Georges Addor

Georges Addor (born September 24, 1920 in Geneva -Plainpalais; † August 18, 1982 in Geneva) was a Swiss modernist architect. In particular, he influenced and promoted the planning and construction of the large Geneva housing estates.

Cité Satellite Meyrin

Living band of the Cité du Lignon

High-rise buildings over the Rhône

Life

After Addor, son of a broker, studied architecture and law in Geneva from 1940 to 1943, he concentrated entirely on studying architecture and moved to Zurich, where he graduated from the ETH in 1948 . He then returned to Geneva, where he opened an office at his father's place of business, in which Dominique Juillard and Jacques Bolliger subsequently worked.

In addition to office buildings (Tamaro) and schools (Higher Commercial School Geneva, Primary School Budé), the focus of his work is on housing construction, especially the large Geneva estates that arose after the Loi du développement des agglomérations urbaines (LDAU, Law on the Development of Urban Agglomerations ): In Meyrin he designed a complex of several twelve-storey rows of living rooms arranged one behind the other with around 500 apartments, the Parc de Budé , together with his Hotel Intercontinental, forms an ensemble with luxury apartments in the immediate vicinity of the United Nations facilities , and in the suburb of Vernier was built after his Plans for the Cité du Lignon , a complex for 10,000 residents.

buildings

• Cayla Social Housing, Geneva, 1952–54
• Institut Batelle , Carouge, Geneva, 1954–57
• TAVARO administration building, Geneva, 1956–57
• Parc de Budé , residential development, and Hotel InterContinental, Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, 1949–53
• Malagnou-Cité residential building, Geneva,
• Higher commercial school , Saint-Jean, 1959–60
• Cité Satellite Meyrin Meyrin, Geneva, 1960–63
• Budé primary school , Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, 1961–63
• Rolex office building , Geneva-Plainpalais, 1961–63
• Cité du Lignon , Vernier, Geneva, 1962–71

literature

• Isabelle Charolais, Bruno Marchand: Addor, Georges. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 13 f.
• Gilbert Marion: Addor, Georges. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Web links

• Georges Addor. In: arch INFORM .
• Cité Satellite de Meyrin
• Publications by and about Georges Addor in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library