Jacques Simmler

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Jacques Simmler (actually Hans Jakob Simmler , born July 29 or 30, 1841 in Zurich ; died February 11, 1901 there ) was a Swiss architect of historicism . Together with Henri Bourrit , he ran the architecture firm Bourrit and Simmler in Geneva from 1869 to 1887 .

Education and career

Simmler already showed drawing talent while attending school in Zurich and completed an apprenticeship with Ferdinand Stadler . He also attended lectures by Gottfried Semper at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum , where he was subsequently employed. There he met his future partner Bourrit. After a short stay in Vevey, he followed this to the south of France in 1865, where the two founded a joint office. This existed - with the move to Geneva in 1868 - for a total of twenty years. After separating from Bourrit, he returned to Zurich in 1897 and ran his own office until the end of his life, into which he took his colleague from Simmler and Baur in 1894.

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
Simmler
  • Wolo AG , Zurich residential and office building 1893
  • Tonhall area , competition, Zurich 1895

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: J. Simmler . Necrology. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 37 , no. 7 , 1901, pp. 75 ( online ).

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ 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]).
  2. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 241 ( e-periodica.ch )
  3. ^ 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]).
  4. ^ 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]).
  5. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 341 ( e-periodica.ch )
  6. ↑ INSA Volume 4 p. 369 ( e-periodica.ch )
personal data
SURNAME Simmler, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simmler, Hans Jakob (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1901
Place of death Zurich