Editorial

Last autumn there was an account in the newspaper to the effect that the City of Zurich is currently carrying out investigations into public schools to be built and run by private investors. The city authorities were even reported to have already knocked at Coop's door and financed the first studies with the consent of the concern. The model is new and to a large extent unripe, and the current perspectives culminate in the prospect of a private investor building a school on his own ground and at his own cost in Zurich West and subsequently letting it to the city. „Private-public partnership“ is the motto. „Progress reports“ are planned to ensure the controlled course of such a closing of ranks between public resources and private economy; for example, for the Zurich School Project 21, which includes the promotion of English lessons and the use of computers early on in the school curriculum. Will there be a „loser“ in all this? Well, a school is not a football stadium and a school day is not an opera performance. Therefore the state and the city parliament would be letting go of a valuable asset were they negligently to delegate one of their most fundamental state-political cultural responsibilities, the construction and the running of state schools. The „return of investment“ is represented by a well-educated younger generation - and by high-quality buildings meeting their public nature both functionally as well as urbanistically that are realised on the basis of public competitions and should not be left to the whims of private owner-builders. Buildings of this kind are the theme of this „et cetera“ issue. They are distinguishable not only by virtue of their construction but also by the eminent state-economic and political importance of the task. On the one hand, the buildings presented here all resulted from competitions, on the other they represent the successful debut of a number of young teams of architects. The fact that we were able to win some practising architects over to introduce and comment on the schools makes the topic even more interesting and bears witness to the importance attached to the critical building assignment which - it must be repeated - must not be permitted to stray into the hands of isolated private entrepreneurs. The issue ends with a contribution on the French architect Fernand Pouillon who is little known in German-speaking countries despite his considerable standing. An architect and adventurous entrepreneur, it was his entrepreneurship that finally led to his downfall. Nevertheless, his great urban development projects and buildings still evidence outstanding and undisputed quality. The Editors

Thema

Jaques Lucan
Fernand Pouillon: Architekt

Matthias Ackermann
Schlussstein Kantonsschule «Luegeten» in Zug, Enzmann + Fischer, Zürich

Daniel Niggli
«Seid der rosarote Panther!» | Erweiterung der Schule für soziale und pädagogische Studien (EESP)
Bonnard/Woeffray, Monthey

Tibor Joanelly
Expressive Halle, atelierartige Zimmer | Erweiterung Schulhaus Mattenhof, Zürich Schwamendingen B.E.R.G. Architekten, Zürich

Inge Beckel
Sphären der Halböffentlichkeit | Schulhaus in der Höh, Volketswil, Gafner Horisberger, Zürich

Christoph Wieser
Vor Anker im Schweizer Mittelland | Primarschulhaus Linden, Niederhasli, Bünzli & Courvoisier, Zürich

Forum

Kolumne: Wolfgang Ullrich
Wettbewerb: Bärengraben Bern
Innenarchitektur: «Schauküche Cookuk» Aarau
Nachruf: Pierre Zoelly
EFH: Haus zur «Stiege», Bürglen UR, von Loeliger Strub Architektur
Bauten: Dorfbanken
Kolloquium: Urbanität und Identität zeitgenössischer europäischer Städte
Bücher: Stadt und Architektur | Tessiner in Russland | «matières»
Spitzenarchitektur
bauen + rechten
Ausstellungen
Vorträge | Veranstaltungen | Wettbewerbe | Firmennachrichten
Vorschau | Impressum

werk-Material

Michele Arnaboldi, Locarno Bankfiliale in Intragna, TI
Steinmann & Schmid Architekten AG, Basel Wohn- und Geschäftshaus mit Banklokal, VS