HANS GUGELOT

Hans Gugelot, a designer and architect of Dutch and Swiss descent, studied architecture in Lausanne from 1940 until1942 in Lausanne before transferring to the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, which he attended until 1946. For eight years Hans Gugelot freelanced in Max Bill's practice. In 1954 Hans Gugelot met Erwin Braun and embarked on an important collaboration for the electrical appliance firm Braun, for which Hans Gugelot and Dieter Rams, head of the design division at Braun, and the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm (HfG) developed an extraordinarily successful concept for designing Braun products. From 1954 Hans Gugelot taught at the Ulm HfG, which had been founded the year before by Otl Aicher, Inge Aicher-Scholl, and Max Bill... Braun appliances were designed in a distinctive style based on geometric forms, a reduced palette, and the eschewal of extraneous decoration. Hans Gugelot was a vocal advocate of the Modernist conceptist "form follows function"...

Primary location: Stockach Germany