Hans and Annemarie Hubacher

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The dome-shaped greenhouses in the Zurich Botanical Garden
The Atlantis Hotel

Hans and Annemarie Hubacher were a couple of architects from Zurich and, in addition to their enduring individual buildings, also became known as the leading architects at large public exhibitions.

Biographies

Hans Otto Hubacher (* 18th September 1916 in Oberhofen , † 11. May 2009 in Zurich ) and Annemarie Hubacher-Constam (* 25. March 1921 in Zurich, † 8 July 2012 in Zurich) studied at the ETH in Zurich with a diploma 1942 and 1943. Annemarie Hubacher was born as a granddaughter of Gustav Gull ; her mother Gertrud Gull married Ernst Constam in 1914 . While Annemarie Hubacher initially worked in the offices of Alfred Roth and Hans Hofmann, Hans Hubacher was assistant at Hofmann's chair. In 1945 they were able to open their own office in Zurich.

Hans Hubacher was the chief architect of the 600th anniversary of the entry of the Zurich stand into the Confederation in 1951, seven years later this was his wife for the Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work (SAFFA) in Zurich.

In addition to the widely visible Hotel Atlantis on the slope of the Üetliberg from 1970 and the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden from 1977, which are also known to a wider public due to their emblematic shape, the work of the architects is also popular with a larger public, especially through the Mythenquai lido from 1954 known, which was not particularly noticed by the professional world. On the other hand, the Rietholz residential development from 1961, which measured the possibility of producing high-quality residential architecture under the conditions of the prefabricated building , was widely published and discussed . In many of their projects, attention is also drawn to the careful planning of the interior.

Works

literature

  • Monika Lauber: Hans and Annemarie Hubacher. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. S. 281. Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2

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