Switzerland Architecture Albert Heinrich Steiner (b/w photo)

Portrait of Albert Heinrich Steiner (born on 26 July 1905), taken in January 1957 at his workplace. Albert Heinrich Steiner founded his own architectural office in 1933. His activity as a master builder of the city of Zurich 1943-1957 was influential: he created a new urban building code and pushed the gradual transformation of the inner city into a business city while respecting the historic old town. As professor of architecture and urban planning at the ETH Zurich (1957-71), Steiner began in 1957 to draw up an overall plan for the new buildings of the ETH Hoenggerberg.