Archives

The archives of the FBA hold the work of a family of architects: the father, Maurice Braillard (1879–1965), and his two sons Pierre (1911) and Charles (1921–1980).

The Foundation was established following the discovery of 12 large portfolios, the contents of which documented nearly all the projects designed and built by Maurice Braillard  in the attic of the family’s architectural office. As an architect, an urbanist and a politician, Maurice Braillard was responsible for a substantial body of work that has now won international recognition.

The records of the three architects’ work are important evidence of the development of architectural debate and production in Geneva in the last century, from the “Heimatstil” through the emergence of a modern and then an international architecture, to the architectural boom of the Fifties to the Eighties.

Among the users of the archives are:

• Architects, engineers, managing agents, owners and tenants of the buildings;
• Professors, researchers, lecturers and assistants at the IAUG, the EPFL (ITHA), and the Faculty of Letters of the University of Geneva;
• Domestic students from the EPFL, the EPFZ, the Universities of Geneva and of Lausanne, Geneva secondary schools, Swiss schools of engineering (Geneva, Fribourg, Zurich) and of decorative arts.