Henri Bourrit

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Henri Bourrit (born October 23, 1841 in Cologny ; died September 12, 1890 in Cannes ) was a Swiss architect of historicism . Together with Jacques Simmler , he led the architecture firm Bourrit and Simmler in Geneva from 1869 to 1887 .

Life

Bourrit, son of the pastor Octave Bourrit and Emma née. After attending schools in Geneva and Paris, Hallart studied at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich from 1859 and graduated in 1862 with a diploma. He then got a job with his teacher, Gottfried Semper , for whom Simmler also worked.

For health reasons, Bourrit moved to southern France in 1864 or 1865, and after Bourrit was given the opportunity to build a villa there in Cannes and was entrusted with planning a church in Menton , he brought his former colleague over and established the office partnership. From 1869 to 1878 he was a professor at the technical faculty of the academy in Lausanne, a position he was in charge of from Geneva. In Geneva he was a councilor and judge at the commercial court from 1874 to 1876 .

In 1880 he went on a long trip to Palestine, about which he wrote a travel report. From this time on he devoted himself to lecturing, for example after a study trip to Germany on the occasion of the establishment of the Geneva Faculty of Chemistry. Bourrit died in 1890 after being burned after an accident, a gas explosion at a house inspection in Cannes.

Factory in the Bourrit and Simmler office

Selection of works

Bourrit and Simmler
  • Evangelical Church , Menton between 1864 and 1868
  • Villa Britannique , Cannes
  • Evangelical Church , Annecy 1870
  • Residential and commercial buildings , Carrée Boulevard Georges Favon / Rue du Stand / Quai de la Poste 1871
  • Reformed Church , Freiburg 1874–1875
  • Temple Indépendant , La Chaux-de-Fonds 1875–1877
  • Reformed Church , Sion 1876, replaced by a new building in 1968
  • Zurich Stock Exchange , competition 1876–1877 (5th prize)
  • École des arts industriels , Geneva 1876–1880 (today École des arts decoratifs )
  • Federal Court , Competition, Lausanne 1877 (1st prize, executed by Benjamin Recordon)
  • École de Chimie , Geneva 1878–1879
  • Sans-Souci Palace , Versoix 1882–1884
  • El-Masr Castle , Cologny 1883–1884
  • Villa Wenden , Cannes 1888–1890

literature

  • Catherine Courtiau: Bourrit and Simmler. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 78.
  • NN: Henri Bourrit . Obituary. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 16 , no. 13 , 1890, p. 83 f . ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to Nekrolog, the information in HLS, 1869–1870, is probably based on a typo
  2. ^ Report on the course of the accident
  3. ↑ Gilles Barbey, Armand Brulhart, Georg Germann: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . Geneva. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 4 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-280-01398-4 , p. 340 , col. 1 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-5496 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on September 17, 2015]).
  4. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 241 ( e-periodica.ch )
  5. ^ Jacques Gubler: Inventory of the newer Swiss architecture , 1850-1920 . La Chaux-de-Fonds. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 3 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-280-01397-6 , p. 201 , col. 2 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-4535 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on September 17, 2015]).
  6. ^ Catherine Raemy-Berthod: Inventory of modern Swiss architecture , 1850–1920 . Sion. In: Society for Swiss Art History (Ed.): INSA . tape 9 . Orell Füssli, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-280-05069-3 , p. 83 , col. 3 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-10094 ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on September 17, 2015]).
  7. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 341 ( e-periodica.ch )
  8. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 369 ( e-periodica.ch )
personal data
SURNAME Bourrit, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bourrit, Henry Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologny
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1890
Place of death Cannes