Juerg Conzett

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Jürg Conzett (born September 28, 1956 in Aarau ) is a Swiss civil engineer who is best known for his bridges.

biography

From 1975 Conzett studied civil engineering at the EPF Lausanne and the ETH Zurich with a diploma in 1980. From 1981 to 1987 he worked for the architecture firm Peter Zumthor .

In 1988 Conzett started his own business as a civil engineer in Haldenstein, was a partner in the engineering office Branger & Conzett from 1992 (from 1996 Branger Conzett und Partner AG) and from 1998 in the engineering office Conzett Bronzini Gartmann AG (with Gianfranco Bronzini and Patrick Gartmann) in Chur . From 2015 it became Conzett Bronzini Partner AG , where he is Chairman of the Board of Directors and a member of the management. He is also in charge of building and bridge construction projects there.

From 1987 to 2004 he was a lecturer in timber construction at the Graubünden University of Applied Sciences . In 2015 he was visiting professor at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University .

From 2004 to 2016 he was on the Monument Preservation Commission of the City of Zurich and from 2006 on the Federal Commission for Monument Preservation.

In 2018 he received the Fritz Leonhardt Prize .

His designs were shown in the Swiss Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2010.

Most important buildings

Belong to his buildings

  • the first and second traversine footbridge (completed in 1996, destroyed by a rock fall in 1999 and newly completed in 2005), for this and for his entire work he received the 1999 Grand Prize for Alpine Building.

Other bridge projects are

  • the Mursteg in Murau (1993 to 1995, pedestrian bridge, timber construction),
  • the Coupurebrug in Flanders (2002, pedestrian and cycle path bridge, steel construction),
  • the Pùnt da Suransuns (1999, Viamala, tension band bridge),
  • the pedestrian bridges in Murg-Auen-Park Frauenfeld and
  • the Rupperswil and Auenstein bridges.

Belong to his high-rise buildings

  • the Swiss ensemble at the Expo 2000 in Hanover (architect Peter Zumthor),
  • the St. Peter schoolhouse (Graubünden),
  • the new construction of the Zurich stadium ,
  • the Federal Administrative Court of St. Gallen (with Staufer & Hasler)
  • the renovation / expansion of the Zurich Congress Center and Tonhalle.

Fonts

  • The Albulabahn, Society for Swiss Art History 1989
  • with Rolf Bachofner: Bridges in wood: Possibilities and limits: Research project AGB 2003/012 at the request of the working group Bridge Research (AGB), Swiss Association of Road and Transport Experts VSS 2013
  • Landscape and engineering structures: a personal inventory by Jürg Conzett; [published for the exhibition in the Swiss pavilion on the occasion of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice, August 29 - November 21, 2010], Zurich: Scheidegger and Spiess 2012
  • with others: Swiss railway bridges, Scheidegger and Spiess 2013

literature

  • Mohsen Mostafavi: Structure as Space: Architecture and Engineering in the Work of Jürg Conzett, Mit Pr. 2002

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Conzett, Juerg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Aarau