Jeanne Bueche

Jeanne Bueche (born April 15, 1912 in Saint-Imier ; † June 28, 2000 in Delsberg ), entitled to live in Court , was a Swiss architect .

Life

Jeanne Bueche was reformed and baptized as the daughter of the architect Louis Bueche. She converted to Catholicism in 1944 and remained single. In 1935, Bueche obtained an architecture diploma from the ETH Zurich as a student of Otto Rudolf Salvisberg . She worked u. a. 1938 in Stuttgart , 1941 in Lugano with Rino Tami and with her father, until in 1944 she was the first female architect in French-speaking Switzerland to open her own office in Delsberg. She was the only woman of her time to specialize in religious architecture. She built eight churches (e.g. 1955–1956 in Broc and 1961 in Vellerat ) and carried out around 30 conversions and restorations, most of them in the Jura. She worked with artists such as Fernand Léger , Coghuf and Remo Rossi . Member of the SIA from 1944, of the Association of Swiss Architects from 1960, of the Federal Art Commission 1960–1968. 1976 co-founder and 1980–1988 president of the Association pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine rural jurassien (Association for the Preservation of the Rural Heritage in the Canton of Jura).

literature

• Jeanne Bueche, Philippe Daucourt: Jeanne Bueche, architecte, exposition, Delémont du 4 au 26 octobre 1997 . Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne 1997, ISBN 2-88074-308-7 , p. 82 .
• Evelyne Lang: Les premières femmes architectes de Suisse, diss . Ecole Polytechnique federale de Lausanne, Lausanne 1992, p. 193-278 .

Web links

• Dominique Quadroni, Gertraud Gamper: Jeanne Bueche. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 4, 2003 , accessed April 30, 2020 .
• Entry on archinfom , accessed April 30, 2020.

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