Country style
The Landistil is an architecture and design style typical of Switzerland , which became known to the general public through buildings and exhibits at the Swiss National Exhibition in 1939 ("Landi") and was cultivated in the 1940s and 1950s.
characterization
The country style is characterized by a functional, objective, light and reduced design. On the one hand, it can be seen as a departure from the traditional or historicizing construction method, but on the other hand it is also in clear contrast to the monumental construction method of fascism , especially the architecture under National Socialism . Art history sees the country style as an expression of the Heimatschutz style .
Examples
The following buildings and objects are examples of the country style:
- Kongresshaus , Zurich ( Max Ernst Haefeli , Werner Max Moser , Rudolf Steiger )
- Max-Frisch-Bad , Zurich ( Max Frisch , Gustav Ammann )
- Bad Allenmoos , Zurich ( Max Ernst Haefeli , Werner Max Moser , Gustav Ammann )
- Urban housing estate Rautistrasse, Zurich ( Max Aeschlimann , Armin Baumgartner )
- Commercial building Limmatquai 68 (Modissa), Zurich ( Karl Egender , Wilhelm Müller )
- Landi chair ( Hans Coray )
- Brunnenmoos schoolhouse , Kilchberg ( Alfred Binggeli )
- Villa Nager as a rare example of wealthy residential building in country style, architects Gebrüder Pfister
literature
- Elisabeth Crettaz-Stürzel: Heimatstil. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .