Maurice Turrettini
Maurice Turrettini (born July 24, 1878 in Geneva , † October 25, 1932 in Groisy ) was a Swiss architect.
Life
Maurice Turrettini was born on July 24, 1878 in Geneva, the son of the banker Albert Turrettini and his wife Edmée. His ancestors originally came from Lucca in Tuscany and had come to Calvinist Geneva in 1578 as religious refugees . The family tree of the Turrettini family includes bankers as well as theologians such as Jean-Alphonse and François Turrettini .
After graduating from high school , he studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich . His teachers included Benjamin Recordon , builder of the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne and professor at the Polytechnic from 1890 to 1916, as well as Gustav Gull , former city architect of Zurich and professor from 1900 to 1929.
After completing his studies and returning to Geneva, he married Justine de Watteville (born July 3, 1879 in Bern, † 1967) from the Bernese patrician family von Wattenwyl in 1904 . In the following year he founded the architecture office Revilliod-Turrettini with the architect Guillaume Revilliod (born February 2, 1877 in Geneva; † February 8, 1961 in Paris), which existed until 1920. In the years that followed, the office made a name for itself with the construction and renovation of bank and administration buildings as well as single and multi-family houses. In addition to the renovation of country estates in the environs of Geneva and in the neighboring French department of Haute-Savoie , the two architects also designed factory buildings, especially during the First World War.
In 1907 Maurice Turrettini took part in the discussion about the location of the Reformation monument planned for the 400th birthday of Johannes Calvin in Geneva . In 1911 he joined the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects . Turrettini was also a member of the comité permanent international des architectes and a corresponding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects .
In the sporting field, Turrettini was successful as a ten-time winner of the Swiss tennis championships.
He died at his castle in Boisy on October 25, 1932 at the age of 54.
power
In his renovations and extensions of castles and country estates, Turrettini was guided and inspired by the local historical models in the area around Geneva and in Haute-Savoie. He used the same style in some cases for new buildings and thus served the rather conservative taste of the building owners. He preferred to use modern forms in his bank and commercial buildings - in this context the Credit Suisse bank building on Rue de la Conféderation in the modern style , which he executed together with the Swiss concrete construction pioneer, civil engineer Robert Maillart , is particularly noteworthy .
Buildings by Maurice Turrettini (selection)
| 1905 | Renovation of the Petit-Cara estate , Route des Eaux-Belles 36–36, Cara |
| 1915-1919 | Reconstruction of the parish church of Vandœuvres , Place de Vandœuvres 1, Vandœuvres |
| 1922-1923 | Bank building Hentsch & Cie., Rue de la Corraterie 15–17, Geneva |
| 1923 | Restoration of the Merlinge estate with new construction of the orangery, Route de Bellebouche 70–74, Merlinge |
| 1929-1932 | Crédit Suisse bank building , Rue de la Conféderation 1, Geneva |
Buildings by the architectural office Revilliod-Turrettini (selection)
| 1909-1910 | Villa Bois Caran , Collonge-Bellerive for the writer Alfred Chenevière |
| 1910-1911 | Villa, Route de la Capite 91, Coligny for the banker Arthur Chenevière |
| 1912 | 2nd prize in the competition for the musée d'histoire naturelle, Geneva |
| 1913 | Estate Bois d'Avault , Route de Collex 89, Valavran for Edmond Achard |
| 1914-1915 | Tram stop Rue de Montblanc / Rue Chantepoulet, Geneva |
| 1915-1917 | Villa Am Römerholz , Haldenstrasse 95, Winterthur ; built for Henri Sulzer-Ziegler, acquired by the art collector Oskar Reinhart in 1924 and expanded in 1924/25 with the addition of a private museum for his painting collection, today accessible as the Oskar Reinhart collection "Am Römerholz" |
| 1915-1925 | Reconstruction of Tournay Castle, Pregny-Chambésy for the Geneva art collector Alfred Baur |
| 1917-1919 | Renovation and extension of the Hôtel des Bergues , Quai des Bergues 33, Geneva |
| 1917-1919 | Administration building for Piccard-Pictet & Cie ( Pic-Pic ), Rue de Montblanc 3, Geneva; after a short time it was converted into a hotel for the delegates of the League of Nations |
| 1918-1919 | Industrial and administrative building Gardi SA, avenue de la Jonction 6-10, Geneva |
literature
- Obituary in Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande , 58 (1932)
- Isabelle Rucki among others: Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland: 19./20. Century. Verlag Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 462/463.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilhelm Oechsli: Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Federal Polytechnic with an overview of its development. Huber & Co., Frauenfeld 1905, p. 351.
- ↑ Source: Société Genevoise de Généalogie (French)
- ↑ Pierre A. Frey: Le Mouvement international de la Réformation, les conditions de la commande d'une sculpture monumentale, Genève 1902–1917 (French) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective . Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Turrettini, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 25, 1932 |
| Place of death | Groisy |