Emil Kaspar Studer

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Emil Kaspar Studer (* 1844 in Winterthur ; † 1927 ) was a Swiss architect and professor .

Life

Studer was born as the son of the Winterthur lithography pioneer Hans Kaspar Studer. After finishing industrial school, he worked under the direction of the then city architect Karl Wilhelm Bareiss in the building department of the city of Winterthur. He took his high school diploma alongside his work and then studied architecture for four semesters at ETH Zurich under Professor Gottfried Semper . In 1864 he moved to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and worked in the atelier of Charles-Auguste Questel .

In 1868 he returned to Zurich and took a job as a site manager with Professor Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli . Around 1874 he received the order - together with the city architect Joseph Bösch (1839–1922) - to build the Winterthur residents ' hospital. On November 15, 1876, the residents' hospital with 90 beds was opened.

From 1874 to 1913 he worked as a lecturer at the Technikum Winterthur to set up and organize the construction department. He was also director of the technical center from 1883 to 1887.

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Individual evidence

  1. AM Fehr: 100 Years of Winterthur Residential and Cantonal Hospital 1876–1976, p. 15.