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Name
  
Hans Bernoulli

Role
  
Architect

Structures
  
Silo Tower Basel


Hans Benno Bernoulli

Died
  
September 12, 1959, Basel, Switzerland

Hans Benno Bernoulli (17 February 1876 – 12 September 1959) was a Swiss architect and city planner.

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Family

Bernoulli was born in Basel, the son of Theodor Bernoulli, an office clerk. He was descended from the Bernoulli family of mathematicians. The suffragette and feminist Elisabeth Bernoulli (1873–1935) was his sister.

In 1904 he married Anna Ziegler in Berlin.

Career

He studied architecture at the Technische Universität München and in 1902 started a partnership in Berlin. In 1912 he was appointed "chief architect" for the Basler building industry.

His most important housing development projects were:

  • 1914–1929: Bernoullihäuser in Zürich, (Hardturmstrasse). The Bernoulli houses are named after the architect. These houses are a garden city project, from the 1920s and were meant to be sold without profit to the workers. You will find the Bernoulli houses on Zürich tram line no. 17 between the stations Bernoulli and Hardturm.
  • 1919: Bernoullihäuser in Grenchen SO (Rebgasse 61–67)
  • 1920–1923: residential area Im langen Loh in Basel
  • 1920–1923: residential estate Wasserhaus in the sub-district Neue Welt in Münchenstein, developed in partnership with Wilhelm Eduard Brodtbeck.
  • 1924–1934: Living and residential area Hirzbrunnenareal in Basel

    • After the Second World War his main projects were in rebuilding the bombed and destroyed cities.

    Hans Benno Bernoulli died aged 83 in Basel.

    Publication

    Die Stadt und Ihr Boden, Birkhàuser Verlag, 1991

    References

    Hans Benno Bernoulli Wikipedia
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