Bruno Giacometti (24 August 1907 – 21 March 2012) was a Swiss architect and the brother of the artists

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and

Diego Giacometti Diego Giacometti (15 November 1902 – 15 July 1985) was a Swiss sculptor and designer, and the younger brother of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Youth Diego Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, a Swiss village near the Italian border. Son of An ...

. He was among the most notable

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architects in Switzerland.

Biography

Giacometti was born in

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. After studies with Otto Salvisberg and Karl Moser at the

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, he worked as an architect in

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, initially for Karl Egender. There, he designed the Hallenstadion (1939) and the hygiene and pharmacology institutes of the

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(1960) among others. His other main works include the Swiss pavilion at the

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in 1952, the schools of

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(1962), the

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town hall (1965) and the

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natural history museum (1982). Giacometti was married to Odette Duperret from 1935 until her death in February 2007. He lived in

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near Zürich until his death at the age of 104 in March 2012.

References

1907 births 2012 deaths Alberto Giacometti People from Maloja District Swiss-Italian people Swiss Protestants Swiss men centenarians 20th-century Swiss architects Sibling artists ETH Zurich alumni {{Switzerland-architect-stub