Alberto Camenzind

Alberto Camenzind
"Bureau International du Travail" (south side)
Born	7 June 1914 Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Died	29 September 2004 Astano, Ticino, Switzerland
Occupation	Architect, university teacher
Spouse(s)	Gabriella Bargna

Alberto Camenzind (born Lugano 7 June 1914, died Astano 29 September 2004) was a Swiss architect from Ticino. He also became a professor at the prestigious Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ("Zürich Technical University").

Alberto Camenzind was the son of, Eduard Camenzind, a hotelier originally from Gersau in the (officially German speaking) Canton of Schwyz, by his marriage to Chiara d'Ambrogio. He attended secondary school in Lugano. Between 1933 and 1939 he studied architecture with, among others, Professor William Dunkel at the Zürich Technical University, where fellow architecture students included Max Frisch (subsequently better remembered as a writer than as an architect) and Justus Dahinden.

On completing his studies he worked at the studios of the architects Otto Rudolf Salvisberg and William Dunkel. Returning south, in 1942 he opened his own architectural studio in Lugano, working in association with Bruno Brocchi between 1959 and 1991. His early work as an independent architect included houses in Cademario (1953) and Sorengo (1957). Camenzind's first public commission was a secondary school (today a "Media School") in Bellinzona (1958), followed by the main building for the RTSI (the Swiss Italian language TV/Radio station), completed between 1958 and 1961, undertaken by Camenzind in collaboration with and . He was also responsible for the headquarters, at Agno, of the Swiss Alfa Romeo importer (1963) which has subsequently been converted into a Migros supermarket) and the Gmür House (1963 "la Casa Gmür") in Brissago.