Max Schlup

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Max Schlup (born July 9, 1917 in Lengnau BE ; † February 11, 2013 in Biel BE ) was a Swiss architect .

Biel Congress Center, Max Schlup's main work

Life

Max Schlup, the son of a body fitter and carpenter, attended elementary schools in Biel, learned structural draftsman and studied architecture from 1933 to 1939 with a diploma at the Technikum Biel. After military service and practical work, partly abroad, he opened his own architecture office in Biel in 1948.

Initially, his work had the traditional Heimat style. After his travels to South America in the fifties, where he got to know the emerging Brasília and Oscar Niemeyer , his view changed to modern architecture. With his like-minded colleagues from the so-called Solothurn School , Alfons Barth , Hans Zaugg , Franz Füeg and Fritz Haller , he shared the emphasis on geometrical order and the preference for contemporary materials such as steel and glass.

His greatest work, the Biel Congress Center with swimming pool and attached high-rise, was and is still a (not by everyone) admired cultural asset of national importance . The buildings of the seventies were already in need of renovation after 30 years due to insufficient air conditioning. Benedikt Loderer says, freely quoted: “ According to the usual way of thinking, the architect is to blame for structural damage, but you can't build anything new without making mistakes. Otherwise one would have to build, as was already practiced several times before ». Another important building is the Biel-Seeland high school , which was built in 1980. The school and administration buildings in Schlups were built exclusively in Biel and in the area of ​​the southern foot of the Jura. Despite this local limitation, he made an important contribution to Swiss post-war architecture.

buildings

Most important selection

  • 1956, Farel parish hall, Oberer Quai 12, Biel
  • 1959, own house, Tessenbergstrasse, Biel
  • 1962, primary school in Champagne, Biel
  • 1966, Congress Center Biel, Zentralstrasse 69, Biel
  • 1970, school building of the Swiss Federal Gymnastics and Sports School, Hauptstrasse 247, Magglingen
  • 1970, "Mother and Child" dormitory, Seevorstadt, Biel
  • 1976, End der Welt sports hall, Magglingen
  • 1976–1977, secondary school buildings in Kleindietwil (from March 8, 2013)
  • 1980, Strandboden high school, Ländtestrasse 12, Biel (most massive interventions in 2016)

Archival material

literature

  • Jürg Graser, Filled Void. Building the school in Solothurn: Barth, Zaugg, Schlup, Füeg, Haller . gta Verlag, Zurich 2014, ISBN 978-3-85676-281-0
  • Architekturforum Biel, Max Schlup , Niggli Verlag, Sulgen. New edition: June 2013, ISBN 978-3-7212-0786-6
  • Ulricke Jehle-Schulte Strathaus, The Solothurn School , Bauen + Wohnen, Swiss Edition, Volume 68, Page 11
  • Salvatore Aprea, "Le Palais des Congrès de Bienne par Max Schlup, 1955-1957. De la trame uniform à la structure monumentale", in: Matières , vol. 13, p. 160-169, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Max Schlup  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürg Martin Graser, The School of Solothurn. The contribution by Alfons Barth, Hans Zaugg, Max Schlup, Franz Füeg ​​and Fritz Haller to Swiss architecture in the second half of the 20th century, Diss.ETHZ 2008
  2. ↑ Bauen + Wohnen , catalog raisonné
  3. ↑ Report of the monument protection authority on the renovation of the Kleindietwil school (PDF; 5.4 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Slip, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect of the "Solothurn School"
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengnau BE
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2013
Place of death Biel BE