Jean-Marie Ellenberger

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Jean-Marie Ellenberger (born April 20, 1913 in Geneva ; † September 13, 1988 there ) was a Swiss architect .

Professional biography

Ellenberger studied until 1931 at the École supérieure technique in Geneva, where he obtained the construction engineer diploma, followed by an architecture degree at the École des Beaux-Arts there until 1933 . He got a degree in mathematics in 1934 from Geneva University . He continued his studies in Paris in 1935 , where he also completed an internship with Le Corbusier, and in Zurich in 1936 .

Ellenberger, who opened his own office in Geneva in 1938, successfully took part in numerous competitions, for example in 1934 together with Hoechel in the ideas competition for the design of the Place des Nations at the Palace of the League of Nations , where he won first prize. During the Second World War, after an order for the design of the Geneva university auditorium, he also won first prize in the ideas competition for a navigable transport route from Lake Geneva to the Rhône . During this time, Ellenberger was also editor-in-chief of the French-speaking Swiss specialist magazine Vie, art, cité , which appeared from 1938 to 1952.

From 1945 Jean-Marie Ellenberger moved to Valais due to a tuberculosis disease due to the climate, where he opened an office. Several of his buildings shape the townscape in Crans-Montana, including many detached houses and chalets, but also the Bern Clinic (1947–48) and the modernist Hotel Tour Super-Crans (1964–68).

As a church builder, he designed the Catholic parish of Chermignon (1951 to 1953), of Tubize (Belgium, 1957 to 1958), of Verbier (1959 to 1968) and of Sierre (1960 to 1963), the church of Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal in Geneva (1967 to 1969) and the Chapel of the Couvent des Ursulines in Sion.

Ellenberger's career was linked to Geneva Airport for decades : in 1947/48 when the then 25-year-old simple airfield was expanded, the airport building was built according to his plans (together with Jean Camoletti ), a building that he fundamentally expanded from 1962 to 1968. For the control tower there , which was one of his later works (1980 to 1984, together with Jean-Jacques Gerber, François Mentha, Daniel Rosset), he won the European Steel Construction Prize, among other things.

In addition to the buildings in his home town of Geneva and those of his later center of life, the Valais, other local areas of focus were sanatoriums, hotels, restaurants, commercial buildings and luxury residential buildings in Belgium, Argentina and West Africa.

literature

  • Catherine Courtiau: Ellenberger, Jean-Marie . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. P. 162 f. Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
  • Sylvie Doriot Galofaro: L'Architecture de Jean-Marie Ellenberger . In: La Vie à Crans-Montana. Vol. 61, winter 2011–2012. online (PDF; 2.5 MB)

supporting documents

  1. ^ Concours d'idées destinées à arrêter l'aménagement . In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande . tape 60 , no. 17 , 1934, pp. 196–198 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  2. ^ François Fosca: Chronique romande . In: Federation of Swiss Architects (ed.): The work . tape 31 , no. 3 , 1944, pp. XXV-XXVI ( e-periodica.ch [accessed on September 2, 2013]).
  3. ↑ The new Bernese people sanatorium Montana: architect J. Ellenberger and A. Perraudin, customs . In: The work . tape 41 , no. 5 , 1954, doi : 10.5169 / seals-31721 .
  4. ^ Crans-Montana. Une cité à la montagne. (PDF; 550 kB) In: Schweizer Heimatschutz. Retrieved September 2, 2013 .
  5. ^ Marie Claude Morand: Architectures contemporaines en Valais: 1960-1980 . In: Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . tape 110 , no. 26 , 1984, pp. 430 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-75367 .
  6. ↑ Le Christ-de-Fer par Jacques Debacker. In: Musée de la Porte, Tubize. Retrieved September 2, 2013 .
  7. ^ A. Bodmer: The Geneva-Cointrin Airport . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 126 , 1945, p. 237-242 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-83755 .
  8. ↑ F. Quétant: aérogare Projet d' . In: The work . tape 32 , no. 5 , 1945, p. 156-163 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-25675 .
  9. ↑ François Neyroud: La nouvelle tour de contrôle de l'aéroport de Genève-Cointrin . In: Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . tape 111 , no. 15-16 , 1985, pp. 285-287 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-75645 .

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personal data
SURNAME Ellenberger, Jean-Marie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1988
Place of death Geneva