Curjel & Moser was an architectural firm set up by

Robert Curjel Robert Curjel (born 17 December 1859 in St. Gallen, Switzerland; died 18 August 1925 in Emmett, Switzerland) was a German-Swiss architect. Early life and education Curjel attended the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical Uni ...

and Karl Moser in 1888 in

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. They designed about 400 buildings in Germany and

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. In 1915, following the start of the

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, the firm was dissolved and Moser became

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. Many of the office's surviving buildings are now listed monuments. In Karlsruhe-Knielingen, Curjel-und-Moser-Strasse was named after the architects in 2008.

Buildings designed by Curjel and Moser

* St John's Church in

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(1892-93) * St. Sebastian in

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(1895) * St Paul's Church in

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(1898-1901) * Rheinlust in Rheinfelden (1899-1900) * St Paul's Church in Bern (1902-05) *

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(1904-10) * Badischer Bahnhof in

(1910-13) *

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(1911-14) * Concert hall in Karlsruhe (1913-15)

References

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, ''History of Modern Architecture, Volume 2''. (

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, 1977), p. 618 {{Authority control German companies established in 1888 Swiss companies established in 1888 Companies based in Karlsruhe Companies based in Basel Design companies disestablished in 1915 Architecture firms of Germany Architecture firms of Switzerland Design companies established in 1888