Bernhard Hoesli
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Bernhard Hoesli (b. 1923, 1984) was a Swiss architect and collage artist.
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[edit] Early age
Hoesli was born in Glarus, Switzerland from a German-Swiss father and a French mother. He later moved at an early age with his family to live in Zurich. After graduating from high school with a mathematics degree he joined ETH Zurich where he obtained a degree in architecture in 1944.
[edit] Career
In 1947 Hoesli moved to Paris, France to join architect Fernand Leger's team and later was accepted by Le Corbusier as an assistant. In 1948 he was sent to La Plata, Argentina to supervise the construction of the Curutchet House. A year later, he was appointed to take charge of the Unité d'Habitation project in Marseille.
[edit] The Texas Rangers
Hoesli moved to the United States in 1951. He first joined the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of architecture. It was there where he joined architects Colin Rowe, John Hejduk and Werner Seligmann among others to form the Texas Rangers group of architects. He then returned to teach at ETH Zurich.
[edit] References
- Caragonne, Alexander; Charles W. Moore (March 1995). The Texas Rangers: Notes from an Architectural Underground. The MIT Press, 462. ISBN 0-2620-3218-X.
- Ockman Joan, Form without Utopia: Contextualizing Colin Rowe, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 57, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 448-456, doi 10.2307/991461
- Lecture on Bernhard Hoesli's Collages - grahamfoundation.org
