Atelier 5
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| name = Atelier 5 Architekten und Planer AG
| logo = Atelier5 logo.svg
| logo_size = 180px
| industry = Architecture
| founded = {{Start date|1955}}
| founder = Erwin Fritz
Samuel Gerber
Rolf Hesterberg
Hans Hostettler
Alfredo Pini
| location = Sandrainstrasse 3 Postfach CH 3001 Bern
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| website = {{URL|https://atelier5.ch}}
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{{Short description|Swedish architectural company}}
{{Expand German|Atelier 5|date=May 2012}}
Atelier 5 is a modernist architectural company based in Switzerland.
Atelier 5 founded in 1955 in Bern, Switzerland by the five architects Erwin Fritz, Samuel Gerber, Rolf Hesterberg, Hans Hostettler and Alfredo Pini and later joined by Niklaus Morgenthaler.{{cite book |last1=Curl |first1=James Stevens |title=Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-860678-9|edition=2}}
The founding members met in the studio of Hans Brechbühler, a student of Le Corbusier in the 1930s. Samuel Gerber joined from the practice of landscape designer Burle Marx in Brazil.
The company built the Halen housing development (Structuralism) between 1955 and 1962 in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland.
They built the St Bernards estate at Park Hill, Croydon, south London for Wates in 1969–70. {{cite web |title=St Bernards |url=https://www.themodernhouse.com/sales-list/st-bernards/ |website=The Modern House}}
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External links
{{Commons category|Atelier 5}}
- [https://archive.today/20130115183136/http://www.atelier5.ch/de/Atelier/News.php Official website]
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Category:Architecture firms of Switzerland
Category:Companies based in Bern
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