Rudolf Olgiati
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 citizens of Poschiavo and Chur. In 1927 he acquired the Matura in the Grisons cantonal school in Chur. He then studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, where he graduated in 1934 with Josef Zemp in art history. From 1935 to 1937 was followed by a prolonged stay in Rome. Then Rudolf Olgiati worked as an architect, first in Zurich and from 1944 in Flims, where he had acquired in 1930 and rebuilt a house belonging to the family. His son Valerio Olgiati has also worked as an architect and now lives in Flims in his father's house.
Broad of his work
Rudolf Olgiati was a representative of the New Objectivity movement and one of the first in the mid- 1950s discovered the importance and effectiveness of historical design principles for the architecture of modernity. He built predominantly single-family homes in the mountainous Grisons and restored old patrician and farmhouses, and later buildings in southern France and Germany together with Alfred Werner Maurer.
Its cubic form language was moving in the field of tension between local Grisons building tradition, the ancient Greeks and is orienting primarily at Modern Le Corbusier. He sought thereby to a universal, timeless and ultra modern building, which equally documented the influence of international architecture, such as the Indigenous of Swiss architecture and thereby its ideological and formal remuneration is always aware. In Olgiati, who wanted to know the recourse to traditional elements never seen as restorative, the architecture combined with local tradition and with the place as such, he to "create " new by producing an intimate relationship between architecture and the resident company claimed.
His work has been exhibited in 1977 from ETH Zurich, 1986 of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg, in 1986 at the Technical University of Berlin and in 1988 at the Art University Linz. In 1981 he received the Culture Prize of the Canton of Grisons. 1988 was a documentary about Rudolf Olgiati, the engagement also with contentious theses again and again in the architectural debate. Wide attention was his comment about " ignorant kitsch brothers are destroying our home " to the new look of his view " renovated to death " Arcas Square in Chur.
Works
- Casa Matta, Flims- Waldhaus 1955
- Apartment House Las Caglias, Flims -Waldhaus 1959-1960
- House as Savoldelli ( orig. D. Witzig ), Flims -Waldhaus 1966
- House van der Ploeg Lavanuz, Laax 1966-1967
- House van Heusden Lavanuz, Laax 1967-1968
- House Dr. Allemann, Underwater, Wild House 1968-1969
- Residential development " Cittadeta " Savognin, competition 1971
- Multi-family house Casa Radulff, Flims -Waldhaus 1971-1972
- Small apartment house " Amiez " rebuilt board factory and Reusstors to housing, Flims-Dorf 1971-1977
- Market-gardening Urech, Chur 1972-1973
- House Rogosky I- Mercantale, Tuscany 1972-1973
- Age and small apartments " Candrian ", saying in 1974
- House Tschaler, Chur 1974-1977
- Dr. House Schorta, Tamins 1975-1976
- Villa Sarraz, F -Les Issambres, Côte d' Azur 1986-1989, with Alfred Werner Maurer
- House Casutt, Ilanz 1984
- Hotel Casutt, remodeling restaurant, Ilanz 1986
- House G. Rensch ( orig. Dr. Thoma ), whales city 1988
- Residential House Winterberg Saarbrücken 1988-1989, with AW mason
- Renovation of the ' Schlossli ', Morissen, 1989-1991
- Multi-Family Home Bebié, Morissen, 1990
- Single Family, Dr. Bühlmann, Hilterfingen BE, 1993
- School system " prism " Schamserberg, Donath competition 1976
- Redevelopment of the downtown Chur 1980-1982
- Theater and Museum, Flims-Dorf, competition 1987
- Home remodeling, Book Tower and Art Gallery Saarbrücken 1988-1989, with AW Mason
- Terrace House in Saarbrücken in 1988, with A.W.Maurer
- Cultural Center Yellow House Flims-Dorf, Competition 1992-1994
- Tourist center valley station, Flims-Dorf 1994
- Olgiati Museum, Flims -Waldhaus 1994, 1996