Henauer and Witschi
Henauer and Witschi were Swiss architects and jointly ran an architecture office in Zurich . Your most important building is the local stock exchange .
Walter Henauer
Walter Henauer (born July 16, 1880 in Zurich; † February 7, 1975 in Muralto ) obtained his architecture diploma at the Technikum in Winterthur . After further studies as a specialist auditor at the TH Munich , he worked in Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin from 1903-10. In 1908/09 he completed a study visit to Florence and Rome. He founded his own office in Zurich in 1911, which he ran together with Witschi from 1913–36.
In 1933, Henauer founded the Swiss prototype center, which he successfully managed for 30 years.
Ernst Witschi
Ernst Witschi (born March 5, 1881 in Mehlsecken near Reiden ; † June 24, 1959 in Zurich) completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman in Zurich and then worked in various Berlin architecture firms from 1910–11. From 1911 to 1913 he managed the construction of the Kasper Escher House in Zurich for the office of the Berlin architect Franz Ahrens . Thereupon he began the 20-year partnership with Henauer. In 1936, after the joint office was closed, he and his son founded an office in which he worked until the year he died.
Works (selection)
- Henauer and Witschi
- Kurhaus Victoria, Orselina, 1911–12
- Kurhotel Esplanade, Locarno-Minusio, 1911–13
- District building, Uster, 1914
- Commercial buildings at Stampfenbach- / Walchestrasse, Zurich, 1914–18
- Nursing facility, Uster, 1917-18
- Freilutstrasse Synagogue, Zurich, 1923–24
- Schanzenhof, Zurich, 1926–27
- Stock Exchange , Zurich, 1928–30
- Friesenberg school building, Zurich, 1930–31 and 1945
- New Church Wollishofen , Zurich, 1935–1936
- Henauer
- Reformed Church , Wettingen , 1939
- Diaspora Church , Koblenz , 1938–39
- Single-family house exhibition, Witikon, 1942
- Claridenhof, Zurich, 1946
- Central Meteorological Institute, 1947–49
- Talhof, Zurich, 1949–50
literature
- Simone Rümmele: Henauer and Witschi. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds): Architects Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 262.
- Robert Winkler: Ernst Witschi . In: The work . tape 43 , no. 8 , 1959, pp. 161 ( online ).
- Max Kopp: Walter Henauer . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 93 , no. 35 , 1975, pp. 552 ( online ).