Hans and Gret Reinhard

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The Head Office of Customs in Bern, 1947–51

Hans and Gret Reinhard were a couple of architects from Bern who worked from the 1940s to the 1980s and who mainly shaped housing developments and cooperative housing.

Biographies

Gret Reinhard (Margreth Ida née Müller, born July 28, 1917 in Winterthur ; died March 7, 2002 in Bern) was the daughter of a teacher and a chemist. She studied at the ETH Zurich from 1937 to 1941 with a diploma under Salvisberg . During the office internship she was with Franz Scheibler, Winterthur. During her studies she met her future husband, Hans Reinhard (Johannes Rudolf, born November 3, 1915 in Bern ; died March 3, 2003 there ), the son of the teacher and politician Ernst Reinhard . He attended schools in Bern and then also studied at the ETH from 1936 to 1941. He did his office internship with Hans Weiss.

Together they founded an office in Bern in 1942, which was run by Hans Reinhard von Gret during World War II during his active service until 1945. During this time, they built their own house and office, took part in competitions and started small-scale projects in housing development.

In 1943 they won the competition for the Federal Directorate General of Customs and teamed up with their friend Werner Stücheli , who was about the same age and who had won second prize, to realize it in 1947–51 . The design for the competition, which received 123 works, envisages a curved, seven-storey front building that forms a forecourt on Schwarztorstrasse. The five-storey administration wing is connected to it along Monbijoustrasse by means of a glass connecting element. For the building, one of the main works of the first post-war modernism and meanwhile protected as a cultural asset of national importance, an art competition was also held in 1953 to design the entire staircase wall of the central staircase. The artists Hans Fischer , Alois Carigiet , Karl Hügin , Otto Tschumi and François Liegme were commissioned for one floor each

Due to the housing shortage on the one hand and the housing shortage caused by the war on the other hand, housing construction was increasingly promoted, which led to the emergence of building cooperatives and the planning of garden city-like settlements. From 1943 the Reinhard office was able to plan a settlement, mainly with row houses, in Bern-Bümpliz and from 1944 to build it in three stages - the Bethlehemacker settlement in Bern-Bümpliz. A building project had to be coordinated that brought together various landowners and a total of three builders - in addition to the Bern community, which wanted to quickly build urgently needed living space during the Second World War, the building cooperative of woodworkers and carpenters and the newly founded family building cooperative came into play. Hans Reinhard had already demonstrated considerable negotiating skills in the planning and construction of the 178 terraced houses in three construction stages, which he later played out again and again, which is why he became one of the leading architects in Bern's (cooperative) housing development from the 1960s, at the same time chairman of the family and local politician has been.

In addition to other buildings for the public sector, her professional life from the 1950s was heavily influenced by the construction of large housing estates. Most of the settlements of the second post-war modern era in the west of Bern bear at least some of their signature , such as Meienegg , Tscharnergut , Gäbelbach, Schwab- and Fellergut.

Works

  • Bethlehemacker , terraced housing estate, Bern, 1944–46
  • Federal Directorate General of Customs , Bern, 1947–51
  • Meienegg , Siedlung, Bern, 1949–54
  • Coop warehouse , Bern, 1958
  • Park terrace , Bern, 1958–64
  • Tscharnergut , settlement, Bern, 1958–67
  • Institute for Exact Sciences , Bern, 1959–61
  • Gäbelbach , Siedlung, Bern, 1965–68
  • Schwabgut , Siedlung, Bern, 1965–71
  • Schanzenpost , Bern, 1966
  • Bethlehemacker II , settlement, Bern, 1967–74
  • Fellergut , Siedlung, Bern, 1969–74

literature

  • Evelyne Lang Jakob: Hans and Gret Reinhard. Buildings and projects 1942-1986. Niggli, Sulgen 2009. ISBN 978-3-7212-0628-9
  • Robert Walker: Reinhard, Hans and Gret In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. P. 281. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 440 f.
Gret Reinhard
  • Evelyne Lang Jakob: A sensible line . In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . tape 89 , no. 7/8 , 2002, p. 3 f . ( online [accessed November 2, 2015]).
  • Gret Reinhard died . In: raised ground floor . tape 15 , no. 5 , 2002, p. 8 ( online [accessed October 24, 2015]).
Hans Reinhard
  • Jacques Blumer: Hans Reinhard 1915-2003 . An obituary. In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . tape 90 , no. 5 , 2003, p. 68 ( online [accessed October 24, 2015]).
  • Jürg Sollberger: In memory of Hans Reinhard (1915–2003) . In: Living . tape 78 , no. 5 , 2003, p. 38 ( online [accessed October 24, 2015]).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Administration building of the Federal Directorate General of Customs, Bern . Hans and Gret Reinhard, architects BSA, Bern. In: Building + Living . tape 10 , no. 1 , 1956, pp. 7th ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-329189 .
  2. ↑ Competition for a federal administration building on Monbijoustrasse in Bern . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 124 , no. 2 , 1944, pp. 19th ff . ( online [accessed November 2, 2015]).
  3. ^ A objects BE 2018 . Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance. In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on November 2, 2015. (PDF; 212 kB, 47 pages, updated annually, the changes for 2018 are marked in blue).
  4. ↑ Heinz Keller: Wall paintings in the Monbijou administration building in Bern . In: The work . tape 43 , no. 3 , 1956, pp. 86 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-33272 .
  5. ↑ Bethlehemacker settlement, Bern . Hans and Gret Reinhard, architects BSA, Bern. In: Werk . tape 36 , no. 3 , 1949, pp. 67-71 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-28308 .