Richard Haechler

Richard Hächler (born February 8, 1897 in Lenzburg ; died March 22, 1966 in Aarau ) was a Swiss architect .

life and work

The son of a master carpenter obtained his school-leaving certificate at the Aarau Cantonal School in 1917 ; During his time at high school, he had already completed a year and a half as a bricklayer. He finished his studies at the ETH Zurich in 1921 with a diploma under Karl Moser . The following year he went to the Netherlands for a stay abroad, although it is not known who he worked for, but he was probably traveling with Hans Hofmann , Hans Schmidt and others. In 1922 he returned to his native Lenzburg for a building contract, opened another office in Aarau in 1929 and in 1949 together with Ernst Pfeiffer in Zurich.

Hächler, who was committed to the New Building , initially lost public building contracts, namely the district schools in Baden and Lenzburg, through his insistence on modern stylistic elements. After the construction of a number of single-family houses, the factories of the Wisa-Gloria-Werke in Lenzburg and Bruggisser in Wohlen were published as the first larger buildings. He then built several schools, hospitals in Aarau and Zofingen, other industrial and silo buildings as well as residential buildings, for example for the construction and woodworkers' association.

Selection of works

• House in Zelgli , Aarau 1926
• Schoolhouse , Niederlenz 1927
• Hellmühle , Silos, Wildegg 1929, added 1940
• Wisa-Gloria-Werke , Lenzburg 1930, topped up in 1943
• District Hospital , Zofingen 1944
• Eye Clinic , Aarau Cantonal Hospital, 1944
• Local history museum , extension, Aarau 1945
• District school , Rheinfelden 1949
• Trüb printing works , Aarau 1959
• Hero Conserven , various extensions, Lenzburg
• Swiss linen industry , Niederlenz, undated
• Disch and sons , Othmarsinge, no. J.
• Kunath Futtermittel , Aarau, undated
• Birrfeld airfield , o. J.

literature

• Edith Hunziker: Richard Hächler. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Walter Zschokke : Hächler, Richard. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 , p. 245
• Ernst Pfeiffer: Richard Hächler . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 84 , no. 20 . Zurich 1966, p. 375 f . ( online [accessed March 20, 2016]).

supporting documents

1. ^ New factory building Bruggisser & Co, Wohlen . Architect R. Hächler Aarau. In: The work . tape 20 , no. 1 . Zurich 1933, p. 10, 11, 32 ( online [accessed March 22, 2016]).

Web links

• Richard Haechler. In: arch INFORM .