Otto Glaus

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Otto Glaus (born on December 17, 1914 in Uzwil ; died on September 30, 1996 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect who, among other things, became known for his highly sculptural, exposed concrete educational, residential and cult buildings. He was a co-founder of the Association of Swiss Interior Architects .

Education and early employment

Glaus, who grew up in Heiden in the Appenzell region , came from a family of farmers and hosts. He first learned to be a wallpaperer in Arosa and then worked as a craftsman in Basel for two years before starting to study interior design at the arts and crafts school in 1936 . The following year, on the recommendation of his teacher Wilhelm Kienzle, he went to Paris to work for Le Corbusier for a year. Through his mediation, Glaus became a member of the CIAM . Back in Switzerland, he worked as a site manager on various pavilions at the Swiss National Exhibition in Zurich in 1939 . At the same time he graduated from high school . He came so relatively late to study architecture, he studied from 1941 to 1945 at the ETH Zurich with a diploma under Hans Hofmann . During his studies, Glaus shared an office with Oskar Burri from Central Switzerland , who had also been a trained craftsman and was with Le Corbusier and who now attended lectures at the ETH as a specialist auditor. This collaboration resulted in simple but original timber frame houses and, in collaboration with Jacques Schader , winning the competition for the Zurich Women's Clinic, a project that was ultimately not realized.

Various studios over the course of his career

In 1945, after completing their training, they parted ways and Glaus opened his own office in Zurich. In the course of his further career, however, he repeatedly worked with others - and from the mid-1950s had several offices with different architects as partners, sometimes next to each other: since 1952 the branch in Heiden, 1954 to 1993 together with Heribert Stadlin (1926-2012) Glaus & Stadlin in St. Gallen, from 1963 to 1967 with Hans-Ruedi Lienhard (1925–1974) Glaus & Lienhard. From 1971 to 1987 there was finally the partnership Glaus, Allemann and Partner (with Bert Allemann (* 1923), Bringolf, Freiburghaus, Stünzi).

Single family homes

At the beginning of his career, when he published magazine articles about his ideas about living, for example for a hunting lodge and the house of a collector of Egyptian art, he tried, among other things, to market a small Appenzeller house as a type design, but there was no response. Also in the first decade of his career, several single-family houses followed, around 1955 the stately Villa Stoffel in Heerbrugg or the house Bernath, between vines in Thayngen. His last single-family house was built in 1961, the Monney house for a sculptor with a large studio at Greifensee.

Apartment buildings, commercial buildings

In the course of his career, Glaus built a large number of apartment buildings, starting with two in Zurich. The Riesbacherhof from 1954, an apartment house for single people, cleverly aligns the majority of all living spaces towards the park, where a folded facade provides orientation. The closed side of the street forms a composition of brick elements, which are framed by plastered surfaces. One year later, in 1955, a residential and commercial building was built on Dolderstrasse, the L-shaped structure of which is structured by horizontal strips of facade. The space situation that would have resulted from the planned second building could not be realized. A little later, the Ankerhof in Zurich was built in 1957, a reinforced concrete skeleton cube whose ribbon facades with horizontally emphasized wooden profiles run in front of the supporting structure, the Palazzo Ferrari in Ticino (Chiasso, 1957), in which the facade is also the structural element and the city houses in St. Gallen, a composition of several parallel nine-storey lines.

Sacred buildings

After the Catholic Church in Meilen from 1951, a basilica, single-nave building to which Glaus added a strongly sculptural bell tower in 1969, he planned the Assumption Chapel in Schwendi in the Weisstannental in 1953 .

State planning, larger building complexes

Glaus was involved in regional planning from the start of his career.

Works (selection)

  • Stapfenhaus , Köniz 1943 (with Oskar Burri)
  • Hotel Metropol , St. Gallen 1947-50
  • Huber House , Riehen 1948–49
  • Frauentalweg settlement, Zurich 1949/1950
  • Senn House , Vaduz 1950–51
  • Catholic Church , Meilen 1950–51, bell tower 1969
  • Bernath House , Thayngen 1953
  • Schuler House , Küsnacht 1951–52
  • Assumption of Mary , Schwendi Chapel, Weisstannental 1953
  • Riesbacherhof , apartment house, Zurich 1953–54
  • House Dolderstr. , Residential and office building, Zurich 1954–55
  • Stoffel house , single-family home, Heerbrugg 1954–55
  • Hausmann AG , Chemical Factory, Bruggen 1954–55, heavily changed
  • Kurzentrum Ragaz , thermal baths and hotel planning, complete renovation, Bruggen 1954–75, changed
  • Ankerhof , commercial building, Zurich 1955–56
  • Palazzo Ferrari , Chiasso 1955–57
  • Eternit Vertriebs-AG , warehouse, Zurich 1955–56, greatly changed
  • Hedingen School , New School House, Hedingen 1955–57
  • Kursaal , Heiden 1956–57
  • Aeroporto di Lugano , Agno 1956–58, greatly changed
  • City Houses , St. Gallen 1956–59
  • Missionshaus Bethlehem , extension, Immensee 1957–59
  • Vacation homes , Walzenhausen 1959–60
  • Monney House , single-family home with sculptor's studio , Greifensee 1959–61
  • Cantonal school at Burggraben , extension, St. Gallen 1963–81
  • Spa center Baden , thermal bath and hotel planning Greifensee 1963–81
  • Work year school building , Zurich-Hardau 1963–64
  • Franziskushaus , Bildungszentrum, Dulliken 1967–69
  • Jakobsgut settlement , apartment buildings, Zurich 1966–69
  • Benziwil settlement , large settlement, Emmen 1966–95
  • Asphof , residential complex, Zurich 1967–68
  • Konvikt of the Bündner Kantonsschule , boarding school, Chur 1967–69
  • Bäderklinik , Valens 1968–69
  • Cantonal school , Wattwil 1968–70
  • Stadtspital , Wil 1968–70
  • Hurden settlement, housing development , Pfäffikon 1970–74
  • Indoor swimming pool Hotel Waldhaus , Sils-Maria 1970–71
  • Weisshornsattelhütte , Arosa 1971 (with Richard Brosi)
  • Kurhotel Heiden , Heiden 1972–74 (with Heribert Stadlin)

literature

  • Ueli Lindt: Otto Glaus, architect. Birkhäuser, Basel 1995. ISBN 3-7643-5591-3 .
  • Ueli Lindt: Otto Glaus in memory (Nekrolog) . In: Swiss engineer and architect . tape 114 , no. 43 , 1996, pp. 970 ( e-periodica.ch ).
  • Ueli Lindt: Glaus, Otto. In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 223 f.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Otto Glaus: A house for two sisters in Würenlos . In: Building + Living . tape 1–5, 1947–1949 , No. 2, 1948, pp. 30-31 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-327839 .
  2. ^ NN: Competition for a new gynecological clinic at the Zurich Cantonal Hospital . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 128 , no. 3 , 1946, pp. 31 ff . ( e-periodica.ch ).
  3. ^ Josef Osterwalder: With functional elegance. In: St.Galler Tagblatt. June 14, 2012, accessed April 21, 2014 .
  4. ^ Josef Osterwalder: Hans-Ruedi Lienhard. In: St.Galler Tagblatt. June 14, 2012, accessed April 21, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Otto Glaus: A hunting lodge in the Seeland . In: Building + Living . tape 1–5, 1947–1949 , No. 2, 1948, pp. 37 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-327812 .
  6. ↑ Otto Glaus: living room of a collector in Cairo . In: Building + Living . tape 1–5, 1947–1949 , No. 3, 1948, pp. 14 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-327866 .
  7. ↑ Schweizer Heimatschutz (Ed.): For sale: Villa Stoffel by Otto Glaus in Heerbrugg. ( heimatschutz.ch PDF).
  8. ^ NN: House in Thayngen . In: The work . tape 43 , no. 3 , 1956, pp. 37 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-33271 .
  9. ↑ Ernst Zietschmann: Apartment house Riesbacherhof, Zurich . In: Building + Living . tape 8 , no. 6 , 1954, pp. 358-360 and a construction sheet in the appendix , doi : 10.5169 / seals-328796 .
  10. ^ NN: Residential and commercial building on Dolderstrasse in Zurich . In: The work . tape 44 , no. 1 , 1957, pp. 8–11 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-34121 .
  11. ^ Ernst Zietzschmann: Ankerhof office building in Zurich . In: Building + Living . tape 11 , no. 10 , 1957, pp. 364-366 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-329601 .
  12. ^ NN: Palazzo Ferrari . In: Architecture, formes et fonctions . tape 7 , 1960, pp. 160-161 .
  13. ^ Otto Glaus: City Park development in St. Gallen . In: Werk . tape 46 , no. 9 , 1959, pp. 318-319 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-36014 .
  14. ^ NN: Chapel in Schwendi, Weisstannental . In: The work . tape 41 , no. 12 , 1954, pp. 464-465 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-31798 .
  15. ↑ Regional and state planning . In: The work . tape 33 , no. 9 , 1946, pp. * 118 * f . ( e-periodica.ch ).
personal data
SURNAME Glaus, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Uzwil
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1996
Place of death Zurich