Atelierhaus Wuhrstrasse, Artist housing complex in Kreis 3, Switzerland

Atelierhaus Wuhrstrasse is a combined residential and studio building with eight apartments and twelve artist workspaces in a modern structure designed by Ernst Gisel. The layout integrates living quarters with creative spaces under one roof.

The cooperative was founded in 1949 by sculptors Otto Müller and Otto Teucher and painter Max Truniger, prompted by Alfred Roth's 1948 article in the journal Werk. In 1952 the city of Zurich granted the land under building rights, and Ernst Gisel's building was occupied as early as March 1953, offering eight apartments and twelve studios to full-time visual artists.

The residents have seen themselves as an open community since the cooperative's founding in 1949: the "Wuhrsträssler" formed no school and committed to no style, and the decades-long Zurich dispute between abstract-concrete and figurative art did not touch the Wuhrstrasse. Artists of the house exhibited together at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1978 and in 2012 at the Kunsthalle im alten Güterbahnhof.

The building serves its original purpose as a working and living space for visual artists only, and it is a private location where residents are engaged in their creative practice. Visitors should respect this as an active creative community rather than a public institution.

The house's artists showed together at Kunsthaus Zürich in 1978 and again in 2012 at the Kunsthalle im alten Güterbahnhof, later called Art Dock, with Trudi Demut and Otto Müller. Residents have included Hans Aeschbacher, Friedrich Kuhn, Carlotta Stocker and Carlo Vivarelli, and later Klaudia Schifferle, Zilla Leutenegger and Luigi Archetti.