gta archive
The gta Archives (Archive of the Institute for G istory and T heorie the A rchitecture ) is an archive collection of rebates German Swiss architects from Architecture intermediaries and architectural photographers of the 19th and 20th century . It is located at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich .
Profile, focus of work
Emerging from the so-called "Semper Museum", which was set up by his students after Gottfried Semper's death (1803–1879), the gta archive, founded in 1967, comprises around 200 bequests, as well as the archive of the International Congresses for New Building (CIAM) and the archive of the Federation of Swiss Architects (BSA) , various collections with image, sound and film documents as well as a library belonging to the NEBIS network.
The archive is a national and international competence center, one third of which is visited by researchers from abroad. It sees itself as a research archive that supports the continuous processing of its own holdings in various forms. The gta archive supports external and internal research, exhibition and book projects, supports doctoral students in their research, lends exhibitions and operates its own research projects. In addition, project partnerships such as those with Gottfried Semper , the ETH Zurich as the client and the Haefeli Moser Steiger architectural association also play a role.
The archive acts as a lender for exhibitions at Swiss and international institutions. The exhibitions are usually preceded by archival work by the curators , which is why the presentations also convey new research results. The gta archive aims to promote and pass on knowledge gained through the exchange of research results and detailed expertise on site. In the exhibitions, the originals are to be brought into correspondence with other sources, processed in terms of content, curatorial staged and thus conveyed to a broad international audience.
history
In the year of death of Gottfried Semper (1879), the founder of the building school at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum in Zurich , some of his Zurich students took the initiative to found a " Semper Museum ". After a short period of independence (1880–1884), its holdings were handed over to the library of the building school (later the architecture library, which was transferred from the architecture department to the main library of the ETH Zurich in 1950). When the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) was founded in 1967, it received the “Semper Archive”, which had emerged from the “Semper Museum”, as its foundation.
In addition to the Semper estate, the holdings also included the estate of his successors such as Georg Lasius , Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli , Gustav Gull , Karl Moser and several other younger and older Swiss architects. The research activities of the institute were accompanied by collecting activities. The establishment of the CIAM archive ( Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne ) led to a large increase in the inventory . Estates and holdings increased, and the Semper Archive gradually became the “Archive for Modern Swiss Architecture”. Today it is called the “gta archive” and, alongside the exhibitions and publications sections, forms one of the cornerstones of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture.
Collections
The acquisition focuses on the protagonists of Swiss architecture after 1945. Among others, the archives of Ernst Gisel and Fritz Haller as well as the legacies of Claude Schnaidt , Claude Paillard , Alfons Barth , Jacques Schader , Dolf Schnebli and Eduard Neuenschwander were taken over. The focus of the collection is on Swiss landscape architecture and spatial planning with representatives such as Gustav Ammann and Hans Marti . These holdings, which are acquired and managed in cooperation with the Network City and Landscape (NSL), are located in the NSL Archive (gta), an autonomous unit within the gta Archive. Separate rules of use apply to the NSL archive.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/5065602/
