Marc Camoletti (architect)

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Marc Camoletti (born August 12, 1857 in Cartigny GE ; died December 13, 1940 in Geneva ) was a Swiss architect .

Education and life

Camoletti studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the early 1880s and worked there in Louis-Jules André's studio . After his return to Switzerland he became a partner of his older brother John from 1884 , with whom he ran the office until his death in 1894, after which he worked alone until he took in his son Jean in 1918. In 1926 he retired from professional life.

Camoletti created his mostly very representative buildings - luxury apartments and hotels, school buildings, main post offices, the Musée d'art et d'histoire - in an opulently orchestrated Beaux Arts style of late historicism. In addition to Geneva and French- speaking Switzerland, he worked in France and Cairo , where he planned casinos and hotels.

Camoletti was a Grand Councilor in Geneva, a federal expert on drawing in vocational schools, a founding member of the French Chamber of Commerce and the professional association of architects of the Canton of Geneva .

Selection of works

Marc Camoletti office
  • Immeuble de luxe , Quai Wilson 43, Geneva 1894-96
  • Immeuble du commerce et d'habitation , Rue de Friborg, Geneva 1897–99
  • Community hall , Cartigny 1900
  • École des Cropettes , Geneva 1901-02
  • École de mécanique , Geneva 1903-04 (today École d'ingenieurs)
  • Musée d'art et d'histoire , Geneva 1903-10
  • Immeuble du commerce et d'habitation , Rue de la Corraterie 5–7, Geneva 1904–05 (today SBB)
  • École de Chêne-Bourg , Geneva 1904–05
  • Hôtel National , addition to the north wing, Geneva 1905
  • Immeuble d'habitation , Rue Sénebier 4, Geneva 1906
  • Post Office , Rue du Stand, Geneva 1907-10
  • Hôtel Métropole , renovation, Geneva 1916
  • Immeuble d'habitation , Rue de Rive 2-6, Geneva 1923-24

literature

  • Catherine Courtiau: Camoletti, Marc. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century. Birkhäuser, Basel 1998. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2 . P. 115 f.
  • NN: Marc Camoletti, architecte . 1857-1940. In: Bulletin technique de la Suisse romande . tape 67 , no. 7 , 1941, pp. 82 ( online [accessed December 3, 2015]).
  • Catherine Courtiau: Camoletti, Marc. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005 .
personal data
SURNAME Camoletti, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Cartigny GE
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1940
Place of death Geneva