Jacques Wipf

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Jacques Wipf (born March 25, 1888 in Lille ; † November 13, 1947 in Kandersteg ), actually Johann Jakob Wipf , was a Swiss architect and teacher at the Burgdorf technical center . From the 1920s he designed the Oberhasli power plants as in-house architect and was a consultant for the engineering structures on design issues. In Thun he created a large number of residential and commercial buildings.

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Jacques Wipf, son of Johann Jakob Wipf, who has been based in Thun with his architecture office since 1896, completed a traineeship in Feuerthalen from 1903 to 1904 after attending the Thun Progymnasium. At the Burgdorf Technical Center, he trained as a construction technician (diploma in 1907). After an internship at the Thun municipal building authority, he then studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1909 to 1911 , with Paul Bonatz , among others . Further internships followed in Stuttgart, Lucerne ( Emil Vogt ), Zurich ( Streiff and Schindler ) and Oberhofen BE ( Johann Frutiger ). In 1913 he became an employee and design architect at Walter Bösiger in Bern.

In 1921 he took over his father's architecture office in Thun, and a year earlier he began teaching in Burgdorf. The houses, which he built in the 1920s were also the Heimatstil committed as the business houses he einpasste in the existing building. From 1925, architect of the Oberhasli power plants, the buildings, which were naturally spread over a large area, were recognizable as part of an overall system. The materiality, the cladding of the buildings with granite broken on the Aare , can be seen, for example, in the buildings on the Grimsel dam, such as the dam itself, the employee apartments in Innertkirchen, the new hospice building on the pass, the caretaker's houses, transformer stations and operational buildings (until 1934).

In the Bernese Oberland he designed several churches (such as the Merligen Church in 1937), parish and school houses and residential buildings in traditional forms. The Strandbad Thun (1932) and the Badehaus Wipf (1930) are committed to classic modernism . His late buildings such as the Moser car dealership (1946) and the Eiger gymnasium (1947) point to the 1950s stylistically ahead. Wipf's successor in the management of the Thun architecture office was his son-in-law Karl Müller-Wipf from 1947 .

literature

  • Daniel Wolf: Wipf, Jacques. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 569 f.
  • G. Sch .: Jacques Wipf . In: The work . tape 35 , no. 1 , 1948, p. 9 ( online at: seals.ch ).

supporting documents

  1. ↑ NN: Kraftwerke Oberhasli, architect JH Wipf, Thun . In: The work . tape 21 , no. 4 , 1934, pp. 114–128 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-86481 .
  2. ↑ In the footsteps of Karl Müller-Wipf. Architecture Forum Thun, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Wipf, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wipf, Johann Jakob (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and university professor at the Burgdorf technical center
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Lille
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1947
Place of death Kandersteg