † . Obituary in: Schweizerische Bauzeitung Vol. 108 (1936) No. 8 P. 89 Online
2. ^ Marcus Casutt and Hilar Stadler: Emil Vogt: Lucerne architect around 1900. In: Marcus Casutt u. a. (Ed.): Kriens – Kairo. Kriens: Museum im Bellpark Kriens 1998. ISBN 3-9521018-1-8 p. 17 f.
3. ↑ Peter Omachen: Hotel Architecture: Building for the World. In: Marcus Casutt u. a. (Ed.): Kriens – Kairo. Kriens: Museum im Bellpark Kriens 1998. ISBN 3-9521018-1-8 p. 34
4. ^ Marcus Casutt and Hilar Stadler: Emil Vogt: Lucerne architect around 1900. In: Marcus Casutt u. a. (Ed.): Kriens – Kairo. Kriens: Museum im Bellpark Kriens 1998. ISBN 3-9521018-1-8 p. 17
5. ↑ Peter Omachen: Hotel Architecture: Building for the World. In: Marcus Casutt u. a. (Ed.): Kriens – Kairo. Kriens: Museum im Bellpark Kriens 1998. ISBN 3-9521018-1-8 pp. 36–41

Web links

• Vanessa Giannò Talamona: Vogt, Emil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .