Georges-Pierre Dubois

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Georges-Pierre Dubois (born February 6, 1911 in Le Locle ; died January 7, 1983 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect who was known for his industrial buildings and for Brutalist architecture . Together with Jakob Eschenmoser , he ran a joint office from 1941 to 1953, which mainly built for the truck manufacturer Saurer in Arbon .

Education and employment

After studying at the ETH Zurich with William Dunkel and Otto R. Salvisberg , which he graduated with a diploma in 1936, he went on an extensive study trip to Greece and Turkey from 1936 to 1937. He then worked in Le Corbusier's office until 1940 . After returning to Switzerland, he worked briefly at Salvisberg. After his sudden death at the end of 1940, Dubois teamed up with Jakob Eschenmoser, whom he had met there, and went into business for himself. Dubois carried out an order for a villa near Lausanne together with a long-established office in western Switzerland. Dubois and Eschenmoser received their first major orders from Dubois' brother Albert, who was then general manager at Saurer. The then rapidly growing mechanical engineering company, which in the 1950s became one of the largest employers in Eastern Switzerland, commissioned the office to B. with the planning of his office building, a car repair shop and a canteen.

At the end of the 1950s, the Dubois and Eschenmoser office built a Unité d'Habitation in the spirit of Le Corbusier for Saurer AG and two further units in Zurich-Affoltern a decade later.

In the mid-1940s, the office also built a fruit processing factory in Thurgau. In the 1960s, further industrial buildings were added: the Portescap watch factory, a brutalist exposed concrete building and facilities for the Cardinal brewery in Freiburg.

Works (selection)

Dubois and Eschenmoser
  • Office building , Saurer AG, Arbon 1942–43
  • Fruit processing plant , Unipektin, Eschenz 1944–45
  • Canteen , Saurer AG, Arbon 1945
  • Heating center , Saurer AG, Arbon 1945
  • Repair workshop , Saurer AG, Arbon 1946–47
  • Villa Keller , Küsnacht 1952
  • Residential building , Saurer AG, Arbon 1959–60

literature

  • Sylvain Malfroy: Dubois, Georges-Pierre . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century . Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 150 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ NN: House in Prilly near Lausanne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 126 , no. 13 , 1945, p. 146-148 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-83732 .
  2. ↑ Max Eichenberger: Le Corbusier's footsteps in Arbon. In: Tagblatt Online. St.Galler Tagblatt AG, February 2, 2010, accessed on May 22, 2014 .
  3. ↑ NN: Office building of A.-G. Adolph Saurer, Arbon: Architects SIAGP Dubois & J. Eschenmoser, Zurich . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 124 , no. 1 , 1944, pp. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-53975 .
  4. ^ NN: New buildings of the public limited company Adolph Saurer, Arbon . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 66 , no. 26 , 1948, pp. 363-367 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-56747 .
  5. ^ NN: high-rise residential building in Arbon . In: Building + Living . tape 17 , no. 3 , 1963, p. 110-113 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-331570 .
  6. ^ NN: Unter-Affoltern residential development, Zurich . In: Building + Living . tape 26 , no. 9 , 1972, p. 414-416 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-334455 .
  7. ↑ NN: Unipektin A.-G. fruit processing plant. in Eschenz . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 127 , no. 5 , 1946, pp. 54-59 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-83791 .
  8. ↑ NN: Portescap factory in La Chaux-de-Fonds . In: Werk . tape 55 , no. 3 , 1948, p. o. p . ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Dubois, Georges-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Locle
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1983
Place of death Zurich