Gustav Ammann
Gustav Ammann ( born July 9, 1885 in Zurich, † March 23, 1955 ) was a Swiss landscape architect, the Garden Architecture in Switzerland decisively influenced in the first half of the 20th century, especially by numerous pioneering publications.
Life
Between 1901 and 1903 Gustav Ammann learned the gardener career in the prestigious garden and landscape construction company Froebel 's heirs in Zurich. From 1905 to 1911 he studied at the art and craft school Magdeburg and worked for the offices of renowned German landscape architect, among other things, for the German reformer garden Leberecht Migge in Hamburg. From 1911 until the dissolution of the company in 1933 was Ammann senior landscape architect at Otto Froebel 's heirs, where he later also the landscape architect Ernst Cramer trained under other young architect Richard Neutra as a gardener apprentice. In 1934, Ammann his own office in Zurich and worked with the leading modern architects of Switzerland together, among others, Max Frisch and the CIAM architects Max Ernst Haefeli and Werner Max Moser. His major projects include numerous "natural" landscaped garden and parks in the so-called living garden style of modernism, developed the elements of the German and English reform garden turn of the century on. Amman was a senior landscape architect at the Zurich Exhibition Garden ZÜGA 1933 and the Swiss National Exhibition Landi 1939. Numerous articles and in his book "Blooming Gardens" in 1955 he coined the garden theoretical discourse of his time. As part of the European reconstruction after the Second World War Ammann works were regarded as exemplary. Ammann including President of the Swiss Federal Gartengestalter (BSG ) and Secretary General of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA ) and member of the Swiss Werkbund.
Works
- Neubühl, Zurich (1930-1932)
- Outdoor pool Allenmoos, Zurich (1936-1939)
- Outdoor pool Letzigraben (now Max -Frisch- suite), Zurich ( 1947-1949 ) in collaboration with Max Frisch