Frank Krayenbühl

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Stadttheater Winterthur, 1976–79
Stadttheater Winterthur, interior, view into the foyer
Large garage for Frank AG in Winterthur-Grüze

Frank Fernand Krayenbühl (born July 4, 1935 in London ; died July 5, 2011 ) was a Swiss architect , active from the 1960s to the 1990s, who built hospital and cultural buildings in addition to individual houses and residential complexes.

The son of the neurosurgeon Hugo Krayenbühl was born in London and returned to Switzerland as a child when his father moved to the University of Zurich and the Neumünster Hospital. Krayenbühl studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1957 to 1960 and received his doctorate there in 1963. In 1965 he opened his own architecture office in Zurich, but his most important works are located next to the Zurich-Witikon hospital (now the Witikon care center on Kienastenweg) in Winterthur: Das City theater and the large garage Grüze. His buildings thrive on a self-developed structuralism in which "geometry is used as a rule factor" that "creates gradations ..." that appear to have been knitted according to a growth pattern. This often results in open floor plans and spaces flowing into one another, such as B. clarifies the internal disposition of the Stadttheater Winterthur. Its basically open room structures can often be implemented using steel grids, which can create roofs and additional rooms in the third dimension that are functionally dependent and then result in the amazing building shape, such as the large garage for Frank AG in Winterthur-Grüze. In 1996 he became the central board member of the Presidium of the Federation of Swiss Architects , an office which he carefully managed and in which he was able to consolidate the in-house Werk Verlag, which had run into life-threatening difficulties.

Selection of works

  • Casa Perbioi , Verzasca Valley 1969
  • Grossgarage Grüze , Winterthur 1971–75
  • Theater am Stadtgarten , Winterthur 1976–79
  • Witikon hospital , Zurich 1979–83
  • Villa Finslerstrasse 2 , Zurich 1983
  • Retirement home am Wildbach , Wetzikon 1988–93
  • Casino area , Schwyz, 1989-97

literature

  • Christa Zeller: Krayenbühl, Frank Fernand. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 321
  • Peter Bosshard: Frank Krayenbühl, 1935-2011. In: Werk, Bauen und Wohnen. September 2011, p. 73 , accessed on October 26, 2019 .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Christa Zeller: Krayenbühl, Frank Fernand. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 321
  2. ↑ Casa Perbioi in the Verzasca Valley TI. In: Werk 6/1969. June 1969, p. 394 , accessed October 26, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Krayenbühl, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krayenbühl, Frank Fernand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 5, 2011