Hans Benno Bernoulli


Hans Benno Bernoulli was a Swiss architect and city planner.

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 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:
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