Ernst E. Othergg

Ernst Emil Anderegg (born January 8, 1928 in Unterbach ; † May 28, 2006 in Meiringen ) was a Swiss architect whose buildings in the Bernese Oberland helped shape building in the Alpine region.

Life and education

Ernst E. Anderegg was the son of a hotelier. After completing an apprenticeship as a draftsman in Bern, Anderegg graduated as an HTL architect from the Burgdorf engineering school . He trained with some architects, first from 1952 in Paris with the Swiss Denis Honegger , from 1953 to 1957 in the USA, especially with Frank Lloyd Wright in his studios in Arizona and Wisconsin . After returning to Switzerland, he opened an architecture office in Meiringen in 1957. In the four decades of its existence, Anderegg, like his teacher Frank Loyd Wright, trained a large number of architects in a classic student-master relationship, who conveyed his views and demands.

Anderegg was a member of the SIA and the BSA, in particular he was involved, in addition to planning many localities, but also in the Cantonal Bernese nature and homeland protection commission, advising the Bern homeland security. His master plan and the infrastructure of the Ballenberg open-air museum became particularly well known in this area .

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Anderegg made strong reference to Wright's teachings in his work, which includes around 80 single-family and holiday homes and also buildings for the public sector (swimming pools, schools, sports infrastructure). At the beginning of his career, for example, the Alexander house in Hasliberg (1958) and the Hommel holiday home in Innertkirchen (1962) should be mentioned. Anderegg defined 1971 as his opposite position to the pleasing chalet construction, which he saw as "adaptation to the adapted":

«I always try to fit my buildings into the landscape. There is a very dangerous difference between 'adapt' and 'insert'. The surrounding landscape must always be a great challenge for the architect, a constant value that is not subject to any trends in time, however violent they may be. In the course of time, however, people see the landscape again and again, the architect tries to interpret it with his skills and the means available to him. "

- Silvia Kugler, Ernst E. Anderegg : Interview

Anderegg combined the design language of the Haslital farmhouse or, more generally, of the Bernese Oberland, with contemporary construction methods - for example the large, expansive roofs with the construction of laminated beams in the indoor swimming pool in Gstaad or the structures on the Jungfraujoch , the Top of Europe restaurant on the summit . With all the regional references, it was important to him to integrate the buildings and not to adapt them - in doing so, he developed the house from the inside out, often by working out an original design idea and a room idea and bringing it to fruition. It always came down to the relationship to the surrounding landscape, i.e. to the topology and the visual references.

Works (selection)

• Alexander House , Hasliberg 1958
• Holiday home Hummel , Innertkirchen 1962
• Stein settlement , Meiringen 1963
• Glatthard House , Meiringen 1965
• Bösiger House , Niedermuhlern 1965
• Klostern housing estate , Steffisburg 1966
• Ecole d'Humanité (3 houses) , Hasliberg Goldern 1969
• Lohr House , Maloja 1969
• Beck House , Rüeggisberg 1970
• House Schweizer , Hasliberg 19
• Indoor swimming pool , Gstaad 1972
• Ferienhaus Schnider , Zermatt 1974
• Parish hall , Gstaad 1977
• House Riederer , Eschenbach 1978
• Mägisalp mountain restaurant , Hasliberg 1981
• Mangold House , Lugnorre 1986
• Schmidlin House , Aeschlen 1987
• Winteregg mountain restaurant , Mürren 1987
• Kraftwerk , Spiez 1987
• Berghaus Jungfraujoch , Grindelwald 1981–87
• Schwittter House , Oberägeri 1989
• Retirement home , Lenk 1989
• Retirement home , Sigriswil 1990
• Secondary school , Erlenbach 1990
• House Finger , Thun 1992
• Kraftwerk , Kandergrund 1992
• House Murer , Beckenried 1993
• Swiss Travel Fund Holiday Center , Hasliberg 1994
• Sphinx expansion , Jungfraujoch 1994–95

literature

• Johanna Strübin Rindisbacher: Anderegg, Ernst E. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (Eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. p. 20. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
• Daniel Wolf: Ernst E. Anderegg . 1928-2006. In: Bund Schweizer Architekten (ed.): Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . tape 93 , no. 10 . Werk Verlag, Zurich 2006, p. 64 f . ( online [accessed September 11, 2015]).
• Daniel Wolf, Jost von Allmen: Ernst E. Anderegg. Selected buildings in the Interlaken-Oberhasli region. (Swiss Art Guide, No. 887/888, series 89). Ed.  Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2011, ISBN 978-3-85782-887-4 .
• Günter Meißner: Anderegg, Ernst . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 3, Seemann, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00116-9 , p. 354.
• Simona Martinoli: Anderegg, Ernst E .. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .

supporting documents

1. ^ Daniel Wolf: Alpine architecture as applied art. In memory of Ernst E. Anderegg, 1928 - 2006, Meiringen. In: Jungfrauzeitung. Retrieved September 11, 2015 . 
2. ^ EA (= Ernst Anderegg): House in the Bernese Oberland . 1958, architect Ernst E. Anderegg, Meiringen. In: The work . tape 47 , no. 12 . Werk Verlag, Zurich 1960, doi : 10.5169 / seals-36836 .
3. ↑ NN: Building in the mountains . Tendencies. In: The work . tape 4 , no. 56 . Werk Verlag, Zurich 1969, p. 247 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-87315 .
4. ↑ Silvia Kugler, Ernst E. Anderegg: Natural architecture . In: The ideal home . tape 45 , no. 8 . Schönenberger, Zurich 1971, p. 11 .
5. ^ NN: indoor swimming pool Gstaad BE . Planning and construction management of the architects Ernst E. Anderegg and M. Schweizer. In: Bund Schweizer Architekten (Ed.): Werk . tape 60 , no. 7 . Werk Verlag, Zurich 1973, p. 855-857 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-87586 .
6. ↑ Ernst E.Anderegg: From idea to project . The new buildings on the Jungfraujoch. In: SIA (ed.): Swiss engineer and architect . tape 105 , no. 30-31 , 1987, pp. 893-895 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-76659 .
7. ^ Daniel Wolf: Ernst E. Anderegg . 1928-2006. In: Bund Schweizer Architekten (ed.): Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . tape 93 , no. 10 . Werk Verlag, Zurich 2006, p. 64 f . ( online [accessed September 11, 2015]).