Otto Rudolf Salvisberg
Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (* October 19, 1882 in Köniz, † December 23, 1940 in Arosa ) was a Swiss architect who worked in Germany between 1905 and 1930.
Life
After teaching a draftsman in 1901 Salvisberg visited the Building of the pilot plant in Biel / Bienne, which he graduated in 1904 with a diploma with distinction. He then traveled through southern Germany to Munich. There Salvisberg attended classes at the Technical University of Munich, where August Thiersch, Friedrich von Thiersch and taught Karl Eder high. Probably 1905, he continued his journey to Karlsruhe. In addition to his job at the Karlsruhe office of the Swiss architect Karl Moser and Robert Curjel he heard at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe with Carl Schaefer.
In 1908 he moved to Berlin and got a job at Johann Emil Schaudt Schaudt in the office and rooms bucket. After the rift between Schaudt and Paul Zimmer bucket Salvisberg continued to work in the latter. After the assessment of the contemporary art critic Paul West home, " ... [he ] of big business within this construction company of the man of whom the designs were, in the true sense of the concerned building here. The buildings have his handwriting on, are un unmistakably documentation of his mind, although those who were not among the initiated, who never get to hear this name. "After the outbreak of war Salvisberg moved one to the army of neutral Switzerland, but was soon released from their duties.
In 1914 he finally took the plunge into self-employment. 1917 planned Otto Rudolf Salvisberg together with Otto Brechbühl ( 1889-1984 ), whom he had brought after his diploma in 1910 to Berlin, on the expansion of 1914-1917 built by Paul Schmitthenner Garden City Staaken to more than double the size. With Brechbühl he then began a lifelong collaboration.
The following years until 1930 spent Salvisberg as an architect in Berlin. He designed and implemented a variety of construction projects, including the reconstruction of the Vox - house, the Geyer- Werke AG in Neukölln or the striking parish hall of St. Matthew Church in Steglitz. Outstanding are its settlement construction, including Uncle Tom's Cabin and the White City, at which exemplifies the development of settlements of the 20th century can understand of the garden city idea to modern.
Salvisberg partner Otto Brechbühl returned back to Switzerland in 1922 and led the combined office in Bern. The architects won the competition for the Lory Hospital 1924/1925, the infant 's home in the Elfenau as well as the construction of new buildings Institute of the University of Bern. Above all, the hospitals found a lot of attention and paved the way for him probably fought successor to the chair by Karl Moser.
Salvisberg was there as it did in the first monograph in 1927 in the series New workmanship as moderate as little estimable, its architecture as "something crafted Unsensationelles, something which for the owner, the future residents of his house, is of prime value, but those who propagate the architecture as a ' document ', as a subject complex, hardly know to start something. "
From 1930 Salvisberg taught as a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, where he built the Fernheizkraftwerk and Maschinanbaulaboratorium to 1934. In 1938, he stayed on for some time in Turkey. Salvisberg was in the 1930 Architect of the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann -La Roche, he designed the development plan and many buildings at its headquarters in Basel and the numerous buildings in the branches around the world.
Salvisberg died while skiing in December 1940 in Arosa.