Fritz Haller (architect)

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Fritz Haller, excursion with architecture students from the University of Karlsruhe, in the Hafter house, Solothurn, 1984
The canton school in Baden, 1964
The model of the Baden Cantonal School by Fritz Haller, 1960
USM main building in Münsingen
USM Haller
USM Haller

Fritz Haller (born October 23, 1924 in Solothurn ; † October 15, 2012 in Bern ) was a Swiss architect and furniture designer. He is considered a “pioneer of industrial construction and integral planning” in Switzerland.

Life

Fritz Haller is the son of the Swiss architect Bruno Haller (1892–1972). After an apprenticeship as a draftsman (1941–1943) he was employed by various architects in Switzerland until 1948, and from 1948/49 to van Tijen en Maaskant in Rotterdam . From 1949 he worked as a freelance architect in Solothurn, until 1962 together with his father. From 1966 to 1971 Haller was at times a freelancer at the Research Institute of Konrad Wachsmann at the University of Southern California , Los Angeles. From 1977 to the beginning of the 1990s he taught as a full professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe , where he headed the "Institute for Building Design - Building Construction and Design I", and from 1990 the "Institute for Industrial Building Production" (ifib).

Alongside Franz Füeg , Max Schlup , Alfons Barth and Hans Zaugg, Fritz Haller is considered the most important representative of the “ Solothurn School ”.

plant

In collaboration with Paul Schärer jun. In 1963, Fritz Haller designed the USM Haller tubular steel furniture system, which was sold worldwide and which is still used in law firms, medical practices, offices, etc. to this day. The main focus of the designer and architect Fritz Haller is the constant adaptability, expandability and changeability of his systems, which he basically designed as a modular system .
Just like the highly flexible, expandable and convertible tubular steel furniture, Fritz Haller also designed three building kits for three building classes, made by Ulrich Schärer CH-Münsingen (USM): USM-Haller-Mini (residential buildings, offices, etc.), USM-Haller -Midi (high-installed buildings) and USM-Haller-Maxi (industrial buildings). Other architects also worked with the construction kits (FH: “The general solution”). Competition design of a really glass, highly installed modular plant based on the interchangeable principles of Armilla for the Braun company in Melsungen (1986).

In research work, etc. a. with Konrad Wachsmann in Los Angeles (1966–71), a. a. "From properties of excellent points in regular geometric systems" in: Bauen & Wohnen 11/1967 and "Wohnhaus Hafter, Solothurn - The Solothurn School" in: Werk, Bauen & Wohnen 7/8/1981, Fritz Haller dealt with urban social and urban utopian ones Projects such as “Total City - A Model” (Olten, 1968) and “Total City - A Global Model” (Olten, 1975). Furthermore: “Environmental design of a prototypical spatial colony” (1980). Development of "Armilla - an installation model: instruments for the EDP-supported planning of pipeline systems in highly installed buildings" (since 1982) - a planning system for the conflict-free installation and management of all supply and disposal systems in buildings. Fritz Haller developed and built over 100 schools, administration buildings, factories, banks, office buildings and residential buildings in Switzerland alone.

His furniture system is constantly being expanded and expanded. Customers can use their components from the early 1960s to today and combine them with newly purchased parts (Swiss price for sustainability).

buildings

  • Primary school Wasgenring Basel, design 1951, construction 1953–1954
  • Secondary school Wasgenring Basel, project 1958, construction 1960–1962
  • District school Solothurn, project 1956, construction 1958–1959
  • Bellach school near Solothurn, project 1958, construction 1959–1960
  • Kantonsschule Baden , Project 1960, Construction 1962-1964
  • USM Münsingen plant, project 1961, construction 1963 1st phase, 1971 2nd phase, 1979 3rd phase, 1987 4th phase
  • Office building USM Münsingen, project 1961, construction 1964
  • Building of the former bank in Kriegstetten BiK, Kriegstetten , project 1961, construction 1962–1963
  • Frischknecht Dulliken watch strap workshop, project 1962, construction 1963
  • Plant engineering works Agathon Bellach, project 1963, construction 1965 1st phase, 1975 2nd phase, 1985 3rd phase
  • HTL Windisch , project 1962, construction 1964–1966
  • Peichär Saalfelden printing works, project 1966, construction 1967
  • Guest worker apartments and machine storage hall Haller Mellingen, project 1967, construction 1967
  • Maschinenfabrik Hydrel Romanshorn, project 1966, construction 1967
  • Piguet Lostorf house, project 1967, construction 1968
  • Residential house Schärer Münsingen, project 1968, construction 1969
  • Barth Niedergösgen house, project 1968, construction 1969
  • Imfeld Sarnen office pavilion, project 1969, construction 1969
  • Maschinenfabrik Mikron Boudry, project 1969, construction 1970 1st phase, 1980 2nd phase, extensions 1985, 1990
  • Teaching and research center Dorigny (ETH Lausanne), competition project 1970
  • Mikron Boudry office pavilion, project 1970, construction 1970
  • Fässler Mörigen residential building, project 1970, construction 1971
  • Mantanus Montreux house, project 1972, construction 1973
  • Hafter Solothurn house, project 1976, construction 1977
  • SBB training center Löwenberg-Murten , project 1978, construction 1980–1982
  • USM Bühl plant, project 1982, construction 1983 1st phase, 1987 2nd phase
  • Solothurn Cantonal School, competition 1984, construction 1992–1993
  • Braun Melsungen plant, ideas competition 1986

Awards

  • 1971 Award for Designing the Haller System from Resources Council Inc. USA
  • 1973 Award for Best Design in Steel from the American Iron and Steel Institute USA
  • 1974 honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart
  • 1976 Art Prize of the Canton of Solothurn
  • 1993 honorary doctorate from the University of Dortmund

literature

  • Ulrich Coenen: Fritz Haller and USM - On the importance of the Swiss architect and furniture designer for Bühl. In: The Ortenau - magazine of the historical association for central bathing. Vol. 91 (2011), pp. 61-88.
  • Jürg Graser: Filled emptiness. Building the school in Solothurn: Barth, Zaugg, Schlup, Füeg, Haller. gta Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85676-281-0
  • Laurent Stalder, Georg Vrachliotis (eds.): Fritz Haller. Architect and researcher. gta Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-85676-334-3

Exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Is the record the right answer to the housing shortage? , NZZ from July 17, 2018, accessed July 17, 2018
  2. ^ Website of the Institute for Industrial Construction Production, University of Karlsruhe
  3. ^ Website of the Fraunhofer Information Center for Space and Construction
  4. ^ Christian Gänshirt: 1968 - Fritz Haller: Totale Stadt. in: Carsten Krohn (ed.): The unbuilt Berlin. City concepts in the 20th century. Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2010, pp. 191–193
  5. ^ Announcement on the exhibition , accessed on August 3, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Haller, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and furniture designer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Solothurn
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 2012
Place of death Bern