Martin Burckhardt (architect)

Martin Burckhardt, born on 5 March 1921 in Basel and died on 6 February 2007 in the same city, was a Swiss architect and politician, member of the Liberal Democratic Party.

[2] His father was the architect Karl August Burckhardt (1879-1960),[3] from an old Basel patrician family;[2] his mother was Louise Elisabeth Koechlin.

The office was able to open branches in Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Mexico, Brazil, the United States and Australia, among others.

[5] Martin Burckhardt built the Biozentrum inter-faculty institute at the University of Basel from 1967 to 1970, the BIS-Tower of the Bank for International Settlements from 1972 to 1976 and the Nestlé Research Centre in Lausanne from 1980 to 19872.

[2] The collection includes works by : Otmar Alto, Marguerite Ammann, Horst Antès, Julius Bissier, Umberto Boccioni, Walter Bodmer, Eduardo Chillida, Simon Dittrich, Max Ernst, Maurice Estève, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Flore, Alberto Giacometti, Giovanni Giacometti, Juan Gris, Horst Janssen, Lenz Klotz, Bernhard Luginbühl, Otto Meyer-Amden, Amedeo Modigliani, Robert Muller, Antonio Zoran Musique, Luigi Pericle, Pablo Picasso, Serge Poliakoff, Oskar Schlemmer, K. R.H. Sonderborg, Louis Soutter and Antonio Tàpies[7] This fund is managed by the Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft (FAG).