Ernst Schindler (architect)

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Textor office building, Zurich, 1960.
District building 10, housekeeping school and music pavilion, Zurich, 1961
Möbel Schwarz, Zurich, 1964

Ernst Schindler (born February 27, 1902 in Zurich ; † July 27, 1994 there ) was a Swiss architect .

Training and first job

Schindler completed his architecture studies at the ETH Zurich with Gustav Gull and Karl Moser, among others . He gained his first professional experience in Hamburg from 1925 to 1926 with Distel and Grubitz and in the following year worked with Le Corbusier in Paris on the competition design for the League of Nations Palace . He then worked for Arnold Itten in Thun and finally, from 1928–31, with his teacher Karl Moser, before setting up on his own.

While he was already achieving competition successes for his own projects during his time as a employed architect, he achieved two programmatic examples of new building in 1932 : In the lowland on Lake Constance near Egnach he built a holiday home, Haus Ruprecht, an angular building, the living spaces as elevated a stilt house. At the same time, a small residential colony was built in the succession of Neubühl near Zurich , on the upper Heslibachstrasse in Küsnacht , for which Schindler and Otto Hans contributed two rows of single- family houses.

Frey and Schindler

In 1936 Schindler founded a joint office with Hermann Frey, who was six years his junior, with branches in Olten and Zurich, which existed until 1947. Frey had initially also worked for Karl Moser and worked at Schindler from 1932 before becoming a partner. A number of larger public buildings were built in Olten as well as residential buildings, commercial buildings and small buildings, especially in Zurich and Olten.

1950s and 1960s

After Schindler had drawn attention to himself in the ideas competition for the university hospital in 1937, for example, his planning focus was on hospital construction from the 1950s. In addition, the Textor building (1960), which received the award for good buildings, and the headquarters of the Zürcher Kantonalbank (1971), which has since been placed under monument protection as part of the renovation in the 2010s, were built.

Schindler retired in 1985. Schindler, who was able to undertake a subsidized study trip to Italy after completing his studies, left a foundation that enables graduates to receive a scholarship for a study trip.

Works (selection)

Ernst Schindler
  • House Ruprecht , holiday home, Egnach 1932
  • Heslibachweg , row houses, Küsnacht 1932
Frey and Schindler
  • Lido , Olten, 1936–37
  • Frohheim , school building extension , Olten, 1936–37
  • Administration building of the Swiss Samaritan Association , Olten, 1938
  • Kantonalbank , Binningen , 1937–39
  • Glockenhof , Hotel-Restaurant, Olten, 1938
  • Studio and residential building , Dolderstrasse, Zurich, 1940–41
  • Swiss club range , Olten, 1947–48
  • Cantonal Hospital , Olten, 1957–66
Ernst Schindler
  • Waid City Hospital , Zurich 1950–53
  • Textor office building , Zurich 1955–60
  • Triemli City Hospital , Zurich, 1962–70 (Architects Ernst Schindler, Rudolf Joss, Helmut Rauber, Roland Rohn, Rolf Hässig, Erwin Müller)
  • Spital , Bülach 1957-60
  • Cantonal Hospital , Altdorf 1959–63
  • District building, home economics school and music pavilion , Zurich 1961
  • Residential and commercial building Treichlerstr. , Zurich 1961–64
  • Balgrist Clinic , Zurich, 1961–63
  • Möbel Schwarz , commercial building, Zurich, 1964
  • District Hospital , Bülach, 1967
  • Kantonalbank , headquarters, Zurich, 1971

literature

  • Claudio Affolter and Verena M. Schindler: Frey and Schindler . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 189 f.

supporting documents

  1. ^ NN: House Ruprecht, Egnach am Bodensee, E. Schindler, architect, Zurich . In: The work . tape 21 , no. 7 , 1934, pp. 206-209 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-86525 .
  2. ^ NN: Single-family houses on the upper Heslibachstrasse, Küsnacht (Zurich), architects E. Schindler and Otto Hans, Zurich . In: The work . tape 21 , no. 7 , 1934, pp. 210 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-86526 .
  3. ^ Biographical note in: Tec21, accessed February 15, 2014
  4. ^ Ernst Schindler Foundation , accessed February 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Schindler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1994
Place of death Zurich