Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli (born Zurich, 29 January 1842 — died Zurich 27 July 1930) Swiss Architect and Educator. Location within Switzerland   Zürich[?] (German pronunciation IPA: ; usually spelled Zurich in English) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... January 29 is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Architect at his drawing board, 1893 An Architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ...

Son of a distinguished legal scholar, Johann Caspar Bluntschli, A. F. "Fritz" Bluntschli commenced his architectural education in 1860 at the Zurich Polytechnikum (now ETH) under Gottfried Semper, and later (1864) attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in Questel's atelier. By 1866, Bluntschli was shuttling between Heidelberg and Konstanz, and in 1870 he settled in Frankfurt am Main where he met Carl Jonas Mylius (1839-1883), with whom he established a successful arhictectural practice. One of their first successful commissions was for the layout of Vienna's Zentralfriedhof in 1871, though none of the planned structures were built. In 1876, Mylius and Bluntschli won an international competition for the new Hamburg City Hall, though it was not executed to their designs. Location within Switzerland   Zürich[?] (German pronunciation IPA: ; usually spelled Zurich in English) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and capital of the canton of Zürich. ... Eth (Ð, ð), also spelled edh or eð, is a letter used in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and present-day Icelandic, and in Faroese language which call the letter edd. ... Gottfried Semper Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Oper in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. ... École des Beaux-Arts (IPA ) refers to several art schools in France. ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... A view of the city from the castle (Schloss) The castle (Schloss) above the town Shopping district Heidelberg and the other cities of the Neckar valley View from the so called alley of philosophers (Philosophenweg) towards the Old Town, with Heidelberg Castle, Heiliggeist Church and the Old Bridge Heidelberg is... Konstanz in 1925 seen from the lake Schnetztor, a section of the former city wall Another gate from city wall Shops in Konstanz The Konzilgebäude in Konstanz Konstanz (in English formerly known as Constance) is a university town of around 80,000 inhabitants at the western end of Lake... Frankfurt am Main [ˈfraŋkfʊrt] is the largest city in the German state of Hessen and the fifth largest city of Germany. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... Exterior of the Dr. Karl Lueger-Gedächtniskirche, Zentralfriedhof, Vienna. ... Hamburg from above Hamburgs motto: May the posterity endeavour with dignity to conserve the freedom, which the forefathers acquired. ...

In 1881, Bluntschli was called to assume the leadership of the Department of Architecture at the Polytechnikum, where he taught until 1914. During his Zurich years, Bluntschli built a number of large private residences, several commissions for the Polytechnikum, andthe delightful Enge Evangelical Church on the Zürichsee. 1881 (MDCCCLXXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Bluntschli was regarded internationally as a talented designer and a gifted teacher. When he died in 1930, his work had largely been eclipsed by more stridently modern tendencies in the profession.

Major Works

• Bluntschli Residence, Heidelberg (Germany), 1866
• Layout of Zentralfriedhof (with C. J. Mylius), Vienna (Austria), 1871
• Hotel Frankfurter Hof (with C. J. Mylius), Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 1873-4.
• City Hall (with C. J. Mylius; not executed), Hamburg (Germany), 1876.
• Mannheim Insurance Building, Frankfurt am Main (Germany), 1882.
• Heyl Residence, Worms (Germany), 1882
• Chemistry Department (with Georg Lasius), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), 1884-6.
• Villa Bleuler, Zurich (Switzerland), 1886-7.
• Physics Department (with Georg Lasius), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), 1886-90.
• Enge Church, Zurich/Enge (Switzerland), 1888-1894.

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Web Links

Bernd Altman Dissertation on Bluntschli