Stadler and Usteri

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The Jelmoli department store, building from 1896
Corso Theater, purified, 1900

Stadler and Usteri was an architecture firm in Zurich that was managed by the two partners from 1894 to 1902. Among other things, they built the Jelmoli department store and the Baur au Lac hotel .

Hermann Stadler

The merchant's son Hermann August Stadler (born October 27, 1861 in Zurich; † December 23, 1918 in Zurich) studied architecture at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum from 1877 , at the Technical University of Stuttgart from 1880 and at the École des Beaux-Arts in from 1883 to 1885 Paris. After working with Heinrich Ernst , he spent most of 1887 studying in Rome. He then worked with Alfred Chiodera in Milan, and in 1891, when he returned to Zurich, took the position of director of an artificial stone factory. 1893–95 assistant at the Eidgenössisches Polytechnikum near Bluntschli , in 1994 he founded the joint office with Usteri.

In 1903, in view of the building boom there, after the end of the Boer War, Stadler moved to South Africa, where he primarily dealt with methods of mining. In 1913 he received a teaching post at the Royal School of Mines in South Kensington . Because of an incurable disease, he returned to Zurich in 1917, where he died the following year.

Hermann Stadler was the nephew of the architect Ferdinand Stadler .

Emil Usteri

Jakob Emil Usteri (born September 6, 1858 in Zurich; † July 25, 1934 in Zurich) completed an apprenticeship as a draftsman with the Reutlinger brothers after finishing high school in Zurich. He then studied from 1879, like his later partner, at the Technical University in Stuttgart. From 1882–90 he worked in Paris before he returned to Zurich and, after building the Villa Usteri in Rüschlikon under his own direction, founded the joint office with Stadler in 1894. He continued to run the office on his own from 1903 after his partner moved away.

Works (selection)

Usteri and Stadler

  • Two double villas, Zurich, 1895
  • Baur au Lac , Hotel, Zurich, 1896
  • Theodosianum , hospital, Zurich, 1897–99
  • Jelmoli , department store, Zurich, 1899
  • Villa Nabholz , Zurich, 1899
  • Corso Theater , Zurich, 1900
  • Nursing School , Zurich, 1901

literature

  • Claudia Fischer-Karrer: Stadler and Usteri. In: Isabelle Rucki and Dorothee Huber (eds.): Architectural Lexicon of Switzerland - 19./20. Century . Basel: Birkhäuser 1998. p. 504. ISBN 3-7643-5261-2