Oeschger brothers

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The Kappeli school in Zurich from the 1930s
Rapperswil-Jona , 1957 by Heinrich Oeschger

The Oeschger brothers ran an architectural office in Zurich that was particularly successful in the 1950s with public buildings and cooperative housing.

Alfred Oeschger

Alfred Eduard Oeschger (born January 26, 1900 in Basel , † February 15, 1953 in Basel) spent primary school in St. Imier and his youth in Interlaken, where his father was the manager of the parquet and chalet factory. After graduating from the Technikum Burgdorf in 1918, he attended the Technical University of Munich from 1922 to 1925 . He was then head of the offices of Albert Froelich and of Müller and Freytag in Thalwil.

Heinrich Oeschger

Heinrich Oeschger (born May 7, 1901 in Basel; † June 16, 1982 in Zurich), also studied in Burgdorf and Munich. From 1924 to 1929 he was office manager at Otto Rudolf Salvisberg in Berlin , before joining his brother's office, which he founded together with his father Eduard in 1927. Thanks to his expertise in the construction of Zurich Airport, he was involved in a large number of other airport plans, namely in Paris-Orly , Cairo , Athens, Beirut, London-Gatwick , Tokyo-Haneda , Nairobi, Rome-Fiumicino and Frankfurt .

Works

After the joint office was founded in 1932 - Alfred had already won the competition for the Swiss National Library in Bern in 1927 and built it together with two other offices - the office was one of the successful architecture firms at the beginning of the 1930s. You achieved competitive success in school and university construction: Your Kappeli school in Zurich-Altstetten, completed in 1937, which defines the outdoor spaces with elongated, broad structures and the ETH hydraulic engineering institute. At the Landi 1939 they set up the big marquee. For the family home cooperative Zurich they built inexpensive cooperative housing developments on Friesenberg, mainly as single-family houses, for the general building cooperative Zurich in Oberwiesenstrasse, apartment buildings and terraced houses. In the 1940s and 1950s, commercial buildings were added, such as Kloten Airport in 1952 , which was followed by the planning of a further expansion stage in 1972, or the residential and commercial building on Sihlporte in 1955.

List of works

  • Swiss National Library , Bern, 1926, 1929–31 (Alfred Oeschger with Emil Hostettler and Josef Kaufmann)
  • Kappeli school building , Zurich, 1932, 1935–37
  • Friesenberg Family Home Cooperative, Zurich, 1932–44 (with Alfred Mürset and Robert Winkler )
  • Large marquee and tasting bar , National Exhibition of Switzerland, Zurich, 1939 (canceled)
  • ABZ colony Oberwiesenstrasse , Zurich, 1944.
  • Expansion of the research institute for hydraulic engineering at the ETHZ , Zurich, 1947–51
  • Hanfländer primary school , Rapperswil, 1949–50
  • Lecture hall of the physical institute of the ETHZ , Zurich, 1949–52
  • International Airport , Zurich-Kloten, 1952, expansion 1972.
  • Teachers' seminar in Aarau , 1955 (cf. Neue Kantonsschule Aarau )
  • Cityhaus office building , Zurich, 1955 (Heinrich Oeschger with Karl Knell)
  • City House , Rapperswil, 1956–57 (Heinrich Oeschger)

literature

  • Giovanni Meninghi: Oeschger Brothers. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 404 f.
  • Alfred Oeschger (necrology). In: Werk. Volume 40, 1953, issue 4, pp. * 58 * f. (Chronicle) (online)
  • Hans Marti: Heinrich Oeschger (Nekrolog). In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen. Volume 69, Issue 9, 1982, p. 61. (online)
  • Peter Röllin: Rapperswil-Jona culture construction kit. 36 museums without a roof. 2nd Edition. Rapperswil-Jona 2011, ISBN 978-3-033-03126-5 , p. 29.

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b Alfred Oeschger (Nekrolog). In: Werk. Volume 40, Issue 4, 1953, pp. * 58 * f. (Chronicle) (online)
  2. ↑ a b c Hans Marti: Heinrich Oeschger (Nekrolog). In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen. Volume 69, Issue 9, 1982, p. 61. (online)
  3. ↑ Five new school buildings in Zurich. In: (The) work. Volume 25 (1938) pp. 216-220, doi: 10.5169 / seals-86717 .
  4. ^ R. Winkler: New residential buildings of the family home cooperative on Friesenberg in Zurich: Architects: Alfr. Mürset, A. & H. Oeschger, Rob. Winkler, all in Zurich. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung. Volume 124, Issue 18, 1944, p. 233 ff. Doi: 10.5169 / seals-54042
  5. ^ Alfred Roth: Comments on three new settlements in Zurich. In: (The) work. Volume 33, Issue 1, 1946, pp. 1-14. doi: 10.5169 / seals-26295