Jean Tschumi

Jean Tschumi ( born February 14, 1904 in Plain Palais, † January 25, 1962 ) was a Swiss architect and professor at the EPFL.

Career

After a draftsman teaching in Lausanne, he visited for the decorator study the technical Biel, then he continued his studies from 1922 of architecture and urban design at the École des Beaux -Arts and at the Institut d' Urbanisme the University of Paris continued. In 1927, he began his career first - its decorative talent - in the studio of the Parisian decorator and interior designer Jacques -Émile Ruhlmann. There, he designed, for example, the cabin furnishing of the transatlantic liner Normandie.

At the same time he was already turning to the urban development; 1932, the third prize of the large expansion of the city of Lausanne, he was awarded the 1937 Grand Prize of the city of Paris for the planning of underground traffic management. In 1943 he was appointed director of the newly founded École d'architecture et d' Urbanisme in Lausanne.

He created architectural work in their own office until that date - His - relatively narrow, but consisting of important buildings. After orders for Sandoz in France, he succeeded to the office of the insurance Mutuelle Vaudoise and the silo in Renens emblematic designs that considered the need for representation of the builder as functional aspects equally.

Its excellent globally recognized and the Reynolds Preiswerk is the Nestlé headquarters in Vevey, a Y-shaped administration building, elevated on piloti, it is proper, even today perceived as a contemporary representative of the company. The last planned by building the palace for the Health Organization of the United Nations, was established posthumously under the direction of Pierre Bonnard.

Tschumi participated in numerous committees, commissions, professional organizations and juries; 1953-57 he was Chairman of the International Union of Architects.

Tschumi, who divided his time and work between Lausanne and Paris, where he entertained each office, died in the sleeping car of the express train Paris -Lausanne. Jean Tschumi is the father of Bernard Tschumi.

Appreciation

Tschumi buildings seem amazingly contemporary, both in plastic by molding the components such as the use of the materials. If his work has also found wide both in journals such as in architectural guides entrance, there is still no comprehensive monograph.

Works ( selection)

  • Pavillon Suisse for the Exposition internationale de l' urbanisme et l' habitation, Paris, 1947
  • Factory building for dyes Sandoz, in Noisy- le -Sec, France, 1947-53
  • Pharmaceutical laboratories of Sandoz, in Orléans, France, 1949-53
  • Mutuelle Assurance Vaudoise, Lausanne, 1952-56
  • Production building chemical products manufacturing company Sandoz, in Saint -Pierre -la- Garenne, France, 952-61
  • Materially alter the silo USAR, Renens, 1957-59 by cultivation
  • Nestlé Headquarters, Vevey, 1959-60
  • Administration building for Nestlé Sopad, with A. Aubert, Courbevoie, Paris, 1961
  • Great Hall of the Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Lausanne, 1957-62
  • Administrative headquarters of André & Cie, Lausanne, 1962
  • WHO Headquarters, Geneva, 1962-66, Pierre Bonnard
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