Paul Artaria

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Paul Artaria (born August 6, 1892 in Basel , † September 25, 1959 in Heiden AR ) was a Swiss architect and trainer of designers. Its role on the threshold of the new building , in particular its efforts in constructive timber construction, helped the architectural style to spread in Switzerland.

Education and employment

Paul Artaria completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman in Basel from 1907 to 1910. He then continued his education there at the general trade school. He gained further professional experience in Arlesheim in 1911 and in Lausanne in 1912. In 1913 he got a job that shaped his career with the head architect of the Basel construction company, Hans Bernoulli , who had just returned from Berlin and was at the height of his influence . He worked for this town-planning architect until 1920, where he acquired his foundations in settlement construction.

At the beginning of his self-employment, he shared an office with Karl Zäslin from 1920 to 1923, a time when a few single-family and country houses were built. From 1923 he teamed up with Hans Schmidt , with whom he owned a joint architecture office from 1926 until bankruptcy in 1930, which distinguished itself with various settlements and individual houses in the sense of classical modernism. Initially, the Basel experimental buildings in the Habermatten were a contribution to the construction of small apartments, which they were later able to propagate in the Schorenmatten settlement at the WOBA of 1930 as a sub-project of the Eglisee settlement . During this time, Willi Wenk's house and studio (1926), as well as three of the first steel frame houses in Switzerland, the Colnaghi house from 1927, the Schaeffer house (1927/28), and the Huber house (1928) were built. In 1930 the house for single women was built in Basel.

Working alone again from 1930, from 1933 he belonged to the Basler Künstlervereinigung Gruppe 33 , with which he realized exhibitions and collective designs. Artaria accompanied the contemporary architectural development in Switzerland through numerous books. As a teacher at the arts and crafts department of the general trade school, Artaria gave lessons in perspective drawing and courses at the locksmith school. In 1947 he developed the new training plan for the specialist class for interior design. In his later work, he mainly carried out renovations, such as the Völkerkundemuseum (1952/53), the Predigerkirche (1953/54) and the Historical Museum (1956/57), all in Basel.

Own writings

  • Questions of New Building. Schönenberger & Gall, Winterthur 1934
  • Swiss wooden houses. Wepf, Basel 1936
  • On building and living - a picture book for laypeople and experts - the basics in 32 examples of Swiss houses made of stone, concrete and wood. Wepf, Basel 1939
  • Swiss wooden houses from the years 1920-1940. Wepf, Basel 1942
  • Paul Artaria and Egidius Streiff: Living well - a guide to practical home design. Wepf, Basel 1943
  • Holiday and Country Houses - Weekend and Country Houses. Verlag für Architektur, Erlenbach 1947
  • Perspective drawing - space and form theory in commercial lessons. Wepf, Basel 1948
  • Ironwork - from the Swiss locksmith school in Basel. Wepf, Basel 1950

literature

  • Ursula Suter: Artaria, Paul . In: Isabelle Rucki, Dorothee Huber (Hrsg.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 24 f.

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supporting documents

  1. Paul Artaria: The Basel experimental buildings in the "Habermatten" . In: Swiss magazine for housing . tape 1 , no. 3 . Neuland-Verlag, 1926, p. 25th f ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-100156 .
  2. Hans Bernoulli: The Eglisee residential colony as an exhibition settlement for WOBA Basel 1930 . In: The work . tape 17 , no. 10 . Neuland-Verlag, 1930, p. 308 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-100156 .
  3. ^ Atelierhaus Wenk on the mobile website of Heimatschutz Basel
  4. Colnaghi House
  5. House Wenke stockpile in Riehen near Basel. In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung, Vol. 91, 1928, p. 146
  6. Schaeffer House
  7. Huber House
  8. ^ Paul Artaria: Maisons pour dames seules "To the new singer" à Bâle . In: Habitation . tape 3 , no. 2 , 1930, p. 9 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-119133 .