Rudolf Olgiati

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Rudolf Olgiati (born September 7, 1910 in Chur ; † September 25, 1995 in Flims ) was a Swiss architect .

Life

Rudolf Olgiati was the son of the lawyer Oreste Olgiati and a citizen of Poschiavo and Chur . In 1927 he graduated from the Bündner Kantonsschule in Chur. He then studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich , where he graduated in art history from Josef Zemp in 1934 . From 1935 to 1937 a longer stay in Rome followed. Rudolf Olgiati then worked as an architect, first in Zurich and from 1944 in Flims , where he had already acquired and converted a house from the family estate in 1930. His son Valerio Olgiati also works as an architect and now lives in Flims in his father's house.

Main features of his work

Rudolf Olgiati was a representative of the New Objectivity and one of the first to discover the importance and effectiveness of historical design principles for modern architecture in the mid-1950s . He mainly built single-family houses in the mountainous Grisons and restored old patrician and farm houses , later also buildings in southern France and Germany together with Alfred Werner Maurer .

His cubic design language moved in the area of ​​tension between the local Graubünden building tradition, Greek antiquity and a modern age that was primarily oriented towards Le Corbusier . He was striving for a universal, timeless and radically modern building that documents the influence of international architecture as well as the autochthonous of Swiss architecture and is always aware of its ideological and formal references. For Olgiati, who never wanted to see the recourse to traditional elements as restorative, the architecture unites with local tradition and with the place as such, which he claimed to "create" anew by establishing an intimate relationship between architecture and the local society .

His work was exhibited at the ETH Zurich in 1977, at the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg in 1986, at the Technical University of Berlin in 1986 and at the Linz Art University in 1988 . In 1981 he received the Culture Prize of the Canton of Graubünden. In 1988 a documentary was made about Rudolf Olgiati, who also repeatedly intervened in the architecture debate with controversial theses. His comment "Ignorant kitsch brothers are destroying our homeland" on the new appearance of the Arcas Square in Chur, which he believes has been "renovated to death", attracted widespread attention.

Works

Residential buildings
  • Casa Matta, Flims-Waldhaus 1955
  • Apartment house Las Caglias, Flims-Waldhaus 1959–1960
  • House B. Savoldelli (originally D. Witzig), Flims-Waldhaus 1966
  • Van der Ploeg Lavanuz House, Laax 1966–1967
  • House van Heusden Lavanuz, Laax 1967–1968
  • House Dr. Allemann, Unterwasser, Wildhaus 1968–1969
  • Single family house Erhard "Sur Viladas" Sagogn 1971
  • Residential development "Cittadeta" Savognin, competition 1971
  • Apartment house Casa Radulff, Flims-Waldhaus 1971–1972
  • “Amiez” apartment building, conversion of the cardboard factory and Reuss Gate to apartments, Flims-Dorf 1971–1977
  • Urech commercial nursery, Chur 1972–1973
  • Rogosky I-Mercantale House, Tuscany 1972–1973
  • Old people's and small apartments "Candrian", Sagens 1974
  • Tschaler House, Chur 1974–1977
  • House Dr. Schorta, Tamins 1975-1976
  • House Weiss (originally Gerstlauer), Kaltenbach TG 1978–1979
  • Villa Sarraz, F-Les Issambres, Côte d'Azur 1986–1989, with Alfred Werner Maurer
  • Casutt House, Ilanz 1984
  • Hotel Casutt, restaurant renovation, Ilanz 1986
  • G. Rensch house (originally Dr. Thoma), Walenstadt 1988
  • Winterberg residential building Saarbrücken 1988–1989, with AW Maurer
  • Renovation of the 'Schlössli', Morissen, 1989–1991
  • Apartment building Bebié, Morissen, 1990
  • Single family home, Dr. Bühlmann, Hilterfingen BE, 1993
Projects
  • School complex "Prisma" Schamserberg, Donath competition 1976
  • Renovation of downtown Chur 1980–1982
  • Buendner Kunstmuseum Chur, competition 1982
  • Theater and Museum, Flims-Dorf, competition 1987
  • House remodeling, book tower and picture gallery Saarbrücken 1988–1989, with AW Maurer
  • Hill house in Saarbrücken 1988, with AW Maurer
  • Cultural Center Yellow House Flims-Dorf, competition 1992–1994
  • Tourist center valley station, Flims-Dorf 1994
  • Olgiati Museum, Flims-Waldhaus 1994, 1996

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Projects at www.detail360.de ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.detail360.de
  2. ↑ see Institute Architecture Nice
  3. ↑ see Institute Architecture Nice
  4. ↑ Seraina Gaudenz in Weltwoche 09/1990
  5. ↑ Hermann Lübbe: In the train of time - shortened stay in the present . 3rd edition: Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-00202-4 . (P. 64)
  6. ↑ Hermann Lübbe: Practical Historicism: To the Philosophy of Monument Protection . In Gudrun Kühne-Bertram, Hans-Ulrich Lessing, Volker Steenblock: Understanding culture: On the history and theory of the humanities . Königshausen & Neumann, 2003, ISBN 3826024109 , ISBN 9783826024108 . (P. 135)
personal data
SURNAME Olgiati, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olgiati-Schneider, Rodolfo; Olgiati, Rodolfo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Chur
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1995
Place of death Flims