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Max Bill

1908 - 1994

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Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Bill has received more than 345,257 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Bill is the 146th most popular architect (down from 139th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 136th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swiss Architect.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Max Bill ranks 146 out of 518. Before him are Sverre Fehn, Verner Panton, Hans Vredeman de Vries, Antonio Sant'Elia, Carlo Scarpa, and Pier Luigi Nervi. After him are Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Philibert de l'Orme, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Ludwig Borchardt, Juan de Herrera, and Nefermaat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Max Bill ranks 79. Before him are Pablo Dorado, Saizo Saito, Bernard Lee, Rómulo Betancourt, Koča Popović, and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. After him are Remedios Varo, Giovannino Guareschi, Yousuf Karsh, Atahualpa Yupanqui, Leroy Anderson, and Cus D'Amato. Among people deceased in 1994, Max Bill ranks 78. Before him are Clement Greenberg, Jacques Ellul, Golo Mann, Johannes Steinhoff, Alain Cuny, and Cab Calloway. After him are Kuvempu, Federica Montseny, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Tengiz Abuladze, Jean Borotra, and Branko Mikulić.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Max Bill ranks 155 out of 1,015. Before him are Nicolaus II Bernoulli (1695), Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1867), Jakob Ammann (1644), Auguste Forel (1848), Köbi Kuhn (1943), and Ulrich of Augsburg (890). After him are Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria (1274), Ernest Bloch (1880), Archduke Rudolf of Austria (1919), Charles Bally (1865), Kurt Huber (1893), and Édouard Claparède (1873).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Switzerland

Among architects born in Switzerland, Max Bill ranks 8. Before him are Francesco Borromini (1599), Carlo Maderno (1556), Peter Zumthor (1943), Domenico Fontana (1543), Mario Botta (1943), and Hannes Meyer (1889). After him are Bernard Tschumi (1944), Pietro Lombardo (1435), Carlo Fontana (1638), Adolphe Appia (1862), Pierre Jeanneret (1896), and Domenico Trezzini (1670).

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