Jean André Tschumi (born 14 February 1904

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,p. 117 now a neighborhood of

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, Switzerland; died 25 January 1962 He was discovered by customs officers at

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, in an overnight train coming from

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)p. 131) was a Swiss architect and professor at the

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. A member of the

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, Jean Tschumi is known for his buildings for

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(laboratory, factory),

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(pavilions at various international fairs, headquarters), la Mutuelle Vaudoise (headquarters), as well as for some of his projects (underground Paris souterrain, observation tower, etc.).

Biography

Jean André Tschumi was born on 14 February 1904 in Plainpalais, in the

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, Switzerland. His mother, Maria (maiden name Krummnacker), born in 1873, was from

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. His father, Johann, born in 1871, was a woodworker from Bern. In 1915, at the age of 11, Jean Tschumi began drawing under the guidance of his father, who also taught him the basics of woodworking. Shortly before obtaining his primary school certificate in

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in April 1918, he signed up for the professional course of the Société Industrielle de LausanneTaught by Frédéric Gilliard.He received a prize in 1920 for his project ''Living room and bedroom for a factor worker'' At the same time, he began an apprenticeship as a draftsman in the office of Charles Braun.pp. 20 - 21 He studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts under Emmanuel Pontremoli. He then worked in the office of the furniture and interior designer

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. In 1936, he began working with the sculptor Édouard-Marcel Sandoz, who was son of Édouard Sandoz, the founder of the

pharmaceutical company.January 27, 2011 Tschumi began working for the Sandoz company, starting with some small projects. After

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, Tschumi designed the Sandoz laboratories in Orléans and in

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. After his death, several buildings were completed posthumously: the general headquarters of Sandoz in

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, completed in 1968 by

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and the Swiss architect Martin Burckhardt.January 27, 2011 The prize for architectural criticism and/or architectural education awarded triennially by the

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is named for Jean Tschumi. He was the father of architect

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References

* Notes: * Jacques Gubler
''Jean Tschumi:Architecture échelle grandeur''
'' on ''books.google.com''.

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, 2008. () * François Chaslin, Les jeudis de l'architecture,

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Jean Tschumi
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