Bruno Giacometti
Bruno Giacometti ( born August 24, 1907 in Borgonovo in Stampa, today Bregaglia; † 21 March 2012 Zollikon ) was a Swiss architect. He was involved among other things, instrumental in the construction of the Hallenstadion in Zurich and was the architect of the town house of Uster.
Life
Bruno Giacometti grew up in Stampa in südbündnerischen Bergell the youngest of four children of the painter Giovanni Giacometti and his wife Annetta Stampa (1871-1964) on. His godfather was the Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler. The oldest brother Alberto Giacometti came with its sculptures, drawings and his painting to world fame.
From 1926 to 1930 he studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, after which he worked in the architectural firm of Charles Egender.
Bruno Giacometti participated in 1955-1965 at Kunsthaus Zurich in the design of several exhibitions and on the foundation of the native to the Kunsthaus Alberto Giacometti Foundation. The Kunsthaus The work of Alberto Giacometti received its own premises due to a donation Bruno Giacometti, who gave his wife Odette the Alberto Giacometti Foundation in two large groups of works, sculptures, oil paintings and drawings by his brother included. Another donation contained 75 original plaster casts and 15 bronze sculptures.
Most important buildings
Among the most important buildings he realized mainly in the cantons of Zurich and the Grisons in 1940, includes a number of single-family houses, housing estates, schools and community centers, post office, hospitals and exhibition buildings. A selection of the most significant works:
- Hallenstadion, Zurich ( work in the office Egender )
- Textile Department, Swiss National Exhibition Zurich, 1939 ( work in the office Egender )
- Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (1951 /52)
- Housing estates in Bergell for the staff of the valley's power plants ( Zurich city) in Castasegna ( settlement " Brentan ") and in Vicosoprano, schoolhouse Stampa, post office Maloja.
- Zurich: " Hygiene Institute " ( Preventive Medicine ), extension to the Kunsthaus Zurich.
- Townhouse, Uster
- District Hospital, Dielsdorf
- First ecumenical church in Switzerland on the grounds of Epi Clinic Zurich ( 1967-71 )
- Grisons Museum of Nature, Chur; one of his last buildings
In 1945 he built in Uster on the railway road 33, a doctor's house with practice and residential premises. The building has a T-shaped floor plan arrangement, which had a role model for the town house of Uster. The provided with generous outdoor spaces of the town house of plant type has been included in the inventory of the protection of valuable buildings of Uster.
The international breakthrough Bruno Giacometti with his victorious competition project for the construction of the Swiss Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 1951/52. The extensive coverage of a construction project meant for Giacometti that the form-finding had to be bound to the function that had to meet a building.
Buildings Giacometti
Townhouse of Uster
Grisons Nature Museum Chur
Church of the epi- clinic in Zurich
Boldern, Männedorf