Willi Kehlstadt

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Zwinglihaus, Basel, 1932

Willhelm Kehlstadt (born June 22, 1888 in Basel ; † March 29, 1951 there ) was a Swiss architect .

education

After graduating from secondary school, Kehlstadt completed an apprenticeship with Emil Faesch . He then studied at the Technical University of Stuttgart as a student of Theodor Fischer and Paul Bonatz . After working abroad, he then worked for the Pfister brothers in Zurich. After winning the competition for the Zwinglihaus parish hall in Basel, he founded his office in Basel. This was followed by villas on the Bruderholz, but above all industrial buildings such as a pasta factory in Muttenz or the Metzger laundry factory in Basel. Before the Second World War he built the slaughterhouse in Basel. In the pharmaceutical industry, he built a research institute for Sandoz and the Swiss Vaccine Institute. Together with Bräuning, Leu, Dürig and Brodtbeck , he planned the extension of the casino on Barfüsserplatz . At the end of his professional career, he planned to expand the Basel eye hospital and redesign the Basel zoo, which he did not live to see realized.

Kehlstadt was the first chairman of the Basel section of the BSA and chairman of the professional committee of the Basel Architects and Engineers Association.

literature

  • WF: Willi Kehlstadt. Obituary . In: The work . tape 38 , no. 6 , 1951, pp. * 86 * f . ( online ).
  • W. Faucherre: Necrologist: Willi Kehlstadt . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 69 , no. 20 , 1951, pp. 283 (= online ).

supporting documents

  1. ^ NN: The Zwinglihaus in Basel: Architect Willi Kehlstadt, Basel . In: The work . tape 20 , no. 8 , 1933, pp. 231-237 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-86401 .
  2. ^ Willi Kehlstadt: The new building of the Basel slaughterhouse . In: Schweizerische Bauzeitung . tape 113 , no. 2 , 1939, pp. 231-237 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-50428 .
personal data
SURNAME Kehlstadt, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kehlstadt, Willhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1951
Place of death Basel