Flora Steiger-Crawford
Flora Steiger-Crawford (1 September 1899, Bombay – 31 July 1991, Zurich) was a Swiss architect and sculptor. In 1923, she became the first woman to graduate in architecture from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where she studied under Karl Coelestin Moser. After working with Pfleghard & Haefeli in Zurich, she married Rudolf Steiger in 1924 and established her own firm with him in Riehen, moving to Zurich the following year.
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Flora Steiger-Crawford
- Full name
- Flora Crawford.
- Born
- 1899 · Mumbai.
- Died
- 1991 · Zurich.
- Nationality
- Switzerland
- Occupation
- architect · sculptor
- Education
- ETH Zurich
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Flora Steiger-Crawford (1 September 1899, Bombay – 31 July 1991, Zurich) was a Swiss architect and sculptor. In 1923, she became the first woman to graduate in architecture from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where she studied under Karl Coelestin Moser. After working with Pfleghard & Haefeli in Zurich, she married Rudolf Steiger in 1924 and established her own firm with him in Riehen, moving to Zurich the following year.
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The following is established of origins and background. Steiger-Crawford died in 1991 at Zurich. Institutional cataloguing adds that flora Steiger-Crawford is recorded at birth as Flora Crawford. It is also recorded that flora Steiger-Crawford was born in 1899 at Mumbai.
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Their first project, the Sandreuter House in Riehen (1924), is considered to be the first Modernist house in Switzerland. Steiger-Crawford went on to design individual houses while developing modern furniture, including a stackable metal chair for the Zett House in Zurich (1932). In 1930, she turned to sculpture, terminating her architectural activities in 1938. From 1938, she was a member of the Swiss Association of Female Artists and Sculptors.
• Evelyne Lang Jakob, Flora Steiger-Crawford, Architektenlexikon, pp 510–511. • Flora Steiger-Crawford, Marianne Burkhalter, Jutta Glanzmann, Evelyne Lang-Jakob: Flora Steiger-Crawford 1899-1991. gta, Zurich 2003,.
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- 1.Evelyne Lang Jakob. Steiger-Crawford, Flora. Dictionnaire historique de la Suisse. 2010.
- 2.Flora Steiger-Crawford (1899–1991) gta Archiv. archiv.gta.arch.ethz.ch.
- 3.Franz Müller. Steiger-Crawford, Flora SIK-ISEA Recherche. recherche.sik-isea.ch. 2020.
- 4.Flora Steiger-Crawford 1899-1991. UN DÍA UNA ARQUITECTA. 2015-04-18.
- 5.Les Premières femmes architectes de Suisse : Thèse de doctorat ès sciences. EPFL. 1992.
- 6.Rudolf Steiger and Flora Steiger-Crawford: Haus Steiger, Doldertal, Zürich 1959. Lars Müller Publishers. 2024.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Flora Steiger-Crawford. gta. 2003. 3-85676-112-8.
- Rudolf Steiger and Flora Steiger-Crawford: Haus Steiger, Doldertal, Zürich 1959. Lars Müller Publishers. 2024.
- Architektenlexikon der Schweiz 19./20. Jahrhundert. 1998. 510-511.
- Flora Steiger-Crawford 1899–1991. gta Verlag. 2003. 978-3-85676-112-7.
- Les Premières femmes architectes de Suisse. EPFL. 1992.
- Zürcher Architektinnen. Zwölf Porträts – elf Bauten, Ausst.-Kat. Stadelhofer. Passage. 2000.
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