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Bernhard Hoesli (b. 1923, 1984) was a Swiss architect and collage artist. Image File history File links Portal. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An Architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ... A collage composed of magazine articles and pictures Collage (From the French: , to stick) is regarded as a work of visual arts made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

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. Glarus is the capital of the Canton of Glarus, Switzerland. ... Location within Switzerland   Zürich[?] (German pronunciation IPA: ; usually spelled Zurich in English) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... The ETH Zurich, often called Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is a science and technology university in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. ...

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. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 - August 17, 1955) was an artist. ... Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, widely known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887– August 27, 1965), was a French Swiss born architect, famous for his contributions to what is now called modernism, or the International Style. ... La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. ... // The Curutchet House, La Plata, Argentina, is one of the two buildings in the Americas by Le Corbusier. ... Unite dHabitation, Marseille The Unité dHabitation (French, literally, Housing Unit) is the name of a modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret-Gris), which formed the basis of numerous housing developments designed by Le Corbusier throughout Europe with this name. ... City flag Coat of arms Motto: By her great deeds, the city of Massilia shines Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Department Bouches-du-Rhône (13) Subdivisions 16 arrondissements (in 8 secteurs) Intercommunality Urban Community of Marseille Provence...

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. The University of Texas System comprises fifteen educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are general academic universities, and six are health institutions. ... Colin Rowe (born 1920 - died November 5, 1999, Arlington County, Virginia, USA) was a British architect, architectural critic and teacher. ... John Hejduk (b. ... Werner Seligmann (1930-1999) Architect, Urban Designer, and Educator. ... The ETH Zurich, often called Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, is a science and technology university in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. ...

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