Marc Piccard

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Marc Piccard (born July 9, 1905 in Lausanne ; died December 6, 1989 in Saint-Sulpice ) was a Swiss architect and painter .

Education and career

Marc Piccard studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1925 to 1929 , Karl Moser and Otto R. Salvisberg are named as important teachers, although he did not teach in Zurich until 1930. After a brief employment with Alphonse Laverrière in Lausanne, he worked for the Swiss Association for Internal Colonization and Industrial Agriculture in Einsiedeln in the mid-1930s , where he dealt with the rationalization of the rural house , among other things on the occasion of the relocation of farms due to the construction of the Etzelwerk busy.

In 1934 he won the competition for a lido in Lausanne-Ouchy, the Bellerive-Plage, a 280-meter-long building complex that was already exemplary to contemporaries as a “manifesto of an idea ... as a whole ... that acts as such and so on is experienced, and in which each part takes its well-considered place. " The bathroom, a key work of the architect, which he expanded in 1962 and renovated by Devanthéry and Lamunière in 1993 , is a cultural asset of national importance in Switzerland.

At the beginning of the 1950s, he built the Grange-Verney agricultural school in Moudon - also resulting from a competition . The Belvédère school complex followed until 1955. Here, too, as in the buildings for the medical faculty of the University of Lausanne (1959), there is "the same clarity of forms and proportions and the will to perfection down to the last detail". In 1968 Piccard ended his career as an architect to devote himself entirely to painting.

Works (selection)

  • Bellerive-Plage , Lido, Ouchy 1937
  • Grange-Verney Agricultural School , Moudon 1951
  • Belvédère Secondary School , Lausanne 1952–1965
  • Faculty of Medicine , University of Lausanne 1959
  • Bellefleur-Boisy , school complex, Lausanne 1960
  • Municipal power station , Morges 1962–1965

literature

  • Inès Lamunière: Piccard, Marc. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 422
  • Fréderic Brugger, François Neyroud: Marc Piccard, architecte . In: Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . tape 111 , no. 3 , 1990, p. B12 ( online ).

supporting documents

  1. ^ Marc Piccard: The Schafhalde, a primitive agricultural settlement near Einsiedeln . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 106 , no. 11 , 1935, pp. 122-124 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-47484 .
  2. ^ NN: The Bellerive-Plage lido in Lausanne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 111 , no. 18 , 1938, p. 230-124 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-49848 .
  3. ↑ Werner Jegher : Monumental architecture: Comments on the beach Bellerive-Plage . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 111 , no. 18 , 1938, p. 233-234 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-49848 .
  4. ^ NN: The Cantonal Agricultural School Grange-Verney near Moudon . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 69 , no. 40 , 1951, pp. 555–557 with two panels , doi : 10.5169 / seals-58930 .
  5. ^ Marc Piccard: Le groupe scolaire du Belvédère à Lausanne . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 74 , no. 50 , 1956, pp. 769-773 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-62758 .
  6. ↑ Frederic Brugger, François Neyroud: Marc Piccard, architecte . In: Ingénieurs et architectes suisses . tape 111 , no. 3 , 1990, p. B12 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Piccard, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1989
Place of death Saint-Sulpice VD