Swiss architect Konrad Hippenmeier was the chief of the planning office for construction at Zürich, and was responsible for the cemeteries in Rehalp, Nordheim and Enzenbühl. At the ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule) Zürich, he had a teaching assignment in the field of building and neighborhood plans. Hippenmeier was one of the first architects to use the urban style. He saw the main task of city planners as maintaining an agricultural belt around the edges of a town. Hippenmeier started his career as a technical draftsman at the Municipal Engineering Office and later studied at Berlin and Zürich. He participated regularly in representative city planning exhibitions at home and abroad, and his work as a city planner was appreciated all around the world. Hippenmeier already participated in the architecture competition for a “Modern Olympia” in 1911 with his second placed design for a stadium in the “Germanic style”. He probably submitted this design again.
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