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Swiss landscape architect (1885–1955) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustav Ammann (9 July 1885 – 23 March 1955) was a Swiss landscape architect who worked in the modernist style and influenced garden architecture in Switzerland. He has worked on over 1,700 projects, including the namesake Gustav-Ammann-Park in Zürich.[1]
Ammann was the son of the president of the Bürgli District Court in Zurich-Enge, and grew up in a middle-class environment. He attended the Cantonal Commercial School, Zurich, but left his federal diploma in favor of an apprenticeship with a landscaping company run by Leopold Frobel, from 1903 to 1905. He was then employed at the Zurich Botanical Garden. There he attended lectures by its director, Hans Schinz, who also served as a professor of botany at the University of Zurich.[1][2]
He left for Germany in 1907, where he worked with Reinhold Hoemann, a proponent of the reformist architectural style. He studied at the Magdeburg School of Arts and Crafts between 1905 and 1911.[3] From 1909 to 1911, he worked at the offices of several landscaping architects, including Franz Paetz (Düsseldorf), Ludwig Lesser - known for the namesake park (Berlin), and Jacob Ochs (Hamburg), where German landscape artist Leberecht Migge later became the artistic director.
From 1911 until the company was dissolved in 1933, Ammann was chief garden architect at the company of Otto Froebel and Heirs, where he trained the Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra as a gardener's apprentice, and later the landscape architect Ernst Cramer.[4] In those years, he was also associated with the Schweizerischer Werkbund (translated as Swiss Werkbund).[1]
In 1934, Ammann set up his studio in Zurich. He frequently collaborated with notable Swiss architects of the time, including Max Frisch, Max Ernst Haefeli, Werner Max Moser, Rudolf Steiger, and members of the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM).[1] Ammann was President of the Swiss Federation of Garden Designers (BSG) and the Secretary General of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA).[2]
Ammann was affiliated with many projects across Switzerland, designing their gardens and landscapes.
Ammann's gardening and landscaping ideologies have been the subject of multiple publications.
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