Lisbeth Sachs

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The focal point: the filigree foyer of the Kurtheater Baden

Lisbeth Sachs (born May 12, 1914 in Neuenhof ; † August 13, 2002 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect . She is widely cited as one of the early formative architects in Swiss architectural history.

education

Lisbeth Sachs was a regular guest in Berta Tappolet and Luise Meyer-Strasser's studio in Zurich while attending school in Baden . The daughter of an engineer then studied architecture at the ETH Zurich , where she graduated from Salvisberg in 1939 . Other important teachers were also Dunkel and Friedrich Hess. During her studies she did an internship in Stockholm with Sven Ivar Lind , who was highly regarded at the time , where she drew plans for the Swedish pavilion at the 1937 World's Fair , the filigree construction of which inspired her very much. She also went to Helsinki to work with Alvar Aalto , an architect whose work she employed for life and worked in Switzerland for the architects Alfred Roth and Salvisberg's successor Roland Rohn in Zurich, with Hermann Baur in Basel and with Hans Brechbühler in Bern. In addition, she was able to open her own office as early as 1939 by winning the competition for a spa theater in Baden .

plant

The Kurtheater in Baden spa park was due to the war until the early 1950s to run. The central spatial component of the design is the foyer, which, with a filigree glass façade oriented towards the outdoors, leads the visitor from the cloakrooms in a promenade architecturale through the park, before entering the auditorium. The building was already classified as an important contribution to the theater construction of the 1950s. The architect Otto Dorer, who was only second in the competition, was commissioned as a working group to carry out the building, which has meanwhile been classified as a cultural asset of national importance , which is considered her main work and which was honored in detail in the discussion about the necessary restoration at the beginning of the 21st century. Otherwise, her projects for public clients were often put on the back burner or not approved for execution: In addition to a round church in Zurich, she worked on more than twenty other projects that were ultimately unbuilt, for example for commercial buildings, a floating youth house in Zurich's Seebucht in 1971, a settlement in Feusisberg 1968 and in Wollerau 1972–74.

At SAFFA 58 in Zurich, the second Swiss women's exhibition, for which she also wrote the review in the architectural trade journal Werk , she built the art gallery, three round pavilions of different diameters, the dissolved outer walls of which were formed by concrete wall panels as image carriers for the works of art, which are centripetal in the landscape, allowing views and exits, and the roof of which was formed by an umbrella-like stretched plastic film that allowed light and shadow to enter the surroundings. In general, she repeatedly wrote reviews and reflections on architecture and art in daily newspapers and specialist magazines, and thus got involved in the ongoing debate.

On the other hand, she succeeded in several - also published - buildings for private clients such as the house in Thalwil in 1952, and often wooden structures such as the holiday home on Lake Hallwiler. According to her biographer, she worked on these works in her one-woman office, in which an apprentice or draftsman was rarely employed, otherwise she did everything herself and changed or decided many things on the construction site. She saw herself as an idealist in the construction profession who met her budget meticulously, but had no “flair for profitable jobs” herself.

Works (selection)

  • Kurtheater , Baden, 1951–52, competition project 1939, with Otto Dorer
  • Heinrich House , Baden, 1950–51
  • Single-family house , Thalwil , 1952
  • Chapel , renovation, Böttstein , 1957
  • Art gallery for the SAFFA (Swiss Exhibition for Women's Work), Zurich, 1958 (canceled)
  • Hirzel weekend home , Meilen , 1963
  • House Ganz and House Geitlinger , Dielsdorf , 1964
  • Spörri House , Knonau , 1964
  • Holiday home , Aesch , 1967
  • Bühler House , Blauen , 1969
  • Strauss House , Niederhasli , 1979–80

literature

  • Evelyne Lang Jakob: Lisbeth Sachs . Article in: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. S. 466. Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2
  • Stanislaus von Moos: Doyenne of the Swiss architects. Lisbeth Sachs died on August 13th at the age of 88. , Obituary in: Werk, Bauen und Wohnen, Vol. 89 (2002), No. 10 P. 2 f. On-line
  • Evelyne Lang Jakob: On the life and work of Lisbeth Sachs. Obituary in: Tec21, Vol. 128 (2002) No. 43 P. 32 f. On-line
  • Evelyne Lang: Les premières femmes architectes de Suisse. (PhD thesis) Lausanne: EPFL 1992. doi : 10.5075 / epfl-thesis-1079
  • Ursina Jakob: A woman's life for architecture. Lisbeth Sachs on her 80th birthday. In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen Vol. 81 (1994) No. 6 P. 78 doi : 10.5169 / seals-61580

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Stanislaus von Moos: Doyenne der Schweizer Architekten , obituary in: Werk, Bauen und Wohnen, Vol. 89 (2002), No. 10 p. 2 f.
  2. ↑ So z. B. the doctoral thesis of her biographer Evelyne Lang (-Jakob), Les premières femmes architectes de Suisse .
  3. ↑ Ursina Jakob: A woman's life for architecture. Lisbeth Sachs on her 80th birthday. In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen Vol. 81 (1994) No. 6 P. 78, doi : 10.5169 / seals-61580
  4. ↑ a b c d Evelyne Lang Jakob: On the life and work of Lisbeth Sachs. Obituary in: Tec21, Bd. 128 (2002) No. 43 p. 32 f.
  5. ↑ Christof Wieser: Poetry and Abstraction. P. 62. In Werk, Bauen und Wohnen, Vol. 89 (2002), No. 6, pp. 60–64.
  6. ↑ Lisbeth Sachs: Grace and strength. Remembering Alvar Aalto. Obituary in: NZZ of May 18, 1976, pp. 37–38.
  7. ↑ Competitions Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Vol. 114 (1939) No. 17 p. 201.
  8. ^ The new spa theater in Baden. 1950/52, Architectural Association Lisbeth Sachs SIA and Otto Dorer SIA, Baden in: Werk, 39 (1952), No. 9, pp. 286–290. doi : 10.5169 / seals-30275
  9. ↑ So z. B. in the book review in the Werk-Chronik Vol. 36 (1949) on: Swiss Society for Theater Culture (Ed.): Theaters yesterday and today. Volksverlag Elgg, 1948. Online
  10. ↑ A-Objects AG 2018 . Swiss inventory of cultural assets of national importance. In: babs.admin.ch / kulturgueterschutz.ch. Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP - Department of Cultural Property Protection, January 1, 2018, accessed on December 26, 2017 (PDF; 127 kB, 23 pages, updated annually, no changes for 2018).
  11. ↑ The fulcrum. The Kurtheater Baden by Lisbeth Sachs In: Tec21, Vol. 131 (2005) No. 35 pp. 5– ?. doi : 10.5169 / seals-108608
  12. ↑ a b Lisbeth Sachs: SAFFA 1958 in Zurich 2nd exhibition "The Swiss woman , her life, her work" in: Werk, Vol. 45 (1958) No. 10 pp. 352–363; doi : 10.5169 / seals-35086 incorrectly stated in the online source Annemarie Hubacher , the chief architect of the exhibition, as the author. The art pavilion is described on p. 356.
  13. ↑ Ursina Jakob: A woman's life for architecture. Lisbeth Sachs on her 80th birthday. In: Werk, Bauen + Wohnen Vol. 81 (1994) No. 6 P. 78 doi : 10.5169 / seals-61580
  14. ^ House in Thalwil. 1952, Lisbeth Sachs SWB, architect SIA, Baden . in: Werk, Vol. 42 (1955) No. 7 p. 216. doi : 10.5169 / seals-32529
  15. ↑ Holiday home and retirement home on Lake Hallwylersee: architect Lisbeth Sachs . in: Werk, Vol. 56 (1969) No. 1 p. 30. doi : 10.5169 / seals-87245
personal data
SURNAME Sachs, Lisbeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuenhof
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2002
Place of death Zurich