Heinrich Auf der Maur

Heinrich Auf der Maur (born January 6, 1904 in Lucerne ; † March 7, 1992 in Lucerne) was a Swiss architect .

Life

After graduating from the canton school in Lucerne, Heinrich Auf der Maur studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and received his diploma in 1929 from the TH Stuttgart under Paul Bonatz . In Switzerland he then worked for Armin Meili in Lucerne and in the Basel city map office with Arnold Schumacher. From 1930 to 1935 he worked in the hospital building office of the Lucerne cantonal master builder, and this is how his first large buildings were built as part of the expansion of the Lucerne canton hospital. In 1936 he founded his own office, which existed until 1977, most recently in collaboration with Georges Burch. Auf der Maur was a member of the BSA (Federation of Swiss Architects) and the Swiss Werkbund . In 1941 he was one of the co-founders of the regional planning group in the forest site section of the SIA (Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects) and was involved as a judge in many competitions.

The Stuttgart Weissenhofsiedlung , which Auf der Maur was able to follow during his studies, shaped him according to his own statements for his entire working life. The buildings for the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, v. a. the Pathological Institute, one of the most important examples of New Building in Switzerland. His later works, the institute and monastery buildings in Baldegg and Hertenstein , are strict, clearly structured and carefully designed structures . In Lucerne, under pressure from the city and general contractor, he had to make major changes to his originally radical project for the Sentihof development, and even forego a concrete and glass building in the old town after protests and demonstrations. Other works, such as the Lucerne Gartenheim housing estate or the Staffeln schoolhouse, which has since been demolished, are just as carefully designed, but more inconspicuous in the style of the post-war period and have plastered facades and tiled roofs , as is his own house in Küssnacht , which, however, attracted some attention. Several of his buildings are under protection.

buildings

• Lucerne, Pathological Institute of the Cantonal Hospital, 1930–33
• Lucerne, district heating canton hospital (with W. Schmidli), 1931
• Lucerne, Medicine II Cantonal Hospital (with H. Klapproth), 1934
• Lucerne, Kohler House, Kreuzbuchstrasse, 1934–36
• Lucerne, St. Karl rectory, 1937
• Meggen, Scheidt House, Lerchenbühl, 1939
• Lucerne, Hafner-Moy house, Kreuzbuchstrasse, 1939
• Lucerne, renovation of Haus Auf der Maur, Mühlenplatz, 1939
• Lucerne, Swiss Post office building (with A. Boyer and H. Schaad), Tribschen, 1943 (extension 1966)
• Lucerne, Gartenheim housing estate (16 double single-family houses), 1945–47
• Lucerne, Löchlimatt settlement (35 single-family houses), 1947
• Meggen, renovation of St. Charles Hall, 1947
• Lucerne, Merkur development, Tribschenstrasse (6 apartment buildings), 1st stage 1947–48, 2nd stage 1948–50
• Lucerne, renovation of Hotel Gotthard, Bahnhofplatz, around 1950
• Lucerne, residential building, Hitzlisbergstrasse, around 1950
• Reussbühl, Schulhaus Staffeln, 1952–1962 (2 stages, 2018 demolition due to pollution)
• Baldegg, extension of the subsidiary institute, 1953 and the so-called Südbau, 1962
• Lucerne, Sentihof development (297 apartments), Lucerne, 1953–54 (implementation has changed significantly compared to the planning)
• Lucerne, business line Bundesstrasse / Himmelrichstrasse, 1954
• Lucerne, Bleicherhof business and residential building, Bundesstrasse (with A. Boyer), 1954
• Lucerne, office building on Weinmarkt (with F. Hodel), 1955
• Küssnacht Haus Auf der Maur-Kohler, Kleinbreitfeld, 1956
• Küssnacht Strandbad, 1957
• Gersau, gymnasium and hall construction, 1959
• Lucerne, Leszinskihaus (not executed), 1960
• Lucerne Reussbühl, apartment building, Heiterweid, 1960
• Küssnacht, cantonal bank building, 1962
• Hochdorf, Kindergarten and Practice School Junkernwald, 1963
• St. Moritz, Hotel Kulm indoor and outdoor pool (with A. Losego and W. Hunziker), 1964
• Hertenstein, Institute and Church of Stella Matutina, 1964
• Ettiswil, Benedictine convent and nursing home in Sonnbühl (with A. Glanzmann, B. Luginbühl), 1967–70
• Hochdorf, Pfarreiheim, 1970–72
• Kerns, Community House, 1976

Urban planning

• Lucerne, study at Kasernenplatz, 1941
• Lucerne, low-priced apartment types (with A. Zeyer , M. Raeber, 4 designs in 4 quarters, 3rd prize), 1942
• Littau, development plan Udelboden (with A. Mozzatti), 1947–51

Competitions

• Schwyz, Spital (4th prize), 1933
• Lucerne, commercial and women's labor school (3rd prize), 1941
• Lucerne, Central Library (not awarded), 1945
• Ingenbohl-Brunnen, school house (with A. Losego, 4th prize), 1960
• Küssnacht, old people's home (4th prize), 1965
• Emmenbrücke, Church Community Center Brother Klaus (with B. Luginbühl, A. Glanzmann, G. Burch, 4th prize), 1967

literature

• Hannes Ineichen, Tomaso Zanoni: Lucerne architects. Architecture and urban development in the canton of Lucerne 1920–1960. Verlag Werk AG, Zurich / Bern 1985, ISBN 3-909145-06-X , pp. 10-13, 124.
• Tomaso Zanoni: On the Maur, Heinrich. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 33.
• Bernard L. Raeber: Eva on the Maur-Kohler. 1919-2005. Life story of an idiosyncratic woman in a patriarchal structure, Lucerne 2005, ISBN 3-7239-0109-3 .

Web links

• Heinrich Auf der Maur (1904–1992) , in: Architectural Library