In the history of building, Hans Benno Bernoulli is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Hans Benno Bernoulli as Swiss architect (1876-1959).
Hans Benno Bernoulli was born at Basel in 1876. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at Technical University of Munich.
Industrialisation gave architecture iron, glass and the lift, and with them the problems of the railway station, the factory and the tall city block.
He is recorded as architect, university teacher and politician.
An architect is judged by how a building is used a century after the drawings.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Hans Benno Bernoulli died in 1959, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at Technical University of Munich
