Fritz Stucky

Fritz Stucky (* 1929 ) is a Swiss architect and entrepreneur.

Stucky is the creator of the Variel system, a prefabricated concrete component system from his company Elcon AG (later: Vareco AG, deleted since 2006), which was widely used in Switzerland at the end of the 1950s, but was soon forgotten again. The construction industry soon reacted to the building boom and the increased demand for cheap building options no longer with increased use of Stucky's prefabricated series parts, but by recruiting cheap labor from abroad. Industrial construction also fell into disrepute because it seemed to destroy jobs.

The introduction of terrace houses - the first buildings of this type were built on Terrassenweg in Zug - in Switzerland by Stucky and his business partner Rudolf Meuli from 1958 also had legal consequences.There was a need for clarification with regard to dealing with the fact that this type of building had less land as the condominium.

The architecture firm Fritz Stuckys went bankrupt in 2004 , the proceedings ended on July 15, 2007 with the deletion of the company.

buildings

• Cantonal School Zug (1966–1968)
• Cantonal School Büelrain, Winterthur (1970–1972)
• Villa Mijnssen in Zug (1968) (with Rudolf Meuli)

Exhibitions

An exhibition about Stucky's works took place at ETH Zurich in 2006, which was later shown in Casino Zug .

literature

• Bauforum Zug, Gian-Marco Jenatsch, Bruno Krucker (ed.): Fritz Stucky. Work - series . gta Verlag Zurich 2006. ISBN 978-3-85676-180-6 .

Web links

• Review of work - series
• exhibition
• To the patents of Elcon AG
• Literature by and about Fritz Stucky in the catalog of the German National Library