Leo Hafner

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Leo Hafner (born September 17, 1924 in Zug ; died November 2, 2015 in Oberägeri ) was a Swiss architect , he was the design partner of the Hafner und Wiederkehr office, where he was responsible for construction from the 1950s to the 1980s of the canton of Zug .

Life

Leo Hafner was the son of a teacher couple from Zug. There he also attended primary and cantonal schools. Towards the end of school he was already working seriously as an artist, but from 1942 decided to study architecture at the ETH Zurich , during which, in addition to internships with the architects Hans Leupi and William Dunkel, he also practiced in loose succession in the studio of the Austrian sculptor Fritz Wotruba , who Emigrated to Switzerland in 1939. In 1944 he took part in the Premiers jeux académiques in Lausanne. In the same year until 1946 he had to interrupt his studies for recruit school and military service. After completing his studies in 1948, he entered into a partnership with Alfons Wiederkehr, nine years his senior , whom he had met through the artist Werner Andermatt . Although Hafner still worked as an assistant at Hans Hofmann's chair from 1949 , the partnership existed from 1948 until his death in 1985 and was then continued with his sons Alphons and Rolf and Georg Krummenacher. Hafner retired from professional life in 1994. The architect reviewed and approved the estate, including an artistic one, for a monograph from 2008 to 2009.

Hafner, member of the SIA and BSA , was a member of the Zug Building Committee from 1951 to 1978 and co-founder of the Zuger Kunstgesellschaft in 1957.

Hafner and return

Hafner was responsible for projects and competitions in the office, while Wiederkehr was responsible for execution and administration. Over the years, the office has won over thirty first prizes in architecture competitions and has carried out around a hundred buildings. After the first success, the main building of the Zuger Kantonalbank in one of the prominent squares of the canton's capital, which stood out for its strict but representative architectural language as well as the clever construction given by the difficult building ground, public contracts followed such as the Catholic Teachers' Seminar (today University of Education Zug ), the Children's Hospital in Zug or the Bernarda Teachers' Seminar in Menzingen. But the office was also successful in building representative single-family houses, for example for a businessman or a doctor. In addition, it planned a number of settlements, especially in the canton itself, such as the row house settlement of atrium houses on the Letzibach, the Herti cooperative settlement or the Fridbach high-rise buildings, but also a larger holiday home area in Mallorca, Porto Cristo Novo. In the 1970s and 1980s, for example, the St. Johannes church center in Zug, the commercial bank in Baden, the cantonal school, the Zugorama exhibition and training building followed.

List of works (selection)

  • Zuger Kantonalbank , Zug, competition 1949, executed 1955–58
  • Aarau Children's Hospital , Aarau, competition 1951, executed 1953–55
  • Sternmatt secondary school , Baar, competition 1951, executed 1955–57
  • Agricultural school , Cham, competition 1951, implementation 1970
  • Bossard House , Zug 1954
  • Rossel House , Baar 1954–55
  • Dalcher House , Zug 1955
  • Teachers' seminar Bernarda , Menzingen, project 1954, carried out 1955–58
  • Primary school , Rudolfstetten, competition 1956, executed 1958–59
  • Mito gas station , Sihlbrugg 1957–59
  • Primary school , Merenschwand, competition 1957, execution 1960–62
  • Graf House , Aeugst 1958
  • Teachers' seminar St. Michael , Zug, competition 1958, execution 1959–61
  • Mühlemann House , Steinhausen 1960
  • Bernhart House , Zug 1961
  • Guthirt parish hall , Zug, competition 1960, execution 1962–63
  • Houses U. and G. Theiler , Zug 1961
  • Meyer-Hegi House , Zug 1961–62
  • Fridbach , residential development, Zug, competition 1961, executed 1965–68
  • Cantonal school Luegeten , Zug, competition 1962, execution 1971–75
  • Kirchmatt school building , Zug, project 1962, execution 1963–67
  • Herti , 19 row single-family houses, Zug 1963–64
  • Porto Cristo Novo , holiday home development, Mallorca 1964–68
  • Loretohöhe , residential development, Zug 1973–75
  • Fridbach , residential development, Zug, competition 1961, executed 1965–68
  • Herti II , cooperative housing estate, Zug 1966–68
  • St. Johannes , Church Center, Zug, competition 1968, carried out 1968–71
  • Swiss Bank Corporation , Zug, competition 1968, execution 1980–84
  • Pollems House , Zug 1969–70
  • Commercial bank , headquarters, Baden 1969–72
  • Herti III , high-rise condominiums, Zug 1976–77
  • Upper school building Sternmatt II , Baar, competition 1976, execution 1984–91
  • Zugorama , V-Zug exhibition building, Zug, competition 1986, execution 1986–88
  • Eichstätte , residential and commercial building, Zug 1991–94
  • Plaza , residential and commercial building, Zug 1990–93

literature

  • Leo Hafner (Ed.): Leo Hafner Archive . Viktor Hotz Verlag, Steinhausen 2006. ISBN 978-3-9523499-3-9
  • Nicole Pfister: Hafner and Wiederkehr . In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 248 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries
  2. ^ Benedikt Huber : Kantonalbank Zug . In: Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst . tape 46 , no. 5 , 1959, pp. 176 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-35969 .
  3. ^ Leo Hafner: Catholic teachers seminar St. Michael, Zug . In: Building + Living . tape 16 , no. 7 , 1962, pp. 286 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-331249 .
  4. ^ Leo Hafner: House of a merchant in Zug . In: Building + Living . tape 16 , no. 12 , 1962, pp. 506 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-331343 .
  5. ↑ Ernst Zietschmann: a doctor's house in train . In: Building + Living . tape 17 , no. 6 , 1963, pp. 506 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-331622 .
  6. ^ NN: atrium houses . Single-family houses on the Letzibach in Zug. In: Building + Living . tape 23 , no. 9 , 1969, p. 310 f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-333661 .
  7. ↑ Ernst Zietschmann: Holiday Porto Christo Novo in Mallorca . Single-family houses on the Letzibach in Zug. In: Building + Living . tape 19 , no. 6 , 1965, pp. 233 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-332212 .
  8. ^ NN: Commercial Bank Baden . In: Werk . tape 60 , no. 8 , 1973, p. 945 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-87599 .
personal data
SURNAME Hafner, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Zug (city) , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 2015
Place of death Oberägeri