01 2019 AIA COMMITTE ON DESIGN2019 CONFERENCE | SAN FRANCISCO AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SWITZERLAND September 21-29, 2019 Add-On Tour: September 29-October 2, 2019 02 2019 AIA COMMITTE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SAN FRANCISCO

THE INNOVATORS & MAINTAINERS: SWISS INNOVATION IN ARCHITECTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, & TECHNOLOGY

September 21-29, 2019 Basel Lausanne Lucerne

September 29-October 2, 2019 The Alpine Villages of Graubunden

Committee on Design

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06 Welcome 07 The AIA Committee on Design 08 2019 COD Theme 10 Welcome to Switzerland AIA COD 11 A Message from Co-Conference Chairs 14 Thank you

17 Schedule 18 Day 1: Saturday, September 21st and Day 2: Sunday, September 22nd 20 Day 3: Monday, September 23rd 22 Day 4: Tuesday, September 24th INTERNATIONAL 24 Day 5: Wednesday, September 25th 26 Day 6: Thursday, September 26th 28 Day 7: Friday, September 27th 30 Day 8: Saturday, September 28th 32 Day 9: Sunday, September 29th and Day 10: Monday September 30th 34 Day 11: Tuesday, October 1st and Day 12: Wednesday, October 2nd 37 CONFERENCE Projects 39 Basel 67 Le Brassus 69 Lausanne 91 Vevey 99 Lucerne GUIDEBOOK 123 Add-On 143 Events 145 Laufen Ceramics Factory Tour and Presentation 147 Mt. Pilatus Symposium 2 149 Closing Gala Dinner on Lake of Lucerne Boat MS Diamant 150 50 years of COD Leadership

153 People TABLE OF 154 Planning Committee 159 Speakers and Moderators

181 Sponsors & Acknowledgements 185 CONTENTS Sketch Pages WELCOME 07

A message from David B. Greenbaum, FAIA 2019 AIA Committee WELCOME on Design Chair

Welcome to Switzerland. Communities, the COD is the standard bearer for design in the Institute. The WELCOME It is my great pleasure to serve as Committee makes recommendations the 51st chair of the American Institute for Gold Medalists, Firm Awards, of Architects Committee on Design Honorary Fellows, and Institute for 2019. Honor Awards.

The AIA Committee on Design (COD) But most importantly, we come was founded to promote design together in a collegial atmosphere to excellence among members of the learn and to celebrate design with old AIA, the broader design community, and new friends alike! and the public at large, both nationally and internationally. The committee This year we celebrate 50 years of goals are to examine and promote COD Leadership, recognizing the past knowledge of contemporary design issues, to compare current design and chairs of COD at The Exploratorium. historic precedents, to learn from the This celebration will also feature the contrast or progression of ideas, and to Member Slide Show where we get a advocate leadership roles for architects peek into the exceptional work that our within the fields of design and planning. members are creating. As one of the largest interest areas within the family of the AIA Knowledge Design Excellence Matters! WELCOME 09

2019 COD Theme I have selected two contrasting hubs pace since the mid-1970s, it has “In a society of innovation to visit this year. We seen spectacular growth in the San will visit San Francisco and Silicon Francisco Bay Area. Silicon Valley, that celebrates There are so many wonderful places Valley for the Spring Domestic situated in the San Francisco Bay and works of architecture to visit Conference and Switzerland for the Area, is renowned for its world class the inessential, in this world. So how do we decide Fall International Conference. During high-tech companies and thousands where to go that is meaningful to our these visits, we will examine innovation of growing startup companies. It is architecture work and practice? To help filter these and infrastructure from multiple known as an “Innovation Hub,” a social possibilities, we have adopted a theme perspectives, including digital design, community that fosters technological can put up a that will explore innovation, disruption, urban design and architecture, and trends, innovation, and industry- and maintenance. Unfortunately, these human-centered design. resistance, terms have become so overused in the specific insights. In comparison, counteract the marketplace, they have seemingly lost There is great concern that innovation Switzerland is regularly ranked as the their impact. This makes it all the more in the United States is waning, and world’s most innovative economy and waste of forms important to study benchmark projects that the country has entered a period leads much of the world’s significant first hand to see how new programming, of prolonged secular stagnation. new technological development, and meanings, design iterations, and technological While innovation across America principally in building tech, life advancement affect our lives. and speak its has increased at a relatively slow sciences, robotics, and infrastructure. What is your definition own language.” of “innovation”?

– Peter Zumthor “Anything that is new, useful, “The buildings that really shape Switzerland are not buildings, and surprising. That last but the civil engineering works. It has always been like this. criteria, surprising, tends to The first bridge in Basel opened the way for the North-South ‘surprise’ people because they link through Europe. This was crucial in the 12th century, even usually don’t hear many people before Switzerland was founded. Later many other examples talk about it. For me, great came to mind, such as the railways and mountain railways, innovations are the simple which we admire today. Today, the Rhaetian Railway has almost ones that make you slap your a museum-like character and shapes the landscape. Such forehead and say, ‘Gee, why significant structures would not be so easy to realize today didn’t I think of that?’” because we think much more conservatively.”

– Drew Boyd – Jacques Herzog

Additional Reading list on the COD website: https://bit.ly/2Zy4oJo 10 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND WELCOME 11

Welcome to Switzerland

Switzerland is top in the world when it the Times Higher Education World comes to innovation, according to an Reputation Rankings. index by the World Intellectual Property Organization. It is the sixth year in a Investment by multinationals. row that the Alpine nation has come Multinational corporations are criticized out on top. for a number of reasons, whether for tax avoidance or irresponsible The index looks at institutions, human business practices, but they also have capital and research, infrastructure, the finances to push research and market sophistication, and business development, in healthcare for example, A message from sophistication – Switzerland is and they can provide valuable links Tiffany Melançon, Int’l Assoc. AIA particularly strong in the last of these. between work being done in universities Knowledge, technology, and creative and the industry. and Stefan Bieri, AIA outputs, such as patents, trademarks, Committee on Design 2019 and creative exports, like films, also Pharma giants Roche and Novartis play a role in the rankings. So what is are based in Basel and belong to the Co-Conference Chairs Switzerland getting right? top 20 companies in the world with the largest research budgets. Finance A nation of inventors. industry and venture capital and startup We are thrilled to welcome you to large reservoir of small, creative Switzerland where we’ll continue the Switzerland scored particularly high organizations are also abundant. practices that support and sustain a exciting conversation started by the AIA in the category ‘knowledge and long tradition of building excellence. In Committee on Design in San Francisco technology outputs.’ One measure of High-profile green our week together, we’ll see innovative and Silicon Valley this Spring. this is patent applications – and the innovation projects. works by Swiss architects working Swiss have the highest ratio of European The Swiss solar-powered plane Solar globally, regional practices working Although Switzerland has record patent applications to population. Impulse has drawn worldwide and long- locally, and international practices achievements in many sectors, it’s lasting attention to finding sustainable lucky enough to build in this country especially strong today in the global World-class research institutes. solutions for travel. with its wealth of highly-skilled labor. scene of science and technology. Universities in Switzerland regularly In between we’ll hear from diverse Meanwhile, with the highest number score high in various rankings: in 2016 Highly skilled employees. disciplinary experts who will push us of Pritzker Prize winners per capita, the Swiss federal technology institute Switzerland came third in the Global to think in new ways about innovation, and most of its terrain naturally ETH Zurich came fourth in Europe Innovation Index in the sub-category technology, and the environment. uninhabitable, it also has remarkable behind three British universities: for ‘knowledge intensive employment.’ distinction in the fields of architecture Oxford, Cambridge, and Imperial In other words, employees here really and infrastructure. We can’t think of a A road trip through compact College London (and 19th overall) in know their stuff. better place in the heart of Europe to Switzerland is the perfect way to explore this year’s COD theme. see, and celebrate, our field’s unique connections with art and science, It’s often asked how a tiny, landlocked tradition and innovation, the individual country could produce so many and the collective, the spectacular renowned architects such as Le and the everyday. We look forward to Corbusier, Mario Botta, Herzog & de celebrating with you. Meuron, and Peter Zumthor. Part of the answer lies in knowing Switzerland’s – Tiffany and Stefan Written by Jo Fahy, Swis Info.ch Basel

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Thank You

Sponsorship is critical to help document lessons learned and our trip I am fortunate to have worked with management company, Hauck and provide the programs that support experience. such a wonderful and devoted team Associates. His capable team is COD mission. of Swiss Conference leaders during responsible for smooth transitions AIA Support Staff this past year. We started planning and hotel arrangements along our Graphic Design Finally, this conference would not have in January 2017 and I hope you can journey. Graham Hauck and Morgan Many thanks to David Greenbaum’s been possible without the incredible enjoy the tireless efforts of the terrific Denault will also be facilitating during daughter, Sophie Greenbaum of assistance of two of the AIA’s most group. Tiffany Melanconand Stefan the conference. Brevity & Wit, for taking on the task valuable staff persons— Lori Feinman Bieri have been on point as the Co- of assembling and laying out the and Susan Parrish, who are fully Conference Chairs and have been Our Committee on Design Advisory guidebook. Even though she does committed to the work of the COD. fastidious in every detail. Together they Group has been most supportive graphic design for a living, she is willing Please thank them every time you have provided critical local and national and generous in counsel. We always to volunteer time to a good cause. a chance. But don’t tell anyone else at connections to make this conference welcome new members to step up the AIA about their level of skill. We do memorable and meaningful. into leadership positions for this vital Journalist and Photographer not want to lose them! AIA Knowledge Community. For more Michael Ross will serve as our Tiffany Melancon, SIA, Int’l Assoc. AIA information, please visit the AIA journalist and will capture the Stefan Bieri, Int’l. Assoc. AIA. COD’s website. conferences to convey the lessons Dan Hogman, AIA learned to our knowledge community. Jean-Luc Briguet, AIA John Myefski, AIA took over the Please feel free to reach out to Michael Janki Bahtia, AIA reins of Sponsorship Chair this year and tell him your perspectives and David B. Greenbaum, FAIA, LEED from Jaya Kayder, AIA. John has observations about what you see and BD+C Brian Mandrier is serving as our driven a successful campaign in a few learn. Tom Rossiter, FAIA will serve 2019 COD Chair logistics planner for the destination short months to help raise funding. as our resident photographer to help Vice President, SMITHGROUP “You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, SCHEDULE I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.” – Le Corbusier SCHEDULE C 18 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SCHEDULE 19

Saturday, September 21 | Basel

13.00 Arrivals, Check-In (A) Hotel Trois Rois, Hotel Basel, Hotel D Basel. Rooms available at 15.00.

13.00 - 18.00 Conference Check-In / Registration (A) B Hotel Trois Rois, Endeavor Foyer - 1st Floor

15.00 - 17.00 Basel Old Town Walking Tour from Hotel Trois Rois (A)

17.00 COD Advisory Group Meeting (by invitation only)

18.00 Conference Opening Reception (A) Hotel Trois Rois, Endeavor Room - 1st Floor Welcome to Switzerland, David Greenbaum, 2019 COD Chair

Sunday, September 22 | Basel

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

09.00 AIA COD Conference Opening Remarks (A) Hotel Trois Rois, Endeavor Room - 1st Floor • Innovators and Maintainers San Francisco/Silicon Valley Conference Recap, Lessons, COD Chair, David Greenbaum • How to Look at Innovation: An Architect’s Field Guide to Switzerland, Conference Chairs, Tiffany Melançon & Stefan Bieri A 10.00 Transfer to Fondation Beyeler (B)

10.30 Beyeler Arrival, Coffee Break D

11.00 Opening Keynote Presentation The Museum in the 21st Century, Architect Peter Zumthor

12.00 Project Tour: Fondation Beyeler (4 Groups) (B)

13.00 Transfer to Vitra, Weil am Rhein, Germany (C)

13.30 Lunch at Vitra Fire Station Presentation Innovation and the Business of Design, Vitra CEO Nora Fehlbaum

14.30 Project Tour: Vitra Campus with focus on new buildings (4 Groups)

16.15 Time on your own at VitraHaus

17.00 Transfer to Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel

17.30 Happy Hour at Swiss Architecture Museum (D) ‘Swim City’ Exhibit Presentation by Director Andreas Ruby

Dinner on your own 20 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SCHEDULE 21

Monday, September 23 | Basel

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

09.00 Basel Presentations (A) Hotel Trois Rois, Salle Belle Epoque • What’s Up in Architecture? Dr. Sacha Menz, ETH Zürich • Dichtelust, a Basel Approach, Andreas Ruby, Director Swiss Architecture Museum

10.00 Transfer to Novartis Campus (B)

10.30 Project Tour: Novartis Campus (3 groups) Marco Serra, Tschekav Muenchr, Reto Gisiger/Novartis Architects Workplace Innovation, a Closed Campus, Marco Serra, Novartis Global Chief Architect*

12.30 Lunch at Novartis at River Cloud Restaurant B After lunch, the group will split into two pre-assigned touring group., Sign-up sheets will be available on Saturday, September 21st.

Group Tour A: Group Tour B: Campus Bildes Roche Campus

13.30 13.30 A D Transfer to Campus Bildes / Dreispitzareal Transfer to Roche Campus (D) Herzog & de Meuron Kabinet (C) 14.00 14.00 Visit Roche Campus, Dreispitzareal / Kabinet visit (three groups in roation) (two groups in roation) Roche architects Donald Mak HdeM, Workplace Innovation, an Urban Campus Linda Castens, S AM 16.00 Group transfer to Dreispitzareal F

16.30 Transfer to Infrastructure Architecture buildings by Herzog & de Meuron Schaulager (E), Switching Station Auf der Wolf (F) from the outside

17.30 Transfer to hotels Night on your own to explore Basel C Evening free E 22 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SCHEDULE 23

Tuesday, September 24 | Basel to Lausanne

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

08.40 Assemble at Hotel Trois Rois for bus departure

09.00 Transfer to Laufen (A) Drive-by stops at Infrastructure Architecture buildings by Herzog & de Meuron, Ricola Storage Building, and Ricola Kreuterzentrum Visit from outside A 10.30 Arrival Laufen Bathrooms Coffee Break, Laufen Showroom

11.00 Presentation Save! Project by EOOS Design and Laufen Bathrooms

11:45 Laufen Ceramics Factory Tour

12.30 Transfer to Audemars Piguet Watchmakers, Le Brassus (B) Lunch on Bus

15.30 Audemars Piguet Visit Presentation New Museum and Facilities, Architect, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)

16.30 Project tour: Audemars Piguet Museum, and Facilities

17.30 Aperitive

18.00 Transfer to Lausanne

19.00 Lausanne arrival, hotel check-in (C) Hotel Royal Savoy B C Dinner on your own 24 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SCHEDULE 25

Wednesday, September 25 | Lausanne

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

09.00 Lausanne Presentations Hotel Royal Savoy (Ballroom B&C) • Public Participation in Urban Design, A Lausanne Approach, Matias Echanove, Urbz • Liquid Democracy Technology (DEDIS LAB): Bryan Ford, EPFL

10.15 Transfer to EPFL Campus (A)

10.30 SwissTech Convention Center Tour (B) Kenneth Ross, Architect, Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés

12.00 Lunch at Montreux Jazz Café (D) EPFL Campus B F 13.30 EPFL Campus Intro D G Etienne Marclay, EPFL Vice President for HR and Operations A C E 13.45 EPFL Campus Tour in 3 Groups: Rolex Learning Center (C), Art Lab (D), Engineering Building (E)

15.30 Transfer to Place de la Rippone (F) Via Lausanne Metro H

16.00 Place de la Rippone to Flon Quarter Walking Tour (G) Reimagining Place de la Riponne, Flon Quartier Redevelopment, Matias Echanove, Urbz

16.45 Happy Hour in Original Flon Quarter Shed, Presentation, History and Transformation of Flon, Mobimo

Dinner on your own

Walk or metro to Hotel Royal Savoy (H) 26 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SCHEDULE 27

Thursday, September 26 | Lausanne & Vevey

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

08.30 Transfer to newly completed Project Site Visits

08.45 Project Tour: Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts by Estudio Barozzi Veiga (A) Alberto Veiga, Estudio Barozzi Veiga and Carlos Viladoms, Fruehauf Henry & Viladoms

09.45 Transfer to International Olypmic Committee Headquarters

10.15 Project Tour: International Olympic Committee Headquarters by 3XN, IttenBrechbuehl (B) From the outside

11.00 Transfer to Vevey B A 11.30 Group Lunch Nest Museum (C) G 12.45 Transfer to modernest building visits: Swiss Shaping Modernity

13.00 Project Tours (3 Groups in rotation) • Nestlé Headquarters by Jean Tschumi; Patrick Moser, Curator (D) • Villa Le Lac by Le Corbusier; Patrick Moser, Curator (E) Villa Chardonne, Patrick Heiz, MADE IN • (F) F 16.15 Transfer to Hotel Royal Savoy E D C 17.00 Reception at Hotel Royal Savoy Sky Lounge (G) Reception begins on arrival at Hotel Royal Savoy

Evening free 28 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SCHEDULE 29

Friday, September 27 | Lausanne to Lucerne

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

08.15 Transfer to Alpnachstad (A) Via Interlaken D 11.30 Cogwheel railway to Mt. Pilatus (B)

12.15 Lunch at Mt. Pilatus, Queen Victoria Saal

13.30 Mt. Pilatus Presentations: “Thinking Infrastructure” C Mt. Pilatus Gipfelsaal Room • Infrastructure “Made in Switzerland,” Daniel Wiener, President, GIB • Point Cloud Modeling Technology, Advances in Landscape Analysis and Design, Matthias Vollmer / Johannes Rebsamen, ETH Zürich Dept. of Landscape Architecture • Building in the Alpine Landscape, Mt. Pilatus Master Plan, Niklaus Graber, Architect, Graber & Steiger

15.00 Mt. Pilatus Walking Tour Niklaus Graber, Architect, Graber & Steiger

16.30 Return to bus via Gondola

17:30 Transfer to Hotel Astoria

18.00 Drive by Sportarena Allmend / Towers (C) Visit from outside

18.30 Lucerne arrival, Hotel Astoria check-in (D) B

19.00 Lucerne Opening Reception, Hotel Astoria Penthouse Bar Quart Architektur will showcase books related to the conference cities and architects at the Reception

Evening free

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Saturday, September 28 | Lucerne

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel C

09.00 Closing Keynote, Lucerne Presentations D Hotel Astoria, Room 2 (A) E • Switzerland - Deep Urbanism in an Age of Instability by Markus Schaefer of Hosoya Schaefer Architects • Presentation by Swiss Museum of Transport Architect by Philippe Volpe, Gigon/Guyer I 10.00 Transfer to Swiss Museum of Transport by Gigon/Guyer (B) F 10.30 Swiss Museum of Transport Visit / Guided Tours of Museum

12.00 Lunch. After lunch, the group will split into two pre-assigned touring groups. J K B A Group Tour A: Group Tour B: H G 13.00 13.00 Transfer to Rowing Center Transfer to Pius Church (G) Rowing Center Tour by Guided tour Architect AFGH Fuhrimann Hächler (C) Walk to Finish Tower / 14.00 Bus to Office Scheitlin Syfrig Transfer to Three Terrace Houses (H) Three Terrace Houses Tour by Finish Tower Tour by Architect Architect Marques Architects AFGH Fuhrimann Hächler (D) Walk to Office Scheitlin Syfrig Architects 14.45 Transfer to Urban Villas (I) 14.45 Four Urban Villas Tour by Architect Office Scheitlin Syfrig Architects (E) ALP Architecture Lischer Partners Presentation by Scheitlin Syfrig Architects 15.45 15.45 Transfer to Lake Bath (walk or bus) (F) Transfer to Lake Bath (F)

16.00 Old Town Walking Tour (self guided)

17.00 Break

18.30 Walk to Lucerne Culture and Convention Center, entrance visit (J)

19.00 - Closing Gala Dinner on Lake of Lucerne Boat MS Diamant (K) 22.00 Attendee Recognition & Year Recap by David Greenbaum, 2019 COD Chair 50 Years of Committee on Design Leadership Transfer of the COD medallion Preview of 2020 Conferences and Events by Curt Fentress, 2020 COD Chair

22.00 Transfer to Hotel Astoria, charter bus or walk 32 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SCHEDULE 33

Post-Conference Add-on Tour Sunday, September 29 | Vals

08.00 Closing Breakfast & Check-Out

09.00 Gotthard Station (A) Self-guided tour

11.30 Andermatt Concert Hall by Studio Seilern (B) Self-guided tour

12.30 Box Lunch

13.30 Chapel Saint Benedict by Peter Zumthor (C) Self-guided tour

15.00 Arrive in Vals, check-in at 7132 Hotel Coffee at 7132 Hotel

16:00 Tour of 7132 Hotel (D) Presentation of Planned Expansion, exhibit visit A

17.00 Reception at Blue Bar, 7132 Hotel

18.00 Evening Free C Monday, September 30 | Vals B Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

Free day Thermal Baths D Attendees will have access to the thermal baths during all published open hours.

Explore Vals on your own or enjoy the 7132 Hotel Activities: These activities can be booked directly with 7132 Hotel and are not included in AIA COD registration pricing: • 30 minutes flight with our 7132 helicopter. This service can be organized for 6 people per flight for CHF 100.00 per person. This service can be confirmed upon the weather conditions. Please book in advance. • Pizza baking at Da Papa can be organized during the dinner timeframe. • For river rafting, please visit https://www.wasserchraft.ch/home-english • For hiking information, please visit 7132 front desk

16.00 Swiss Wine Tasting 7132 Silver at 7132 Hotel

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Tuesday, October 1 | Vals, Chur, Haldenstein

Breakfast on your own, complimentary at your hotel

11.30 Presentation at Hotel 7132 (A) Seven Room Graubunden regional architecture and development, Daniel A. Walser

12.15 Lunch at 7132 Red

13.30 Transfer to Chur

14:30 Guided walking tour by Daniel A. Walser Shelter for Roman Ruins by Peter Zumthor (B) Museum of Fine Arts Extension by Estudio Barozzi Veiga (C) (exterior tour only, tour the inside on your own) House Zschaler, Rudolf Olgiati Entrance to the Cantonal Parlamanet, Valerio Olgiati D Post Bus station, Richard Brosi and Robert Obrist (buildings), Ove Arup (structural engineer) C New Train Station, Chur, Conradin Clavuot B Tivoli, Jüngling & Haagmann

16.30 Pick up by bus at the train station to transfer to Hadelstein

17:00 Atelier Zumthor (D) Visit with Architect Peter Zumthor in his Haldenstein Studio

18.00 Transfer to Vals Hotel 7132 A 19.30 Dinner on your own

Wednesday, October 2 | Vals to Zürich

07.00 Breakfast, Check-out

08.00 Transfer to Zürich (E) Exact time and arrangements to be adjusted

10.30 Drop-off Zürich Airport, then Zürich City Center Charbonnet: “When we finished the house in Chardonne, we heard, ‘Wow! You know your Mies.’ We don’t deny it. There’s glass, steel and minimalism, but it’s not as purist as Mies’ work. There’s an awkward gadget staircase, a large chimney and columns that stick outwards. We don’t really mind being accused of quoting. I don’t think one can escape from what one knows. All architects steal, all the time, no matter how much they think they are inventing something PROJECTS completely new. Heiz: It’s true. We steal consciously, but not PROJECTS obsessively. We just don’t care about whether we are doing something that hasn’t been done before. It’s perfectly alright if what we do is an echo of something else.

– MADE IN PROJECTS | BASEL 39

The Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois

The Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois lies at Picasso stayed with us and always told the very heart of the city of Basel. At the press that he did NOT sleep in the the exact spot where, in the Middle bed while staying at Les Trois Rois but Ages, the ships docked at the salt instead stayed up all night sitting on our tower in order to transport that much terrace, listening to the sound of the sought-after product down the Rhine and out into the world. Discover Basel, city falling asleep and then waking up the tri-border area, and the charm of again. Was he using just a bit of artistic our region. licence with this tale? The truth is that he had an appointment with Paul Klee One of the oldest city hotels in that day, but Klee never showed up, Europe – founded in 1681 as an inn which made Picasso pretty mad – “This for gentlemen, rebuilt in 1844 as a is why I stayed awake on the terrace Grand Hotel – receives guests from all all night (drinking and smoking)” – his over the world. words of truth. What’s the best kept secret of Les Trois Rois that has never been – Tanja Wegmann, General Manager revealed before? Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois AIA Committee on Design 2019 International Conference Switzerland September AIA Committee 21-29, on 2019Design 2019AIA Committee International on ConferenceDesign Switzerland2019 International Conference SeptemberSwitzerlandAIA Committee 21-29, on 2019Design BASEL AIASeptember2019 Committee International OLD-TOWN 21-29, on Conference2019Design GUIDED TOUR 2019Switzerland International Conference AIA Committee on Design SwitzerlandSeptember 21-29, 2019 2019 International Conference Saturday, SeptemberBASEL 21OLD-TOWN21-29, Sept 2019 2019 GUIDED 3 pm - 5 TOUR pm SwitzerlandBASEL OLD-TOWN GUIDED TOUR Meeting September place: 21-29, 2019Hotel Les Trois Rois Saturday,BASEL OLD-TOWN 21 Sept 2019 GUIDED 3 pm - 5 pmTOUR Saturday, 21 Sept 2019 3 pm - 5 pm Meeting BASEL place:OLD-TOWN Hotel Les GUIDED Trois Rois TOUR Saturday,MeetingBASEL place:OLD-TOWN 21 Sept Hotel 2019 Les GUIDED 3 Trois pm -Rois 5 pmTOUR

Saturday,Meeting place: 21 Sept Hotel 2019 Les 3 Trois pm -Rois 5 pm PROJECTS | BASEL 41 Saturday,Meeting place: 21 Sept Hotel 2019 Les 3 Trois pm -Rois 5 pm Meeting place: Hotel Les Trois Rois Old-Town Guided Tour

Hotel Les Trois Rois Amadeus Merian, 1844

Blaues / Weisses Haus Samuel Werenfels, 1775

Museum der Kulturen Herzog & de Meuron, 2010

Basler Münster 1019, 1500

Tour Guide: Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek Architecture Walks and Talks - Basel

All walks and talks are researched and presented by Dina Bonefacic- Mihaljek, M.Arch. - an architect by training, educated in Europe and the Kunstmuseum U.S., and a longtime resident of the Basel area. Christ & Gentenbein, 2016

Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek, M.Arch. Dina Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek, Bonefacic-Mihaljek, M.Arch. architecture walks and talks architecture architecture walks walks andand talks mail Dina Bonefacic-Mihaljek, [email protected] M.Arch. mobile + 41 76 506 5407 mail mailDinaarchitecture Bonefacic-Mihaljek, [email protected] [email protected] walks and talks M.Arch. mobileweb +architecture-walks-and-talks.net 41 76 506 5407 mobile facebookarchitecture + www.facebook.com/archiwalkstalks41 76 walks 506 5407 and talks mailwebDina Bonefacic-Mihaljek, dina@architecture-walks-and-talks.netarchitecture-walks-and-talks.net M.Arch. web facebook architecture-walks-and-talks.net www.facebook.com/archiwalkstalks facebook mobile www.facebook.com/archiwalkstalks + 41 76 506 5407 mailwebarchitecture dina@architecture-walks-and-talks.netarchitecture-walks-and-talks.net walks and talks facebookmobile +www.facebook.com/archiwalkstalks 41 76 506 5407 mailweb dina@architecture-walks-and-talks.netarchitecture-walks-and-talks.net mobilefacebook +www.facebook.com/archiwalkstalks 41 76 506 5407 web architecture-walks-and-talks.net facebook www.facebook.com/archiwalkstalks PROJECTS | BASEL 43 Photo by Mark Niederman Mark by Photo

The Fondation Beyeler Renzo Piano and Peter Zumthor

The Fondation Beyeler is the most Piano is elegantly integrated into the popular art museum in Switzerland landscape in an ideal combination of and is considered one of the finest nature, art, and architecture. worldwide. Its location in the middle of Berower Park, with its old trees, water The extension by Peter Zumthor will lily pond and its views of cornfields, be constructed on the previously grazing cows, vineyards, and the private land of the Iselin-Weber Park, foothills of the Black Forest, is unique. which adjoins the Fondation Beyeler to Consisting of around 400 paintings the South. The special characteristic and sculptures by Modernist and of Peter Zumthor’s project is that it contemporary masters, the Beyeler envisages not a single large museum Collection was accumulated by Hildy building but three relatively small ones and Ernst Beyeler during more than fifty that are adapted to Riehen’s village-like years as successful gallery owners. character and blend harmoniously into the natural environment. Zumthor plans Impressed by the work of Renzo a simple building for administration Piano, who had designed the Centre and deliveries, a House for Art and Pompidou in Paris and the Menil a transparent pavilion for events. collection in Houston, the museum Together, the three buildings create a founders commissioned the Italian subtle link between the two parks. architect without organizing a competition. The building by Renzo Text credits: Atelier Peter Zumthor Courtesy Atelier Peter Zumthor PROJECTS | BASEL 45

Vitra Zaha Hadid and Herzog & de Meuron

Creating innovative products and The Vitra Campus with buildings by concepts with great designers is some of the world’s leading architects Vitra’s essence. They are developed and the Vitra Design Museum with its in Switzerland and installed worldwide exhibitions on design and architecture, by architects, companies, and private design archives, and a comprehensive users to build inspirational spaces for furniture collection are all part of Vitra. living, working, as well as public areas. They inspire visitors, inform the design process, and create an atmosphere in With its classics Vitra represents which innovation flourishes. groundbreaking 20th century design. Today, in combining technical and The architecture park at the conceptual expertise with the creativity Campus in Weil am Rhein is as of contemporary designers, Vitra seeks characteristic of Vitra as the home to continue pushing the boundaries of and office furniture that it produces. the design discipline. In 1981, after a major fire destroyed most of the factory buildings built in A family business for eighty years, the 1950s, this site was developed Vitra believes in lasting relationships into a heterogeneous ensemble of with customers, employees and contemporary architecture. designers, durable products, sustainable growth, and the power of good design. 46 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PROJECTS | BASEL 47

Meeting point Vitra Campus 21 8 Vitra Schaudepot Fire Station Parking

1, 2 Factory Buildings, Nicholas Grimshaw, 1981/1983 Information 3 Balancing Tools, Claes Oldenburg & Shop Coosje van Bruggen, 1984 WC 4 Vitra Design Museum, Frank Gehry, 1989 Restaurant 5 Gate, Frank Gehry, 1989 6 Factory Building, Frank Gehry, 1989 Bus stop 7 Conference Pavilion, Tadao Ando, 1993 Train station Vitra Slide Tower 19 8 Fire Station, Zaha Hadid, 1993 Tram 9 Factory Building, Álvaro Siza, 1994 15 – 20 min Public walkway 10 Dome, after Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1975/2000 South 11 Petrol Station, Jean Prouvé, 1953/2003 entrance 22 12 Vitra Design Museum Gallery, Frank Gehry, 2003 21 Blockhaus

13 Bus Stop, Jasper Morrison, 2006 8 16 14 VitraHaus, Herzog & de Meuron, 2010 2 9 19 15 Airstream Kiosk, 1968/2011 16 Factory Building, SANAA, 2012 17 Diogene, Renzo Piano, 2013 18 Álvaro-Siza-Promenade, 2014 1 6 17 22 19 Vitra Slide Tower, Carsten Höller, 2014 23 N 11 20 Bell, from: 24 Stops, 24 10 Tobias Rehberger, 2015 18 21 Vitra Schaudepot, 4 12 5 14 Herzog & de Meuron, 2016 7 22 Blockhaus, Thomas Schütte, 3 20 15 2018 13 23 Ruisseau, Ronan & Erwan North Bouroullec, 2018 entrance 24 Ring, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, 2018 Vitra Design Museum 4 VitraHaus 14 Vitra Design Museum Gallery 12

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Swiss Architecture Museum & Swim Exhibit Peter Märkli (interiors)

The Swiss Architecture Museum facilitates cross-border connections (S AM) is the leading institution in the and international exchange. mediation of contemporary architecture in Switzerland. Centrally located and S AM has specialized in temporary in the immediate vicinity of numerous exhibitions. With an average of 4 other cultural institutions, S AM exhibitions each year, oriented towards invigorates and shapes Switzerland’s the key program elements “history architectural discourse with its and the present in Switzerland” and program and seeks to bridge the “learning from...”, S AM appeals to gap between professional discourse professionals (architects, engineers, and the wider public. and planners), but also, primarily, to a broad public with an interest Being situated in Basel is no in architecture. coincidence, as the city of Basel has developed to become the center of Swiss cultural and architectural The exhibitions’ content is reflected discourse. As one of the most on and supplemented by means of important European architectural guided tours, podium discussions, centers, Basel has an abundance of talks, workshops, work presentations, outstanding classic modernist and accompanying publications from the contemporary structures. S AM series, etc. In addition to the exhibitions, S AM also fulfils its function The city’s unique location, right on as a specialist platform for exchange the border with Germany and France, and networking. PROJECTS | BASEL 51 Aerial view Frank Gehry’s Fabrikstrasse 15

Novartis Campus Frank Gehry – Fabrikstrasse 15 | Tadao Ando – Fabrikstrasse 28 Diener & Diener – Forum 3 | SANAA – Fabrikstrasse 4 | Peter Märkli – Fabrikstrasse 6 David Chipperfield – Fabrikstrasse 22 | Novartis Main Gate by Marco Serra Novartis Forum by Professor Vittorio Lampugnani | Rafael Moneo – Fabrikstrasse 14 Yoshio Taniguchi – Fabrikstrasse 10 | Fumihiko Maki-Square 3 Herzog & de Meuron – Asklepios 8 | Alvaro Siza – Virchow 6 | Rahul Mehrotra – Virchow 16

Spurring innovation to improve health The open space work environment on care for patients around the world is the Campus, which allows for formal at the heart of the strategy of Novartis and informal collaboration that simplifies and is the main driving force that stands and at the same time intensifies behind the substantial overhaul and communication between associates modernization of the St. Johann site in and thus helps increase innovation, Basel, which serves as the company also serves as the blueprint for other headquarters since 1996. Campuses in the United States and Asia. Over the past decade St. Johann, which Clarity and creativity are the trademark lies in a traditional city quarter located along the river banks of the Rhine, has signs of the Novartis Campus in Basel, seen the construction of 14 new buildings which due to its balanced interplay of and has thus been transformed into a state-of-the-art buildings, squares, parks, state-of-the-art Campus that provides an shops and restaurants located along the ideal workspace to its more than 7,000 central axis of the Fabrikstrasse, stands associates. The project is ready to be out for its elegance and comfort as much completed in 2030. as for its functionality and efficiency. Building design by RMA Architects and Blaser Architects / Butscher Architects Butscher / Architects Blaser and Architects RMA by design Building 52 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE CONFERENCE DESIGN ON COMMITTEE AIA 2019 | SWITZERLAND PROJECTS PROJECTS | BASEL 53

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Roche Campus Herzog & de Meuron

Roche has been committed to to open exchanges among employees. improving lives since the company was Flexible building use is another founded in 1896 in Basel, Switzerland. important feature: Office spaces are Today, it creates innovative medicines modular in design, for example, and and diagnostic tests that help millions can be adapted to meet the required of patients globally. mix of single offices, open plan offices, and meeting rooms. The office high-rise, Building 1, is a key pillar of our site development Moreover, Building 1 is a most energy- strategy. With its straightforward yet efficient building, i.e. heated with waste unmistakable design, it blends in heat and cooled with groundwater, perfectly with the Roche grounds and while setting new energy efficiency the Basel cityscape. With 41 floors standards with its innovative façade and workspace for around 2,000 and LED lighting. employees, the office high-rise also shows a clear commitment to the The office high-rise offers employees an Basel site. attractive work environment and top- quality infrastructure. Many colleagues The new building meets the highest from various areas are relocated standards in terms of functionality to the high-rise. This new physical and technology. Open communication proximity creates excellent conditions zones on all office levels, extending up for successful teamwork and the to three floors or more, are conducive company’s innovative force. PROJECTS | BASEL 57

Dreispitzareal and Kabinett Herzog & de Meuron

Dreispitz – which was formerly expanded to include a three-storey, zig- known purely for its light industry and zag-shaped upper floor. warehouses – is being transformed as it fills up with apartments, schools, and The Jacques Herzog and Pierre arts institutions. Well-known names in de Meuron Kabinett is a charitable the contemporary architecture scene foundation established with the have created exciting projects here that intention of making the entire body of have given the area a facelift. And the the estate, divided into sub-cabinets, transformation is still under way. accessible to the public. The aim, first and foremost, is to have the holdings In 2014, the architects Morger + Dettli permanently domiciled in Basel in their handed over the Academy of Art and entirety, such that they may contribute Design to the University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland. to the cultural substance of the city, In the same year, their colleagues which has been a lifelong inspiration Herzog & De Meuron completed the to the architects. To that end, the archive and apartment building on the museums and institutions in Basel will site. In 2015, Zwimpfer Partner created have priority in view of possible loan the Oslo Nord office and residential inquiries. The Kunstmuseum Basel, in building. The transit warehouse particular, will be privileged, should dating from 1922 was refurbished by there be an interest in presenting parts Denamrk’s Bjarke Ingels Group and of the cabinet on permanent loan. PROJECTS | BASEL 59

Switching Station Auf der Wolf Herzog & de Meuron (Exterior tour only)

On the edge of railway tracks, next As a result of the copper coiling, to the new railway engine depot and the building acts as a Faraday the old walls of the Wolf-Gottesacker cage protecting the electronic (cemetery) from the eighteenth and equipment inside from unexpected nineteenth centuries, there is a tall, external effects. copper volume containing the signal box. On six floors, there is mainly At the same time, it is also able to electronic equipment for the control express vividly these physical qualities. of points and signals to the depot and Contrary to conventional industrial the related tracks, as well as a few buildings, its scale is open and workstations and their ancillary spaces. indeterminate (floor divisions are not recognizable), so that the configuration The building’s concrete shell is is able to take up a specific relation with insulated on the exterior and wrapped the adjacent field of railway tracks. with approximately 20 cm-wide copper strips that are twisted at certain places in order to admit daylight. PROJECTS | BASEL 61

Schaulager Museum Herzog & de Meuron (Museum is closed for exhibit reinstall. Exterior tour only.)

Schaulager: a new building type? installed according to the artists’ What is the point of a Schaulager, of intentions. The conditions under which a building in which art is stored but the works are kept visible correspond still accessible for the public to view? to international conservation standards; What ideas about art and a collection they are maintained at levels of light, strategy are involved, and what is temperature, and humidity determined the best architectural and urban as ideal for storing artworks. The works development concept for it? are thus in an ‘optimal condition’ for viewing. Offices and workshops, an “We were not aware of any comparable auditorium and the necessary loading building type that could address and unloading facilities round off the and express all the problems posed, spatial program. so of course we felt fascinated and challenged, and had an equally rigorous In our initial designs we tried to dialogue with the clients. condense the idea of storage into The brief was for a warehouse for a single vertical and a horizontal contemporary art, where works take area. A gigantic wall would have up considerably less space than in accommodated all the wall-mounted art a museum because they are hung somewhat like a junk-shop; the rest of side by side on the walls and placed the work would have been distributed closer together on the floor. The over a floor area without dividing walls.” works stored here are unpacked and arranged in accessible spaces, – Herzog & de Meuron PROJECTS | BASEL 63

Ricola Kreuterzentrum Herzog & de Meuron (Exterior tour only)

The new Kräuterzentrum (herb center) the center, following in the footsteps is situated like an erratic block in the of Ricola‘s other buildings: the fully midst of a landscape dotted with automated storage building of 1987, conventional industrial buildings. Its the production and storage building elongated shape echoes the pathways of 1993 in Mulhouse-Brunstatt and the hedges that have long been with its screenprint façade and the a distinctive feature of this area. The glazed marketing headquarters of length of the building also reflects 1999 in Laufen. These buildings not the steps involved in the industrial only embody Ricola’s exceptional processing of herbs, from drying and philosophy and commitment to the cutting to blending and storing. The environment, they each make a striking new processing plant enables Ricola to contribution to their locations. integrate these important steps in the company’s own in-house production. The delivery entrance and warehouse The Kräuterzentrum is built largely sections of the herb center’s façade out of locally sourced earth; it is like are monolithic, with the loam walls a geometrical segment of landscape visible in the interior as well. The with its dimensions and archaic impact prefabricated earth elements are heightened by the radical choice of manufactured in a nearby factory out material. Herbs and earth define the of ingredients extracted from local purpose-built, distinctive character of quarries and mines. PROJECTS | BASEL 65

Ricola Storage Building Herzog & de Meuron (Exterior tour only)

The building serves the fully automated Visual references are also made to storage of herbal sweets. Seen from the traditional stacking of sawn timber the outside and from a distance, the boards around the numerous saw mills building reveals itself as a singular of the area, as well as to the limestone unified whole, as something that quarry within which the storage building one could understand as a storage sits. The foundation beams have been building. The Eternit panels, larger at left exposed. Layers of construction the top than at the bottom, make up the have been left visible so that the basic cladding and underline the difference cladding of galvanized sheet metal between the lower part, where can be seen with the loading bay. innumerable individual foundations The image of the stacking of planks support the façade construction, and is seen on approaching the building; the upper part, where a cantilevering every element of the cladding is a kind timber construction reveals the of storage frame wherein parts of the galvanized sheet-metal box on the façade are “stored“, just as goods are building’s inside. stored in the building’s interior. PROJECTS | LE BRASSUS 67

Audemars Piguet BIG and CCHE Architecture

Swiss luxury watchmaker Audemars through the building, while being Piguet have announced BIG as the physically adjacent. designers for an extension to their headquarters in Le Brassus, near Le The roof of the structure is a continuous Chenit. The design includes gallery sheet of steel clad in brass. Its spaces for a museum, work spaces, undulating form allows breaks in and a guest house. Conceived as a the roofline, giving an opportunity spiralling glass pavilion embedded in for light to enter and for views out. the landscape, BIG’s design - entitled This lightweight roof is supported Maison des Fondateurs - will take by structural glass walls which visitors on a narrative journey through simultaneously control the route the company’s 139-year history. through the building while allowing the The spiraling form was conceived visitor views of the whole gallery. as a response to a programmatic requirement, which called for a In addition to the pavilion-like museum succession of galleries and workshops, structure, the building includes a however the logistics of the workshops subterranean guest house, with views required them to be connected. over the Vallée de Joux.

The spiral shape allows the workshops Hotel des Horlogers will be integrated to be spread along the narrative path into the topography of the landscape. PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 69

Royal Savoy MKV Interior Design Ltd, London

Dating from 1909, this legendary hotel its history. The hotel now boasts 196 has added to the lustre of Lausanne’s rooms and suites, business facilities, fame as a refuge for royalty and an exclusive terrace restaurant, lobby aristocrats from around the world. For lounge, and cigar lounge. This luxury many years, the Spanish royal family hotel also features a SkyLounge on made the hotel their home in exile, and the roof with a unique 360° panoramic Thailand’s king also spent much of his view and an extensive spa area. youth in residence here. With its unique silhouette and fascinating heritage, the Royal Savoy Hotel & Spa Lausanne has The historic building is in the “Grand become an integral part of Lausanne’s Château aesthetic” and is complemented skyline and history. by a newly constructed contemporary wing. The hotel’s grounds cover 5,000 The legendary Royal Savoy Hotel & Spa sqm park, situated between the new Lausanne has written a new chapter in and historical building. EVENTS 71 Dominique Perrault, ArchitectureDominique Perrault,

EPFL Campus

EPFL is the research home of the These include 7,000 students as well beginning of the modern computer as professors, over 4,000 researchers mouse, of the ambitious Blue Brain and other faculty members, plus Project, of the fastest boat in the world administrative staff and a number of (Hydroptère), of the Americas Cup entrepreneurs running small start-up winner Alinghi, and of innovative ideas science and technology businesses towards sustainable development. located on the campus. Offering tuition at all levels from undergraduate to PhD, it is one of the Encouraging Collaborations worldʼs fastest growing campuses. It is The vision of EPFL President Patrick currently ranked alongside Cambridge Aebischer “is to build a university as the top university in Europe in the where traditional boundaries between category of engineering, technology, and computer sciences according to faculties are replaced by a spirit of the Shanghai Academic Ranking of collaboration; a campus designed in World Universities (ARWU). such a waythat mathematicians and engineers may meet spontaneously Situated on a single campus with neuroscientists and micro- overlooking the shores of Lake technicians to envision new Geneva at Lausanne, Switzerland, technologies that improve everyday with extraordinary views of the Alps, life; a campus that is open and EPFL accommodates 11,000 people. welcoming to the public.” www.epfl.ch 72 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 73 PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 75 Fernando Guerra Fernando

EPFL Campus | SwissTech Convention Center Richter Dahl Rocha & Associés

The SwissTech Convention Center is ‘beveled stone’ at the campus’ northern one of the largest conference centers edge, gradually detaches from the in the Lake Geneva region hosting ground while releasing a large glass events of international fame. This surface facing south and north majestic building is distinguished by its allowing natural light into the vast modernity, its innovative technologies, conference room. and a warm and experienced team. The supporting structure of the center, The SwissTech Convention Center shaped like a catamaran, is made of distinguishes itself from other major two large three-dimensional metallic congress centers by its number of beams supported on two pairs of conference rooms and its adaptable reinforced concrete service cores that capacity. The architecture of the are located at the center and north building allows three auditoriums to of the building. On the south, these become one; the number of seats in beams are cantilevered. The anodized each auditorium can also be changed aluminum external coating contrasts in just a few minutes. This modularity with the more intimate and refined is based on two mechanisms: a character of the natural wood interior system of sliding walls and the Gala trim. In turn, the light interior coating Venue technology. contrasts with the vertical cores imposing presence and with the large The Congress Center, positioned like a hall balconies. DMK Architecture Photography Architecture DMK PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 77 Alain Herzog Alain

EPFL Campus | Rolex Center SANAA

The Rolex Learning Center is above all of open space beneath, which draws a library and learning space devoted to people from all sides towards a the cultivation of knowledge by an array central entrance. of different methods. The most audacious aspect of the It has one of the largest collections new library is its lack of physical of scientific literature in Europe, with boundaries. The large open space is over 500,000 volumes. In addition, defined by its artificial geography. It an exciting range of new pedagogical groups silent and calm zones along its technologies in the building, as well as hills and slopes, rather than offering the layout itself, are innovations to the traditional cloistered study rooms. As public’s approach to texts and learning. well as providing social areas and an impressive auditorium, the building Located centrally on the EPFL campus, and its new hub, the building is lends itself to the establishment of quiet essentially one continuous structure zones and silent zones, acoustically spread over the site. The building is separated areas created through rectangular in plan, but appears to be changes in height. more organic in shape because of the way that its roof and floor undulate The slopes, valleys, and plateaus within gently, always in parallel. With few the building, as well as the shapes visible supports, the building touches made by the patios, all contribute to the ground lightly, leaving an expanse these barrier-free delineations of space. PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 79 Alain Herzog Alain

EPFL Campus | Art Lab Kengo Kuma & Associates

The project site is a vast lawn, a void plaza down South to their residences in the middle of the EPFL campus. It several times a day. disconnects the North side of the campus (the Esplanade plaza, social The porches provided between the heart of the campus, and the tram volumes under the roof will be aligned station) from the students’ residential to the main street coming from the area on the South. It also separates the West side, leading to the main public dense West part of the campus with the parking areas, and to the new tree currently evolving East side that is avenue coming from the East, currently articulated around the impressive under construction. Therefore, the presence of the Rolex Learning Center. porches will provide permeability through the building attracting and This vast project site allows placement connecting these both sides of the of the pavilions in many possible campus. By transforming the site into a locations and configurations. The three place where students, professors, and required pavilions are gathered into visitors will pleasantly pass by every one very long and thin building that day enjoying the new cultural activities would transform the site from being that will take place under this roof, a dysfunctional void into a campus this whole area will become the new connection hub: The 250m long roof will center of the campus and will bring a shelter and go along with the students’ more social and cultural dimension to walking flow from the north Esplanade the EPFL. Alain Herzog Alain PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 81 Vincent Fillon

EPFL Campus | Mechanical Engineering Building Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris and Architram

Like the work happening inside it, offices to the sun. For all this metal, the new building for the mechanical it is surprisingly light, and strays far engineering department at the École from the dark, panelized 1970s building Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne it replaced. (EPFL) in Switzerland is a study in movement. Its façade of metal mesh is The building is part of an effort at EPFL articulated in offset accordion folds, like to break from the aesthetic guidelines the tumbling blocks of a Jacob’s ladder laid out in a master plan from the 1970s, toy caught mid-fall. Designed by Paris- resulting in a growing assemblage of based Dominique Perrault Architecture contemporary architecture. DPA has (DPA), the building seems on the verge contributed two other buildings to this of straightening out its hinges and collection, a renovation of an old standing up, or, perhaps, slinking down library into an administration building, into a flatpack origami fold. with vertical bands of color striping its otherwise shiny black façade; the The 223,000-square-foot building firm’s forthcoming Teaching Bridge behind the façade is a relatively simple has yet to break ground. These new collection of offices and labs arranged buildings, says Perrault, Hon. FAIA, around a central atrium. But when the (who is himself a professor at EPFL), building’s automated climate control are creating more of an urban feel systems kick in, the façade comes to on the campus by emphasizing their life as its slanted mesh panels slide to ground floor access and orientation the sides, selectively opening perimeter to one another. PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 83

Place de la Rippone

Lausanne’s Place de la Riponne, the site’s interesting, funnel-shaped a grand square in the heart of topography. By the standards of old Switzerland’s fourth-largest city, is Europe, the space has been warped the kind of historically significant, by some ungainly traffic planning, dramatically sited urban set piece that with a strip of the square reimagined would likely be the tourist-thronged as the feeder road to a subterranean highlight of any North American city. parking lot. Flanked on one side by the steroidally grandiose neo-Renaissance Palais de Still, if Lausanne shows how bad Rumine (the building in which Iraq’s planning can screw up a magnificent borders were drawn up in 1923), the space, the city is now trying hard to broad plaza stands at the foot of a make up for it. This year, Lausanne hill stacked with layers of turrets and has been piloting a radically inclusive steeples, beyond which you can see public consultation into the area’s snow-capped Alpine mountain peaks. future. The city is not just offering the public possible options to choose from. But somehow, the city has managed By piloting months of information- to mess it up. The square’s ring of late gathering from local people that 19th to mid-20th century buildings— culminated in a three-day mass which range visually from decent to workshop, it is trying to spark an almost spectacular—has been somewhat existential debate about what the rudely interrupted by a brutalist early squares mean—or could mean—to the 1960s headquarters for the state many diverse, overlapping groups that government that serves to mask form the public. PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 85 Alain Herzog Alain

Flon Quarter Voie-du-Chariot 3 à 7 by Richter - Dahl Rocha & Associés Architectes SA (left) Rue de Genève 7 by Mercier & Squalli Côtes-de-Montbenon 20-22-24 by Burckhardt+Partner SA Côtes-de-Montbenon 1-3-5 by Bakker et Blanc architectes associés M2 Metro Station by Bernard Tschumi

While being in the middle of the In 1832, a cholera epidemic led the city of Lausanne, Quartier du Flon town to bridge the Flon and the is nonetheless characterized by a Louve, another river running through distinct identity. Quartier du Flon has Lausanne. Authorities started to fill now become an innovative district, in the Flon upstream and to slightly yet bearing in itself the strength of its level off a belt of land around the river. industrial past. Even its name reminds They constructed the Pont Pichard us of its origins. bridge, with its double span of 25-metre high arches. Around 1740, as the Mercier family moved to the banks of the Flon with a In 1868, two courageous entrepreneurs, view to setting up a tannery, the Flon Louis Gonin and the tanner Jean- valley was a natural, inhabited valley Jacques Mercier-Marcel, were hoping ran through by a river. With the dawn to be part of the industrial boom of the industrial revolution in the 19th and submitted an ambitious plan to century, new sawmills, fullers and the town. They conceived a goods tanneries were established in, the Flon station serving a future railway linking valley, bringing with them an unsavoury Lausanne and Ouchy, together with reputation caused by the malodorous a warehousing depot. The railway business of leather working. The people would be powered by the channeling of Lausanne avoided the area. of the Grenet waters and Lac de Bret towards Lausanne. La Miroiterie building, Brauen Wälchli architectes PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 87

Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts Estudio Barozzi Veiga with Fruehauf, Henry & Viladoms

In 2011, Barozzi/Veiga won the museums gravitate. The void stretches international competition for the along the site and integrates the masterplan of the new Art district buildings in the scale of the city fabric in Lausanne, Switzerland – Platform and, by connecting to the existing 10 – and the design of the Fine train station plaza, installs them in Arts Museum. continuity of the city´s public space. The architecture becomes the frame of Located in the city centre, the project the urban life of the city, the container proposed a master plan for the city´s of the new public plaza. three main museums: the Museum of Fine Arts MCB-A, the Museum of The new Museum of Fine Arts takes Contemporary Design and Applied Arts place on the site’s southern edge as a MUDAC and the Photography Museum, longitudinal monolithic volume, parallel Musée de l’Elysée. to the rails. Like the train station, it defines an urban space while protecting The site of more than 2 hectares, near it from the trains’ nuisances. Embracing the central train station, was mostly this condition, the Museum of Fine occupied by an old 19th century train Arts, the biggest of the three museums, hall and some other industrial buildings. carries and expresses the memory of the site, echoing to the former industrial As an urban strategy, the projects condition of the site with pragmatic implement a new structuring void, a forms, rigorous geometry, and hard, new public plaza around which the sharp lines. PROJECTS | LAUSANNE 89 Photo courtesy of 3XN/IOC

Olympic Headquarters 3XN with IttenBrechbuehl (Exterior tour only)

The new headquarters of the Minergie P – makes Olympic House the International Olympic Committee will most sustainable building in the world. bring together 500 employees currently With its dynamic, undulating façade, working in disparate offices throughout the building will appear different from the city. The headquarter is designed all angles and convey the energy of an around three key values/objectives: athlete in motion. Its interior is designed movement, flexibility, and sustainability. Receiving three of the most rigorous with as few structural constraints sustainable building certifications – as possible. This open and flexible LEED v4 Platinum, with the highest environment will adapt to multiple work score ever given, SNBS Platinum, and styles now and in the future. Rendering courtesy of 3XN/IOC PROJECTS | VEVEY 91 Mike Bink Mike

Nest Museum Swiss Concept Consult Architects

More than 100 Dutch designers, Underneath, Tinker designed a large, engineers, and builders worked floating, organic world made up of together on the scenography for Nest white, flowing forms and containing Museum. Tinker involved many other a dozen playful exhibits. In addition, creative companies in the project, the first factory houses parts of the including Bruns (engineering and experience. The old bakery has given production) and Mansveld (AV and a new live as Café Henri and the lighting technics). original Villa became offices and event The Swiss Concept Consult Architects venue. The €45 million experience renovated the industrial heritage site Nest Museum (architecture and and covered it with a magnificent scenography) opened to visitors on glass roof and steel construction. 15 June 2016. PROJECTS | VEVEY 93

Nestlé Headquarters Jean Tschumi

In 2000, nearly four decades after multinational firm, built a curvilinear his inauguration, Jean Tschumi volume and glass landscape. completed the remodeling of the office building of Nesté, the largest company The Swiss building became an icon of in Switzerland. architecture of its time. Now, ironically, the story is more respectful of the The building was designed by the design Tschumi, because assessment architect of Lausanne, Jean Tschumi guidelines prevail today that there was in 1960. For many years the silhouette in the 1960s. became popular glazed his 6-storey building with a “Y” that evokes Therefore, given the signs of technical inevitably the Unesco headquarters obsolescence of the building and the in Paris. need for adjustments and extensions, The building was implanted into Nestlé went to study architects Jacques the space left by the demolition of Ignacio Dahl Rocha and Richter. the Grand-Hötel, a palace of the late nineteenth century destroyed This is the third project for the offices. regardless of its heritage values. This The original building had an intervention destruction caused great excitement at by Tschumi in 1975, and then Burkhardt the time. However, some values were had doubled its area. Therefore, the considered amid jubilant euphoria of Richter & Dahl Rocha, twenty five years that decade, and this is how the iconic later, has very different characteristics. PROJECTS | VEVEY 95 Patrick Moser Patrick

Villa Le Lac Le Corbusier

The Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier (1923) minimum living space and the dwelling is the fruit of ergonomic research and for the greatest number. This modest functionalist analysis—exceptional in 64-square-metre construction already 1923—aimed at achieving a typological brings together three of the future standard: the narrow house with a “five points of a new architecture”: single bay. That very standard was the open floor plan, the roof garden, subsequently applied all over the world. and the ribbon window—one of the first in the history of architecture. A Prototype of the minimal house offering a maximum of comfort and genuine technical experiment, this space, the Villa “Le Lac” crystallizes 11-metre-long horizontal window bears ideas that would have considerable witness to a new concept of landscape influence during the 20th century framing and the relationship with the on the fundamental questions of the building site. PROJECTS | VEVEY 97 Photos by Walter Mair and Joel Tettamanti

Villa Chardonne MADE IN

Chardonne was the winner of an Apart from radically following function, Honorable Mention in the Prix Acier historical references are used in much 2009 (European Steel Design Award). of the work. Charbonnet said, “When This house hovers over the Lake we finished the house in Chardonne, Geneva (Lac Léman) as though it had we heard, ‘Wow! You know your Mies.’ arrived in a single piece. Set up on We don’t deny it. There’s glass, steel struts, it touches the site as little as and minimalism, but it’s not as purist as possible and leaves ample space for Mies’s work. a garden, while views of the lake are offered from almost every angle. The There’s an awkward gadget staircase, owners of the house are familiar with a large chimney and columns that stick the world of aviation and this appears outwards. We don’t really mind being evident in the final design. The house accused of quoting. I don’t think one is entered via a suspended walkway. can escape from what one knows. All The architects used a Vierendeel beam architects steal, all the time, no matter structure with four modular sections. how much they think they are inventing Two angled pillars hold up the strictly something completely new. rectangular form. There are non load- bearing walls within the house. The In the end, the Chardonne house had jury of the Prix Acier 2009 noted that to deal with incredible limitations: a this “unusually simplified, yet refined small sloping plot, height restrictions, concept for a house in the form of a a budget. And we wanted to exploit bridge” is notable for the attention to the amazing views. So, forgive us details shown by the architects and Mies, but we had to do a little bit of the builders. ‘less is more’.” Photos by Walter Mair and Joel Tettamanti PROJECTS | LUCERNE 99 D.M. Wehrli

Mt. Pilatus Graber & Steiger

The impressive, crystalline silhouette construction, and materialization, and of the Pilatus massif was integrated is based on a hybrid steel and concrete into the design for the panorama composite system. gallery and developed further in an architectural form. The new structure is Panorama Gallery Pilatus Kulm subtly fitted into the Alpine terrain and (2132 m altitude), Swiss Alps Task and develops between existing buildings interpretation: “With one’s feet on the and striking rocky outcrops into an ground and head in the clouds. The artificial topography. The polygonal, task of creating new buildings for the meandering ground plan and the tourist industry on the legendary Pilatus gentle cross-sectional modulation are mountain range is a great challenge but spatial strategies that evoke gentle also a unique opportunity to position transitions between the developed and undeveloped landscape. The polygonal this world-famous location in a new era connecting section choreographs a in terms of construction and as a result series of spectacular perspectives and move on towards new horizons. With breath-taking viewpoints, while also this design proposal we aim to exploit acting as a perceptive amplifier that the existing potential of the natural and stages the reference to the landscape built environment and enhance it with to the fullest extent. The underlying new, contemporary aspects in order crystalline theme of the volumetrics to create a valuable and succinct is also reflected in the structure, building ensemble.” Graber & Steiger & Graber PROJECTS | LUCERNE 101

Sports Arena Allmend Marques Architects, Lucerne / Ivan Bühler Architects, Lucerne

The project sees the Allmend as a corner formations. The external spaces, large open space, which serves the which are defined by these structures, general public for various needs. In flow into each other and further into the the settlement area, it is an important, level of the common room. Conversely, attractive green space. The project the open space of the Allmend is provides for an open development, condensed in the area of the buildings which places the various building and led to the park-like front areas of volumes concentrated in the vastness of the common space so that the open the entrance zone. The references for space can continue to be experienced the proposed architectural language in a coherent manner. The shape of the can be found in classical elements structure has soft shapes without sharp of parks. PROJECTS | LUCERNE 103

Hotel Astoria Herzog & de Meuron

Hello world, welcome to Lucerne: or on a lively family weekend away Switzerland is at its most beautiful here surrounded by mountains and lakes, in the idyllic and urban heart that is the Hotel Astoria provides an equally Central Switzerland. Lake Lucerne with luxurious and unforgettable home away its crystal clear water, the imposing from home. Its boasts three award- mountains, the fresh air, the fascinating winning restaurants and a rooftop architecture, art, culture, and modern garden lounge and bar covering an area savoir-vivre are all charmingly brought of 360 m² with 360-degree panoramic together here to set the rhythm of life. views across the mountain landscape One will find the four-star Hotel Astoria and over the rooftops of Lucerne. right in the middle of it all, a sight to behold full of natural light. A total of 252 rooms, 1200 m² of The design by the prestigious architects conference space, a fully equipped and Pritzker prize winners Herzog & de modern gym, and an in-house car Meuron gives the hotel a breathtaking parking garage make the hotel one of frame. Whether travelling for leisure the most renowned city and conference or on business, a cultural enthusiast hotels in the country. PROJECTS | LUCERNE 105 Heinrich Helfenstein Heinrich

Swiss Museum of Transport Gigon/Guyer

Switzerland’s most visited museum exhibitions, theme parks, and showcases the past, present, and simulations. The collection of over future of mobility with interactive and 3,000 items is presented in more than varied exhibits. In addition to the 20,000m2 of exhibition space. museum, unique attractions found With its exhibition areas of road nowhere else in Switzerland, such as transport, rail, navigation (water), and the film theatre, planetarium, Swiss aviation, the Museum of Transport is Chocolate Adventure, and Media World, are just waiting to be discovered. one of the most extensive museums for mobility in Europe. The large outdoor The Museum of Transport, opened in area complete with lake and playing 1959, is Switzerland’s most popular facilities make it an experience no museum and features numerous matter the weather. PROJECTS | LUCERNE 107

Office Visit Scheitlin Syfrig Architekten Scheitlin Syfrig

Scheitlin Syfrig Architekten is a Lucerne businesswomen, communication architectural practice with around 50 designers, landscape architects, employees. They work on projects from city builders, and visualizers. the first draft to the implementation Creativity and order live together planning to the handover, from the Ice in the office.They think strategically Cream Stand to the skyscraper, as an and prove suggestions with numbers architect or as a general planner. and examples.

The firm builds where tasks are The right solution lies on a common exciting, whether small or large. Each path and needs perseverance. Scheitlin task has its own solution and that Syfrig Achiteckten helps builders is why Scheitlin Syfrig Achiteckten convince the community and get does not stick to a style and run after the neighbors on the project, and trends. Their hallmarks are quality, supports policy-making by helping sustainability, and fulfilled needs. with information events and making projects easy to understand. In order Different perspectives help on the to make the planning status visible to way to the right solution. That is why all participants, they work from the first the team is diversified and includes draft to the final design with models, architects, draftsmen, engineers, visualisations, and materials to touch. PROJECTS | LUCERNE 109

Finish Tower, Rowing Center Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architects

The topographical situation on the The Finish Tower is part of the first Rotsee-Delta is a unique landscape, phase of the Naturarena Rotsee area embedded in between two hill chains development. The Finish Tower and the is a calm, still lake. With an ideal future Rowing Center will form a single character for rowing regattas, the architectural ensemble, perceivable by lake is called the “Lake of Gods“ the mutual materialization, constructive, amongst rowers. and aesthetic themes. The requirements for the new Finish Tower were various and complex. The three story, prefabricated wood Based on its function and the construction is carried by a pillared surrounding landscape the main concrete platform above the water level. aim was to create identity. The statically active concrete platform, By stacking the spacial units, the provides access to the tower from the vertical volume achieves a point of water and the shore. In combination reference on the wide horizontal plane of the Rotsee. Through subtle with the stairway on the rear, but no offsets of the three levels, the volume less prominent facade of the building, seems fragile and delicate, despite it‘s the concrete structure anchors the considerable volume. building close to the lakeshore. PROJECTS | LUCERNE 111

Urban Villas Alp Architektur Lischer Partner AG

Four urban villas welcome visitors incorporating large-scale concrete along Adlingenswilerstrasse in elements leads to the individual houses. Lucerne. Completed in 2012, these By placing the buildings at varying discrete homes cleverly merge angles, a variety of perspectives are into their surroundings - offering achieved. These alternate between exceptional views and maximum impressive panoramas and the exciting comforts. Overlooking Lake Lucerne, proximity of clear-cut architecture and the plot occupies a prime location in a gentle natural beauty. residential area of the city. The pending redevelopment of the neoclassical villa Open spaces have been designed at Adligenswilerstrasse 18 (separate to include various elements – lawns project) made it possible to reclaim bordered by dense shrubbery and an overgrown garden for urban strategically placed groups of bushes. development to provide four dwellings The surrounding walls, executed in and a two-story underground garage, a special concrete mix with a water- .Its south-facing hillside position blasted surface, define the terrain. receives an ideal amount of sunlight Linear design and uniform choice of and offers magnificent views over the materials give the impression of erratic lake to the Alps. Landscaping of the blocks scattered in front of the existing slope was based on the original garden. villas whilst respecting small-scale A network of steps and walkways urban infill development. PROJECTS | LUCERNE 113

Pius Church Franz Füeg

From the outside, Pius Church in cube with no windows as the 28 mm Meggen, Lake Lucerne, looks like [1 1/10’’] thin plates from Pentelicon just another modern steel frame marble are about as translucent construction. What makes Pius Church as painted glass windows in other unique is the fact, that instead of glass, churches. Within each “column,” concrete, or metal, very thin translucent the Pentelicon marble is cut from plates of marble were used to build the the same block for consistency of façade. Daylight shining through the veining, which further emphasizes natural marble structures in warm ochre the “column” reading as opposed to tones creates a mystic ambience. “skin,” particularly from the inside. Füeg echoed Loos, Mies, and Semper, Pius Church was built by architect seeking “an ornament that doesn’t Franz Füeg from Solothurn between need to be added, but can emerge from 1964 and 1966. The building is a simple the very nature of the construction.

Tour guide: Iréne Frey of Roman Catholic Parish, Meggen PROJECTS | LUCERNE 115

Three Terrace Houses Marques Architects

This property is the last buildable plot stairways along the eastern facade. before the start of the agricultural zone. All the houses are characterized It is located on a steep hillside and rises by similar characteristics, such as from the road to the north. In the west it nestling the buildings into the terrain, is bordered by the adjacent residential the south-facing living and sleeping district, in the north by forest, and in areas with large glazings, and the the east and south by meadows. The spacious terraces. The exterior design new structures are staggered buildings, is sensitive to the natural conditions. the lowest being the garage. Thus, all The outdoor staircase to the east is residents of the three single-family adapted in inclination to the naturally homes are granted privacy and an grown terrain. This results in a visually unobstructable panorama of Lake flowing transition to the meadows. Lucerne and the mountains. Access The greening of the terraces can be to the garage is from the street, understood as a “land returned to while access to the houses via open Mother Nature,” PROJECTS | LUCERNE 117

Lake Bath House Seebad Lucerne

The Lake Bath House on the National Within the unique cadre of a seaside Quai looks back on a long past. The resort, dating back to 1900, around seaside resort was originally built in 500 bathers can be accommodated. 1884-1885 by the Lucerne architect Although the Lake Bath House has Heinrich Victor von Segesser. In its been renovated several times and is no more than 100 years of history, the building was rebuilt and adapted longer preserved in its historical form, several times, leading to its current the resort has the character of a time state in 2010. when bathing and swimming in the open air was reserved for only a few The seaside resort of Lucerne is visited free-spirits and health fanatics. by numerous loyal guests, some of whom have been swimming at the Lake The interior of the Bath House is entirely Bath House for many years. Many of made of wood; simple changing rooms them have seasonal subscriptions and are arranged around the two courtyards use the gastronomic offer. The resort is particularly busy on weekends at with swimming pools. Towards the lake noon and in the evening when guests visitors swim in the open water. Trained seek refreshment during breaks or supervision ensures the safety of the after work. bathers throughout the day. Luzern Tourismus Luzern 118 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PROJECTS | LUCERNE 119

Lurcerne City Map Self-Guided Walking Tour

J Lake Bath (A) K

Ice Cream Shop (B) I

Concert Pavillion (C)

D C B A Shopping Center Migros (D)

House on the Reuss (E)

H The Hotel (Jean Nouvel) (F) E

Hotel Astoria (G) L

Gütschbahn Valley Station (H)

Dreilinden School (I) G F

Felsberg Kindergarden / School (J)

Multi-family houses Titlisstrasse (K)

Lucerne Station Hall (L) PROJECTS | LUCERNE 121

Lucerne Culture and Convention Center Ateliers Jean Nouvel (Exterior tour only)

The city of Lucerne sits at the edge a “water garden” in Nouvel’s term, of a lake, wrapping around the north- crossed by pedestrian bridges. The west corner, providing views of not museum is situated above the western only the other half of the city across the building, the conference center. water, but of the mountains beyond. The surrounding landscape, whether in These elements are unified under an summer or winter, creates a rich visual immense sloping copper roof, which backdrop to the historically varied projects, unsupported, twenty meters architecture and dense urban fabric from the main façade, and landmarks of the city. A new building therefore the building from the opposite side of needed to begin from what Nouvel the lake. The musikhalle was retained termed “a principle of inclusion,” in and used while the spine and largest which the driving element was the lake itself. If the building could not broach concert hall were being constructed. the shoreline, the lake would come to the building. Thus the backbone of What Nouvel will have achieved in the building is set away from the lake, Lucerne is not only a technical tour de and the three principal elements (the force. He gives each of the elements two concert halls and the conference of the building its own identity within center) reach out from the spine a whole that is both complete in and towards the lake, divided from each of itself and integrated into its very other at ground level by strips of water, special context. Ateliers Jean Nouvel “I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But ADD-ON the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the ADD-ON city it is condensed, just like the city’s space.”

― Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture PROJECTS | ADD-ON 125

Gotthard Station Alp Architektur Lischer Partner AG

This rest area is characterized by its The permeable facade of the timber unique location in an impressive alpine construction allows a smooth transition landscape with direct access to the between interior and exterior. The natural space at the Reuss out. environment is visible and noticeable in all rooms. Conversely, the inner The building volume is based on the life radiates to the outside and the detached individual buildings in the building is brightly inviting. Principles Urner valley floor. The archetypal of local, historical typologies become silhouettes of functional buildings are contemporarily applied. The light taken up and arranged as four building wooden construction rests on a volumes according to the uses. mineral base. PROJECTS | ADD-ON 127 Roland Halbe Roland

Andermatt Concert Hall Studio Seilern

BESIX and the Andermatt Swiss Andermatt’s new village square will Alps Development is transforming host multiple hotels, residential, and the traditional Swiss Alpine village of chalet facilities, and as part of this Andermatt into one of the world’s finest new development, Studio Seilern year-round destinations; boasting some Architects was asked to provide a of the best alpine and off-piste skiing world-class concert facility to be facilities in Europe and fast becoming located at its heart. one of Switzerland’s largest resorts. The project transforms an existing Andermatt is a mountain village and underground space that was originally municipality in the canton of Uri in intended to be used for conventions Switzerland. At an altitude of 1437 and events for the hotels nearby. meters above sea level, Andermatt Initially, this concrete box with an is located at the centre of the Saint- effective volume of approximately Gotthard Massif and the historical 2,000m3 was primarily intended just for centre cross of north-south and east- conferences and conventions. west traverses of Switzerland. In the early 2000s, after a period of decline, Studio Seilern Architects has proposed Andermatt started growing again as a to lift a large section of the existing roof valid alternative to the famous ski resort to double the effective acoustic volume destinations such as St Moritz and up to 5,340m3, increasing the total Gstaad. This new beginning brought in capacity to able to host 75-piece full the area the need for new facilities to symphony orchestra and a total of 663 remark its role of new attraction pole in audience seats. Swiss tourism. Roland Halbe Roland PROJECTS | ADD-ON 129

Caplutta Sogn Benedetg (Chapel Saint Benedict)* Peter Zumthor

“In 1984 an avalanche destroyed the of this little church, but the actual Baroque chapel at the entrance to Sogn story of how it came to be is different. Benedetg, because a parking lot which The specifications of the competition had been filled in forced a huge slab enabled us to conceive of the chapel as of snow like a ramp up to the chapel. a single space. The idea that its exterior The new site on an old mountain trail form would be defined by a single above the hamlet is protected from interior space fascinated me. This is the avalanches by the forest above. notion of a simple vessel. I wanted to find a soft, maternal form for my vessel. The wooden chapel, mantled with larch-wood shingles, was inaugurated Even as a young boy I had had my in 1988. Three years earlier the problems with the authoritarian, community had granted us the building indoctri ­nating church; so a permit with the comment ‘senza predominating, geometrical form such perschuasiun,’ without conviction. But as a square, a circle, or a rectangle was the prelates of the Disentis Monastery out of the question for me. Our engineer and the village pastor Martin Bearth Jiirg Conzett took my original freehand wanted to build something new and sketch and defined it geometrically as contemporary for future generations. half of a lemniscate.” A leaf, an eye, a fish, a boat, a wedge to divert avalanches-it pleases me to *See Sponsors & hear these inter­pretations of the form Acknowledgements section Kengo Kuma Room. Photo by Global Image Creation. cuisine, and a world-class thermal thermal aworld-class and cuisine, exquisite design, and architecture exceptional senses: to the appeals that to everything 7132The committed is setting. stylish and inspiring an in moment the savour and indulge, to unwind, a place is This relaxation. and tranquility, leisure, era: modern of today’s hectic luxuries true last to the treated are and mainstream ofthe mediocrity the 7132 the at escape Hotel Guests thoroughly distinctive atmosphere. 7132 a the offers which Hotel within retreat acalm is Vals springs, thermal its for Famous setting. mountain ancient an and scenery ofidyllic place –a Alps Grisons Switzerland’s in Vals of village picturesque to the entrance the at 7132The located is Hotel Peter Zumthor, Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma, Thom Mayne of Morphosis 7132 Hotel than 100 years. than more for spa to the visitors attracted has Peter’s spring St. from Celsius 30° at emerges that water mineralized highly The unique. Vals make what are springs thermal legendary The people. to 40 up for space providing created, have been appeal, four exclusive meeting rooms the hotel’sunderscore all-year-round added. To been also has fireplace open an with library A spacious decks. sun- and pavilion the including grounds, hotel entire the and bar the have as designed, re- completely have been area lobby and reception 2017. the rooms, to new addition In July in completed was renovations recent most the of phase final The spa. PROJECTS PROJECTS | ADD-ON 131 Designed by Morphosis. Photo by Global Image Creation. PROJECTS | ADD-ON 133

Therme Vals* Peter Zumthor

“Stone and water: a love affair. At some thermal bath. There it is collected and point in the design process it was channeled into the different pools no longer difficult to grasp these of the spa, where it is heated up to two primary materials as mutually one-hundred-and-eight degrees, invigorating energies, and to trust that cooled down with the addition of with this pair of elements we could fresh water to fifty-seven degrees, create and express almost everything or converted to steam for the steam that our thermal spa in the mountains bath. Users enjoy the water not only at seemed to require. various temperatures but in different spaces and conditions: in bright light, The stones come from the local quarry darkness, and twilight, or standing in in Vals, located a few hundred meters shadow and looking into the brightness further back in the valley. As the stone of a colorful, illuminated landscape. is pliable and contains quartz, we Sunlight trickles in through narrow sliced it into long thin slabs and stacked slits or through the gaps we left open them up into large monolithic blocks. between the stone slabs of the ceiling. An early draft shows great blocks of Daylight and landscape images flood stone in the water as if they were in a the giant windows, giving shape and flooded quarry. texture to the surfaces of stone and water in the changing light of the days Stone is everywhere in Vais, and and seasons.” the presence of water is powerful. Eighty-four­degree water flows out of *See Sponsors & the hillside directly behind the new Acknowledgements section Global Image Creation Image Global Zeitgenössische Architektur Contemporary Architecture

134 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN StadtplanCONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND Chur | Chur City Map PROJECTS | ADD-ON 135

Chur City Map Walking Tour by Daniel A. Walser

1. Protective buildings for Roman excavation

2. Home for the elderly Cadonau

3. Graubünden Museum of Fine Art

4. Graubünden cantonal bank

5. AuditoriumGKB

6. Würth International AG

7. School building Halde

8. University of Applied Sciences HTW

9. School building Plessur

10. Area plan Böschengut

11. Poststrasse

12. Chur train station

13. Otto & Alex residential/ business buildings

14. Postbus station

15. Town hall and media building Untertor

16. Entrance Grosser Rat

17. New staircase cantonal school

18. Heiligkreuz Church

19. Fontanapark

20. Entrance city parking

1. Schutzbauten röm. Ausgrabungen 8. Hochschule für Technik & Wirt- 15. Stadt- und Medienhaus Untertor | Protective buildings for Roman schaft HTW | University of Applied | Town hall and media building excavation Sciences HTW Untertor 2. Seniorenzentrum Cadonau | Home 9. Kantonsschule Plessur | School 16. Eingang Grosser Rat | Entrance for the elderly Cadonau building Plessur Grosser Rat 3. Bündner Kunstmuseum | Grau- 10. Quartierplan Böschengut | Area 17. Neuer Aufgang Kantonsschule | bünden Museum of Fine Art plan Böschengut New staircase cantonal school 4. Graubündner Kantonalbank | 11. Poststrasse 18. Heiligkreuzkirche | Heiligkreuz Graubünden cantonal bank 12. Bahnhof Chur | Chur train sta- Church 5. GKB Auditorium | Auditorium tion 19. Fontanapark GKB 13. Wohn-/Geschäftshaus Otto & 20. Eingang Cityparkhaus | Entrance 6. Würth International AG Alex | Otto & Alex residential/ busi- city parking 7. Kantonsschule Halde | School ness buildings building Halde 14. Postautostation | Postbus station

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Shelter for Roman Archaeological Ruins* Peter Zumthor

“Not much is known about Chur in to air. At night, passersby can switch Roman times, and there is hardly lights on the inside, making the shells anything left to see. This explains the look like lanterns in the cityscape. desire to leave exposed the relatively modest masonry remains of two Roman On entering the structures, you commercial structures and make them become aware of the noises of the accessible to the public. city penetrating the open louvered structure, while the view to the outside Our project is a small museum. To visit is blocked off except for the two display the building, which has no staff, windows over the Roman doors, which you must arrange to pick up the key in now seem like windows on the city. town against a deposit. However, two When you stand between the almost display windows above the original 1800-year-old walls, no direct daylight Roman entry doors also afford a view illuminates their wooden “fins,” also into the building from outside. The revealing the Roman remains of a wooden protective sheathing exactly charred wooden floor, found objects, follows the excavated foundation walls and a remounted fragment of a wall of the Roman structure, making it easier painting depicting Mercury, the god to envision the size and shape of the of commerce and thieves: you are lost buildings. It creates a volumetric steeped in history and you hear the presence in the urban space, and in city of the present.” the interior one can sense the long-lost rooms. For the sake of conservation, *See Sponsors & the protective shells are permeable Acknowledgements section PROJECTS | ADD-ON 139

Kunstmuseum Extension Estudio Barozzi Veiga

The project absorbs and transforms as a simple and compact volume that the Palladian order and the Orientalist becomes perfectly integrated into its style, the main compositional features immediate surroundings. The clarity of the Villa Planta, through a central with which it states its independence and symmetric composition scheme with respect to the adjacent buildings which gives the extension a clear formal autonomy as well as allowing also reinforces the importance given to the proposal to preserve the identity of the garden that appears in the newly the villa itself. The new addition to the extended area and confers a sober Bündner Kunstmuseum is conceived presence to the building. PROJECTS | ADD-ON 141 Photo by Loic Bernasconi

Atelier Zumthor Peter Zumthor

Human in scale, modest in gesture, There are three buildings – two Atelier comfortable whilst side-stepping ‘cosy’, buildings (one of 1986, one of 2016), the Atelier is the summit of the Zumthor and the Zumthor private house (2005). aesthetic. Underscoring this apparent It’s charming to think that, despite his simplicity, though, is an intensely massive success (he won the Pritzker rational sophistication. in 2009), one of the world’s finest architects has stayed so true (and Inside the front door, there is a close) to his roots. small reception area with a seat to take off ones boots – a shoe brush What could be perceived as cold, and shoehorn hung on the wall are reductive timber or cement boxes testimony to total attention to detail. are in fact volumes made to convey a Behind this, the kitchen addresses sense of life, and the lived. At moments, the back yard and it’s a wonderfully tired yet happy looking young staff honest space – open wooden shelves would pop out of one box and into the (a reminder of the fact that Zumthor other as they moved between studio started out as a cabinet maker) mean work and meetings, or other functions all accoutrement are plainly visible – around the practice. clearly, effacing traces of the everyday is not what the Atelier is about. – Nick Tobias “The Swiss are generally not very open when it comes to changing their city or landscape. Changes should be slow or imperceptible.” EVENTS – Jacques Herzog EVENTS 1442019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND EVENTS 145

Laufen Ceramics Factory Tour and Presentation Save! Project by EOOS Design in development with Laufen

Laufen is particularly esteemed in the longer-term collaborations with design world for its collaborations the company. with renowned industrial designers and architects towards the creation of Laufen routinely conducts worldwide bathroom pieces. Here the process can research surveys to maintain a forward- differ in its particularities: sometimes looking perspective, asking architects, designers are approached to develop interior designers, and retailers to new product lines, and other times identify current trends in bathroom individuals submit ideas to Laufen culture, and report on the needs and in response to a product briefing, in desires expressed by consumers. which case the selection of a designer While the research doesn’t exclude and piece becomes part of the development process. physical attributes such as color or silhouette, Laufen is increasingly finding Anytime the company works with a new the focus on what marketing and collaborator, (s)he is invited to spend products director Marc Viardot terms time in the factory learning a bit more ‘wellness 2.0,’ the seamless integration about the methods and particularities of functionality and aesthetic as they of working with ceramic; oftentimes affect an individual’s experience, within these designers move on to engage in the greater context of a home. EVENTS 147

Mt. Pilatus Infrastructure “Made in Switzerland,” Daniel Wiener, President, ecos and GIB Point Cloud Modeling Technology, Advances in Landscape Analysis and Design, Matthias Vollmer / Johannes Rebsamen, ETH Zürich Dept. of Landscape Architecture Building in the Alpine Landscape, Mt. Pilatus Master Plan, Niklaus Graber, Architect

A multi-peaked massif, Mt. Pilatus scales the way from Alpnachstad towers over Lucerne and Central to Pilatus Kulm, passing alpine Switzerland. Though Queen Victoria meadows and striking rock formations. enlisted a mule to help her ascend The summit of Mt. Pilatus is at a the mountain in 1868, visitors now dizzying 6,981 feet (2,128 meters) venture up by cable car or cogwheel above sea level. train, which—with a gradient of up to 48 percent—is said to be one of the After the complete renovation of the world’s steepest. Crisscrossed by hotel and gastronomy infrastructure hiking trails and sled runs, Mt. Pilatus on the mountain in 2009 and 2011, the features a kid-friendly adventure park Pilatus-Bahnen AG invested another and a suspension rope park. From the 18 million Swiss francs in this new top, one can see as far as Italy on a aerial cableway. The centerpiece is two clear day. modern cabins which give passengers the sensation of flying. This stems from Visit Mt. Pilatus and take a train ride on a roomy interior, a cockpit-like design the world’s steepest cogwheel railway and large windows. Construction work on this self-guided tour from Lucerne. lasted a year and was finished in April Ride on the new aerial cableway, the 2015. Since then, the Dragon Ride flies Dragon Ride, as well as a panoramic visitors from Fräkmüntegg directly onto gondola ride. Pilatus Kulm. The cabin’s panoramic windows facilitate an unrivaled view of Commissioned in 1889, the funicular the mountains. 148 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND EVENTS 149

Closing Gala Dinner on Lake Lucerne Boat MS Diamant 50 years of Design Leadership recognition Recap of the Year Transfer of the Medallion

Switzerland’s first carbon neutral everyone. With elegant styling, ship, the “MS Diamant”, has been in top-notch event infrastructure and operation on Lake Lucerne since 2017. spacious lounges, it is the ideal venue Built by the Shiptec AG shipyard, the for leisure or business. Five different ferry is powered by two hybrid engines decks offer exciting attractions, such in conjunction with two ZF 3000 as the underwater Nautilus Cabin with V transmissions. submarine windows, the exclusive Compass Lounge on the lofty sun deck, The ultra-modern passenger ship or the luminous glass dome inside. was ceremoniously launched in May 2017. In terms of quality and comfort, this unique vessel represents a major There is so much to explore, the cruise milestone in the history of Swiss guarantees endless entertainment. navigation. Technical innovations The vessel is as sustainable as it is and ingenious design features create beautiful, and is the first climate neutral world class facilities that will delight lake cruiser in Switzerland. 150 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE EVENTS 151

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1970 Ralph P. Youngran, FAIA 1995 Steven M. Goldberg, FAIA

1971 Henry N. Cobb, FAIA 1996 Barton Phelps, FAIA

1972 Ulrich Franzen, FAIA 1997 Joseph Valerio, FAIA 50 YEARS 1973 Hugh Newell Jacobsen, FAIA 1998 Raymond L. Gindroz, AIA 1974 Harry C. Wolf, FAIA 1999 Frances Halsband, FAIA of Committee 1975 James Ingo Freed, FAIA 2000 Henry “Dusty” Reeder, FAIA on Design Leadership 1976 Stanley Tigerman, FAIA 2001 Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA 1977 George E. Hartman, FAIA 2002 Robert Frasca, FAIA This year we celebrate 50 years of COD 1978 William Newton Morgan, FAIA 2003 Kent L. Hubbell Leadership. We recognized the past 1979 Thomas R. Vreeland, FAIA 2004 Windom Kimsey, FAIA chairs of COD at The Exploratorium in 1980 Roger H. Clark, FAIA 2005 Ronnette Riley, FAIA San Francisco at the Domestic Conference. 1981 Thomas S. Marvel, FAIA 2006 David Brems, FAIA

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1985 John L. Field, FAIA 2010 Thomas Howorth, FAIA

1986 Mark Simon, FAIA 2011 Anne Schopf, FAIA

1987 B. Mack Scogin, Jr., AIA 2012 Mike Mense, FAIA

1988 Glenn Garrison, AIA 2013 Marlene Imirzian, FAIA

1989 Boone Powell, FAIA 2014 Steven Alspaugh, AIA

1990 Harold Roth, FAIA 2015 Jim Childress, FAIA

1991 John M. Syvertsen, AIA 2016 Phillip Laird, AIA

1992 Richard S. Bundy, FAIA 2017 James C. Lord, II, AIA

1993 Margaret I. McCurry, FAIA 2018 George H. Miller, FAIA “To me, buildings can have a beautiful silence that I associate with attributes such as composure, self-evidence, durability, presence, and integrity, and with warmth and sensuousness as well; a building that is being itself, being a building, not representing anything, just being.

The sense that I try to instill into materials is beyond all rules of composition, and their tangibility, smell, and acoustic qualities are merely elements of the language we are obliged to use. Sense emerges when I succeed in bringing out the specific meanings of certain materials in my buildings, meanings that can only be perceived in PEOPLE just this way in this one building. When I concentrate on a specific site or place for PEOPLE which I am going to design a building, when I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history, and its sensuous qualities, images of other places start to invade this process of precise observation: images of places I know and that once impressed me, images of ordinary or special places places that I carry with me as inner visions of specific moods and qualities; images of architectural situations, which emanate from the world of art, or films, theater or literature.”

– Peter Zumthor, Thinking Architecture 154 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | PLANNING COMMITTEE 155

Planning Committee

Tiffany Melançon, SIA Stefan Bieri David Greenbaum, Janki Bhatia, Int’l Assoc. AIA Schärli Architects, FAIA, LEED AP AIA, LEED AP Melançon & Co. Vice President AIA Continental Europe SmithGroup Asscociate, SmithGroup Conference Planning Co-Chair Conference Planning Co-Chair 2019 COD Chair Conference Team Research [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Tiffany Melançon is a practicing Stefan leads project managers and David Greenbaum has set new Janki Bhatia is an Architect and architect based in Basel, Switzerland. architects in the department of standards in museum design Associate at SmithGroup in She was educated in the United executive planning at the full service through the creation of memorable Washington, DC. At SmithGroup she States, beginning her career in New practice of Schärli Architects in experiences for the visitor. His work has worked on landmark cultural York City, then moved to Europe in Lucerne. He is most interested in the has been recognized through award facilities including Museum of the Bible 2000 to work for the Swiss architects digital transformation and the chances and publication for clarity of vision, and Capital Jewish Museum. She Herzog & de Meuron. She later joined it offers to the architectural profession, innovation in thought, and excellence has extensive experience in cultural, Flubacher - Nyfeler + Partner where including the construction industry. in design. commerical, federal, and master she was associate partner before planning projects. founding Melançon & Co. in 2013. Born in Zurich he spent parts of his In a 35-year career that includes She is active in roles that connect US childhood in New Jersey when his multiple projects of national Prior to working at SmithGroup, and European design interests, most family moved to the US as expats. He significance for the Smithsonian Janki worked at AECOM where recently as Co-Chair of the AIA COD studied architecture at Lucerne School Institution, The National Gallery of she collaborated on design and International Conference in Switzerland of Engineering and Architecture and Art, the Architect of the Capitol, and construction of the Social Security and as member of the Tulane School is passionate about great design. In other sites in the US and overseas, Administration Office Campus in of Architecture Dean’s Advisory his early career he joined the firm of Greenbaum has developed an Baltimore, Maryland and the US Council. She was 2017 President of AIA Wheeler Kearns Architects in Chicago international practice in museum Embassy Compound in Harare, Continental Europe and has curated for a while and still feels very attached design and comparable visitor Zimbabwe. She was lead designer numerous symposia and educational to the Windy City. attractions, with a particular interest for master planning and design of a programs for architects and university in the development of cultural districts. New Office Annex for the US Embassy students. Tiffany is passionate about After returning to Europe Stefan joined Greenbaum has won over 100 national compound in Nairobi, Kenya. Architecture’s ability to harmonize the AIA and became an active member and regional awards. His projects Janki holds a Master’s degree in abstract and aesthetic ideas with the of the AIA Continental Europe Chapter, have been published in more than 250 Architecture from Virginia Tech concrete situations of everyday life. serving as this years Vice-President. articles, underscoring the importance University (USA) and a Bachelor’s of his work in the architectural and degree in Interior Architecture from museum communities and the larger Center for Environment, Planning and public realm. Technology (India). 156 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | PLANNING COMMITTEE 157

Dan Hogman, John Myefski, AIA Brian Mandrier Ann Thompson AIA, NCARB, LEED AP Myefski Architects Hauck & Associates, Inc COD Communications Chair COD Continuing Education COD Sponsorship Chair Destination Management Planner [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Dan has created a comprehensive In a career spanning more than 30 Brian Mandrier is Senior Vice President Ann Thompson is the Head of Adult design portfolio across a diverse range years, John Myefski worked hard to of Hauck & Associates, Inc. and has Services at the Essex Library of projects - high rise commercial gain the knowledge and experience been in the association and destination Association in Connecticut where she and residential, mixed-use, housing, necessary to lead an award-winning management industry since 2001. He has worked since 1999. Her blog, The hospitality, institutional and master architectural firm in Chicago. Born is also the Managing Director of the Short List, received the Connecticut planning. Prior to forming his own and raised in northern Michigan, Hauck & Associates Bay Area office Library Association’s Publicity Award design studio, Dan spent over 15 years John has an appreciation for simple, located in Healdsburg, California. in 2008. holding leadership positions with Scandinavian style architecture Pyatok Architects, Bumgardner and featuring clean lines and natural He has managed conferences in the She first attended a COD Conference Heller Manus of San Francisco. His materials. While his style has developed museum and oncology sector with a in Houston, Texas in 2010 where she design solutions are human/pedestrian- and grown over time, John remains focus on planning, construction and volunteered to maintain COD’s website. focused, contextually appropriate and inspired by this elegant yet functional architecture. He is the co-creator and Since then, her efforts have included aesthetically uncompromising. architectural aesthetic. Managing Director of the International launching and maintaining COD’s social Museum Construction Congress (IMCC) media feeds and a Wordpress blog, As an active member of the American John earned both his Bachelor and and International Oncology Leadership organizing conference travel Institute of Architects, Dan holds Master’s Degree in Architecture from Conference (IOLC) which are held scholarships, and building digital the 2019 Chair of the Mentorship the Taubman College of Architecture annually in Europe and Asia. conference guidebooks. She also lent Committee. Dan serves as faculty with and Urban Planning at the University a helpful hand in organizing COD’s the Academy of Art San Francisco, of Michigan. Later on, John received a He is a graduate of Indiana University conferences in Norway and Providence teaching a drawing studio, while Fulbright Fellowship and continued his of Pennsylvania and a recent awardee and the Awards Reception in Atlanta. pursuing graduate research at Harvard studies at the Royal Danish Academy of of the “Forty under 40” ones to watch in in Museums (ALM). Previously, Dan Fine Arts – School of Architecture. John association management by USAE. has earned a Master of Architecture subsequently received the Booth (M.Arch) degree with the AAU, San Traveling Fellowship for independent Brian enjoys exploring Sonoma wine Francisco, and holds undergraduate study of community based architecture country and recently acquired a wine degrees in Management (BA), Graphic in Sweden, Finland and Norway. sommelier certification. He is an avid Arts, and Informatics (BS). Most recently, John attended the traveler and is married with a daughter. Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. 158 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 159

Speakers & Moderators

Tom Rossiter, FAIA Michael Franklin Ross, FAIA Peter Zumthor, Hon. FAIA Nora Fehlbaum Tom Rossity Photography MFR Consulting Architects Peter Zumthor & Partner Vitra COD Photographer COD Journalist Chief Executive Officer [email protected] [email protected]

As a photographer, a registered A passionate advocate of design Zumthor founded his own firm in Nora Fehlbaum is CEO of the Swiss architect and a Fellow of the American excellence, Ross was elevated to 1979. His practice grew quickly as he furniture manufacturing company Institute of Architects, Tom Rossiter’s the American Institute of Architects’ accepted more international projects. Vitra and a member of the Board of images reflect his experience as a College of Fellows in 2006. As an Directors. Following in the footsteps maker and a lover of history, nature, educator, he has been a mentor Zumthor has taught at Southern of her father Raymond and uncle Rolf culture and architecture. Through his impacting the lives of young students. California Institute of Architecture in Los Fehlbaum, she leads the family-owned commissioned work, Rossiter tells As a prolific writer, he is an interpreter Angeles (1988), the Technical University company in the third generation. powerful architectural stories through of design, having published more than of Munich (1989), Tulane University Nora Fehlbaum came to Vitra in 2010 the eyes of the architects for awards, 80 articles. As a practitioner, he has (1992), and the Harvard Graduate after working for various international publication, and presentations. His served as project principal on more School of Design (1999). Since 1996, corporations. She was initially fine art work aims to synthesize his than $2 billion of built work and has he is professor at the Accademia di responsible for the Vitra Campus and experience into offerings for the viewers won more than 30 national, regional Architettura di Mendrisio. special projects before taking the helm and collectors. and local AIA design awards. in 2016 as CEO. Under her leadership, His best known projects are the Vitra has asserted its position with such While at HGA, Ross helped launch the Kunsthaus Bregenz (1997), a projects as the ‘WORK’ presentation Los Angeles office, serving as principal shimmering glass and concrete at Orgatec in 2016 and 2018, and the on healthcare, higher education and cube that overlooks Lake Constance ‘Typecasting’ exhibition during Milan community projects. (Bodensee) in Austria; the cave-like Design Week in 2018. Nora Fehlbaum thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland has been instrumental in furthering Ross worked closely with clients, (1999); the Swiss Pavilion for Expo 2000 developments like the expansion of the including Lucile Packard Children’s in Hannover, an all-timber structure Vitra Accessories Collection and the Hospital at Stanford University, Kaiser intended to be recycled after the event; global launch of Vitra’s online shops. Permanente, UC Riverside, eles, CSU the Kolumba Diocesan Museum (2007), Northridge, Chaffey College e California in Cologne; and the Bruder Klaus Field African American Museum. Chapel, on a farm near Wachendorf. 160 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 161

Sacha Menz Andreas Ruby Marco Serra, SIA Robert Bracken ETH Zurich Swiss Architecture Museum Global Novartis Chief Architect Roche Professor of Architecture Director Global Expert in Strategic Master Planning

Sacha Menz has been Full Professor for Andreas Ruby is Director of the Marco Serra, Italian, Born in Zürich in Robert Bracken is currently the Global Architecture and Building Process at Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM) in 1970, Studied Architecture at the ETHZ, Expert in Strategic Master Planning the ETH-Zurich since October 2004. Basel, Switzerland. The S AM is the graduating as Dipl. Arch. ETHZ in 1996 for Roche Diagnostics, Capital leading institution in the mediation with Prof. Hans Kollhoff. Worked in the Investment and Real Estate group. In 1997 he founded SAM Architects of contemporary architecture in office of Prof. Adrian Meyer in Baden In this role he leads site design, and Partners where he is still actively Switzerland. It invigorates and shapes from 1996 - 1999 and for Diener & planning and asset strategy initiatives engaged in architectural competitions Switzerland’s architectural discourse Diener Architects in Basel from 1999 across the division. through the world. He served as Dean with its programme, and seeks to - 2002. Works since 2003 at Novartis of the Department of Architecture bridge the gap between professional and is responsible for the Novartis Prior to joining Roche Robert was a and over ten years he founded and discourse and the wider public. Campus Masterplanning. From 2002 - senior designer at Skidmore Owings lead the Institute of Technology in 2005 responsible Design Architect for and Merrill and instructor in advanced Architecture (ITA) where he designed Andreas Ruby is also Principal of the Main Gate and the Car Park project design studios at Illinois Institute of and coordinated the building process Textbild in Berlin and a Visiting of the Novartis Campus in Basel. Technology in Chicago. of the Arch_Tec_Lab, the institutes new Professor for Architectural Theory & From 2006 - 2016 responsible Design home. His publications include Three Design at the University of Kassel, Architect for the conversion project of Robert holds Master degrees in Books on the Building Process, VDF Germany. He is a critic and curator in the Abadia Retuerta into a Hotel with Architecture and Historic Preservation Editors and Public Space Evolution the fields of architecture, design and Spa in Valladolid, Spain. Since 2014 he from Tulane University, and a Master in in High-Density Living in Singapore. the visual arts. He founded Textbild, an is the Global Novartis Chief Architect. Urban Design from Harvard University. Invitations to international conferences agency of architectural communication, He is a licensed member of the and architectural juries follow. with Ilka Ruby in 2001. Predominantly American Institute of Certified Planners. committed to contemporary Recently he joined the Reviewing Board architecture and design, the agency for Clusters of Excellence of the DFG writes essays, designs books, and (German Research Foundation) and the organizes symposia for a wide array of Strategy Commission of ETH-Zurich institutional and cultural clients. and is member of the Strategic Board of ETH-Zurich. 162 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 163

Mònica Ors Romagosa Esther Zumsteg Simon Demeuse Donald Mak Roche Diagnostics Herzog & de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Herzog & de Meuron Corporate Architect Senior Partner Partner Associate

Mònica was born in Barcelona and Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership Herzog & de Meuron is a partnership graduated in 1999 from the ETSAB, led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de led by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de after completing her master thesis Meuron with Senior Partners Christine Meuron with Senior Partners Christine Meuron with Senior Partners Christine with Prof. Soldevila and Prof. Florian Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler, Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler, Binswanger, Ascan Mergenthaler, Beigel (North London University). She Stefan Marbach, Esther Zumsteg, and Stefan Marbach, Esther Zumsteg, and Stefan Marbach, Esther Zumsteg, and started practicing in urban design for Jason Frantzen. Established in Basel Jason Frantzen. Established in Basel Jason Frantzen. Established in Basel the Barcelona Metropolitan Council in 1978, Herzog & de Meuron is an in 1978, Herzog & de Meuron is an in 1978, Herzog & de Meuron is an and later in the U.K. at Stanton Williams international team of 450 collaborators international team of 450 collaborators international team of 450 collaborators on the Tower of London environment working on projects across Europe, working on projects across Europe, working on projects across Europe, scheme. the Americas and Asia, ranging from the Americas and Asia, ranging from the Americas and Asia, ranging from the small scale of a private home the small scale of a private home the small scale of a private home Between 2004-2016 she worked for to the large scale of urban design. to the large scale of urban design. to the large scale of urban design. Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Madrid Projects realized in the US include Projects realized in the US include Projects realized in the US include and Tenerife, where she completed the Dominus Winery, de Young Museum, Dominus Winery, de Young Museum, Dominus Winery, de Young Museum, TEA Museum and the Plaza España. As the expansion of Walker Art Center, the expansion of Walker Art Center, the expansion of Walker Art Center, associate Mònica was involved in Pérez Art Museum Miami, Parrish Pérez Art Museum Miami, Parrish Pérez Art Museum Miami, Parrish major international projects leading Art Museum, and 56 Leonard Street. Art Museum, and 56 Leonard Street. Art Museum, and 56 Leonard Street. the facade design for projects such as Herzog & de Meuron received the Herzog & de Meuron received the Herzog & de Meuron received the the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2001, Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2001, Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2001, BBVA campus in Madrid, the São Paulo the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the the RIBA Royal Gold Medal and the Dance school, the Skolkovo MIT Praemium Imperiale in 2007, and the Praemium Imperiale in 2007, and the Praemium Imperiale in 2007, and the University, the M+ Museum in Hong Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize for Kong and the new Children’s Hospital 1111 Lincoln Road in 2014. 1111 Lincoln Road in 2014. 1111 Lincoln Road in 2014. in Zurich. 164 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 165

Linda Cassens Stoian Ilker Hussein Dominique Heintz Sébastian Vivas S AM Tours Laufen Bathrooms AG Audemars Piguet Audemars Piguet Lucerne School of Commercial Director Chief of Staff Heritage & Museum Director Engineering and Architecture

Linda Cassens Stoian was born in Ilker loves working with people, Heintz has worked in 3 industries on Sébastian Vivas was born in Neuchâtel, USA and lives and works in Basel (CH). especially on projects providing 4 continents and held positions in 7 Switzerland. After entering the watch- She studied Performance Art (1990- opportunity for increased involvement different fields. making world as a documentalist at 1994) at the New York University. Her with creative designers and clients, the Musée International d’Horlogerie Research projects include Perform and to be a part of a team that inspires In the early 90s, Heintz received his first in La Chaux-de-Fonds, he took on the Space, Situated Body, at the FHNW and pushes the boundaries of interior Master’s Degree in Computer Science, position of scientist counsellor for a - Hochschule Gestaltung und Kunst design. A strong and active supporter as well as an Associate Degree in time based project called Dimensions, Basel and her research focus is a of the AIA Continental Europe Chapter Culture & Communication in France, developed for the Swiss National model for the analysis of artistic space since 2011, Ilker was awarded the before taking his first flight ever from Exhibition in 2000. productions. She teaches Art in Public Certificate Of Honorary Membership Paris to Sydney, Australia to complete Spheres, Master of Arts in Fine Arts, by the Chapter in 2016. an MBA. In 2001, he obtained a Masters in at the Hochschule Luzern-Design & Modern History at the University of Kunst (CH). The commitment and passion for His first professional experience took Neuchâtel and became assistant bathroom solutions, particularly in place in Tunisia, North Africa, where he researcher. He went on to publish a the hotel and premium residential was appointed by Bouygues, a French study on the history of the “Journal sectors, follow through Ilker Hussein’s Construction and Telecommunication Suisse d’Horlogerie”, and received professional history like a red string, conglomerate,Seba ass Managementtian Viva sthe, Fritz Kunz prize, a prestigious through a career in the bathroom Controller on a State University distinction awarded to the best study industry spanning over 30 years. HeritaConstructionge & site.Mu seum Donir thee historycto of rthe canton of Neuchâtel. Today Ilker is Commercial Director of In 1997, Heintz followed his wife- Laufen Bathrooms AG and is leading oto-bef Au (a professionaldem flutea rplayer)s P iguSinceet March 2012, he has been the the Global Projects Team of the Swiss to Switzerland, where he became Museum and Patrimony Director of bathroom specialist – one of the Financial Analyst at Philip Morris Audemars Piguet. most prestigious global brands in the Europe and focused on strategic bathroom industry. planning and motorsport marketing. Sébastian Vivas was born in 1973, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. After entering the watchmaking world as a documentalist at the Musée International d’Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds, he took on the position of scientist counsellor for a time based project called Dimensions, developed for the Swiss National Exhibition in 2000.

In 2001, he obtained a Masters in Modern History at the University of Neuchâtel and became assistant researcher. He went on to publish a study on the history of the “Journal Suisse d’Horlogerie”, and received the Fritz Kunz prize, a prestigious distinction awarded to the best study on the history of the canton of Neuchâtel.

Between 2001 and 2012, Sébastian Vivas was then Heritage Manager at Jaeger-LeCoultre, where he participated in the creation of an in house museum in 2007 called Heritage Gallery.

Since March 2012, he is the Museum and Patrimony Director of Audemars Piguet. CV Matthew Oravec | Architect

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Matt Oravec Bryan Ford, Ph.D Matias Echanove Kenneth Ross Biography MattBIG Oravec joined BIG in 2015EPFL as an Architect and is currently workingurbz on the Audemars PiguetRichter Dahl Rocha & Associés Architects Architect Associate Professor Co-Founder Museum in Le Brassus. Matt has extensive experience with commercial, cultural, residential,

andMatt Oravec hospitality joined BIG in projects 2015 as in Prof.the Bryan Americas, Ford leads the Europe, and Asia. Prior Matiasto joining Echanove BIG, co-founded Matt urbz was theKenneth Ross was born in Buenos an Architect and is currently working Decentralized/Distributed Systems together with anthropologist Rahul Aires in 1964 and earned his degree in Architecton the Audemars at Piguet Herzog Museum & de Meuron(DEDIS) research on CCDC, laboratory a at mixed-use/hotel the developmentSrivastava and urban in designer Washington Geeta architecture from the Universidad de in Le Brassus. Matt has extensive Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Mehta in Mumbai, 2009. urbz is an Buenos Aires in 1989. The following DC.experience He alsowith commercial, was a cultural,member Lausanne of the (EPFL). project Ford focuses team broadly on the Jade Signatureexperimental condominium action and research tower inyear, he joined Jacques Richter and residential, and hospitality projects on building secure decentralized collective specialized in participatory Ignacio Dahl Rocha in the office of Sunnyin the Americas, Isles, Europe, Florida, and Asia. where systems, he assisted including privacy in bringing and the tower to theplanning construction and design. urbz worksphase. PriorRichter et Gut bureau d’architectes Prior to joining BIG, Matt was the anonymous communication, systems with citizens, organizations and in Lausanne, and three years later, toArchitect Herzog, at Herzog Matt & de Meuron was on a membersecurity, ofand theblockchain lead technology. design team at Arquitectonicamunicipalities in Miami, Mumbai, Geneva, working the newly formed studio of Richter CCDC, a mixed-use/hotel development Since earning his Ph.D. at MIT, Ford Bogota, Sao Paulo and Seoul. urbz ’s et Dahl Rocha Bureau d’architectes. in Washington DC. He also was a has held faculty positions at Yale work was exhibited at MoMA in New He became a partner of the office onmember numerous of the project internationalteam on the University projects. and EPFL, He where holds his work a Bachelor of ArchitectureYork, MAXXI indegree Rome, MAK from in Vienna, the in 1999. Among numerous major Jade Signature condominium tower has received awards including the Sao Paulo Cultural Center, and Bhau projects developed by the design Universityin Sunny Isles, Florida, of Miami. where he Jay Lepreau Best Paper Award and Daji Lad City Museum in Mumbai. team Kenneth Ross leads are the assisted in bringing the tower to the the NSF CAREER award, and the Matias Echanove studied government renovation and transformation of the construction phase. Prior to Herzog, AXA Research Chair. He is known for and economics at the London School of Nestlé Headquarters building, the Matt was a member of the lead design numerous inventions including parsing Economics, urban planning at Columbia Nestlé WellNes Centre, the Nestlé Languages Englishteam at Arquitectonica | Czech Miami, | Slovak working expression grammars, delegative University, and urban information Product Technology Centre Singen, on numerous international projects. He or liquid democracy, and scalable systems at the University of Tokyo. various buildings on the campus of the holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree sharded blockchains. He has served International Institute for Management from the University of Miami. on the DARPA Information Science Development, and the EPFL Quartier Education Bachelor of Architecture | Universityand Technology (ISAT)of Miami study group, | USA | 2011 Nord, SwissTech Convention Centre the Swiss FinTech Innovations (SFTI) and Student Housing complex. advisory board, and as advisor to many companies. Licenses State of New York | Registered Architect | 2016 State of Florida | Registered Architect | 2013 NCARB Certification | 2014 LEED Green Associate | 2010

Selected Experience Bjarke Ingels Group | Since 2015 | NYC Maison Des Fondateurs Audemars Piguet | 25,500SF museum | In Design | Le Brassus, CH | Senior Designer

Herzog & de Meuron | 2013-2015 | USA CCDC Hotel | hotel and mixed-use | In Construction | Washington DC, US | Architect Jade Signature | residential tower | In Construction | Sunny Isles, US | Architect

Arquitectonica | 2011-2013 | USA Tour B3A | mixed-use tower | 1.1mil SF | Idea | Paris, FR | Architect Genting RWMI | 10mil SF | In Construction | Miami, US | Designer

K/R Architect | 2012 | USA Museum of Contemporary Architecture | exhibition design | Hangzhou, CN | Designer

Awards Notre Dame Shelters for All | Popular Vote Prize Winner | 2012 Green Builders of Florida | LEED Highrise Competition, Second Place | 2006 168 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 169

Etienne Marclay Marc Pointet Alberto Veiga Carlos Viladoms EPFL Mobimo Estudio Barozzi Veiga Fruehauf, Henry & Vice President for Human Director Viladoms Architectes Resources and Operations Partner

The Vice-Presidency is in charge of Marc Pointet has been Director of Alberto Veiga, born in 1973, grew up in Founded in 2008 by Claudius Fruehauf, a series of support functions and Mobimo Suisse Romande since 2013 Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Guillaume Henry and Carlos Viladoms, management tasks including: human and a member of Mobimo’s General studied architecture at the Escuela FHV is a structure working on various resources & talent management, real Management since 2015. Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de projects at different scales, ranging estate & infrastructure management, Navarra. Between 2007 and 2010 he from the transformation of small objects security, occupational health & After a Master’s degree in architecture has been Professor at the International to the construction of large private or prevention, purchasing & procurement, in Zurich and an MBA in Saint Gall, University of Catalonia in Barcelona and public works. sustainable development & Marc Pointet first worked for a large in 2014 Visiting Professor at the Istituto environmental management, general contractor, then joined the Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. FHV develops its work in a coherent catering& merchants, the Swiss development department of Mobimo in He has taught and lectured worldwide way where each parameter contributes Tech Convention Center (STCC). 2006, notably as project manager for at school of architecture in Spain, Italy, to defining an architecture that meets the prestigious Mobimo Tower. Switzerland, United Kingdom, Chile and the basic conditions that are: the Unites States. context and the program. It is about In March 2013, he took over the creating a strong image from a management of Mobimo Suisse Barozzi/Veiga was founded in Barcelona clear concept. Romande (which today comprises 48% by Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga of the Group’s own property portfolio, in 2004. The practice has since worked FHV’s work has been rewarded many including the Flon District and the internationally in public and private times during architectural competitions. future Rasude district). projects and it work has received several Several projects have received prestigious distinctions. Its body of distinctions from specialized journals Marc Pointet manages, with the help work includes cultural, educational and and have been the subject of articles or of his team Romand, many projects residential buildings as well as civic publications in various media. of renovation, construction and projects. Barozzi/Veiga have been development in strategic sites on the distinguished with the Ajac Young FHV is regularly invited to participate Lake Geneva, mainly in Lausanne Catalan Architect Award, the Barbara in conferences, on current themes that and Geneva. Cappochin International Architecture are at the heart of architectural and Award, and especially with the Gold urban concerns, as well as juries of Medal for Italian Architecture for the architectural competitions. Best Debut Work. 170 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 171

Robin Kirschke Esteban Amaya Patrick Moser Pat Heiz IttenBrechbühl IttenBrechbühl Curator of Villa Le Lac MADE IN Partner Associate Founding Partner

Robin studied Architecture at the Architect SCA and REG A, Esteban Patrick Moser is an art historian, Since its foundation in 2003, MADE RWTH Aachen in Germany. Following Amaya has a master’s degree in museologist, founder and curator of the IN has been active in competitions, his studies, he moved to London where architecture and in urban design. museum Villa “Le Lac” Le Corbusier in construction and research projects. he was working in the office of Nicolas He has led major architectural Corseaux / Switzerland. His research With offices in Geneva and Zurich, Grimshaw and Partner, participation in projects such as the realization of the on the relations between architecture MADE IN is active both national the design and realization of the new headquarters of the HSBC Private Bank and literature leads him to lecture in and international levels, developing trade hall 3 in Frankfurt. Robin came to at Quai des Bergues in Geneva and the Switzerland (UNIL, EPFL) and abroad proposals in urban contexts, complex Switzerland in 2001 joining the practice IOC in Lausanne. He is an architect who (Chalmers–Göteborg / Sweden), infrastructures and demanding of Luscher Architects in Lausanne. does not only master French, English Weissenhofwerkstatt (Stuttgart / programs of all scale and nature. The Besides working on numerous and Spanish, but who also evidences Germany). In 2010, he initiated a embedding in a humanistic environment competition and winning several prices, a great cultural sensitivity and an series of bibliophile publications on and the critical questioning of today’s he was the project architect for the new international profile. As the project architecture, exhibition catalogues and construction tasks are of central Swiss national stadium in Berne. Since manager, of the IOC Unity House specialized works. In 2015, for the 50th importance. The socio-cultural 2005 he is in charge of IttenBrechbühl’s Building, Esteban guaranteed a clear anniversary of Le Corbusier’s death, he relevance of the architect’s tasks in offices in Lausanne and Geneva. For and humane management during all the invites 10 major architects to imagine the urban context are always precisely several years, he led the project of phases of development and realization. an extension to the Villa “Le Lac” – analysed in the light of their permanent transformation of the Geneva train He is well known and respected for among them Daniel Libeskind, Mario change. The interaction between a station, the new university building her thoroughness, efficiency, attention Botta, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Bernard site, a specific client and a dynamic Geopolis in Lausanne and the new to detail and his ability to deliver high Tschumi, Rafael Moneo, Alvaro Siza... environment opens possibilities of headquarter of HSBC in Geneva. He quality work. In 2019, he curates the exhibition From innovative programmatic solutions was deeply involved in the early stages Bel-Air to Babel at Villa “Le Lac” Le that have built the core of MADE IN’s of the IOC project of the new Olympic Corbusier – a fine analysis of five local proposals. house and followed the project through skyscraper and/or towers that were to completion. Robin is one of the built or planned from 1930 to 1970 Beyond their ongoing engament as partners of IttenBrechbühl. in Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux and founding partners of the architectural Aminona (Crans-Montana). practice, Patrick Heiz and François Charbonnet devote themselves intensively to academical research and teaching. 172 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 173

Niklaus Graber Matthias Vollmer Johannes Rebsamen Daniel Wiener Graber & Steiger Architects ETH Zurich ETH Zurich President of the Board Global Infrastructure Basel CEO of ecos

After studies at ETH Zurich and Matthias Vollmer is an architect and Johannes Rebsamen, born 1980 in Daniel Wiener is the Founder and GSAPP/Columbia University New York research associate in the MediaLab Zürich, graduated in Architecture Chairman of ecos, the leading supplemented with practical trainings at the ETH Zurich. After completing and Urban Design at the ETH Zurich. Switzerland-based international in Basel (office Herzog & de Meuron his degree in film studies at the Since 2011, he teaches at the Chair of consulting firm for economic, social and Berlin (office Hans Kollhoff) Niklaus Zurich University of Arts (ZHdK), he Landscape Architecture of Christophe and environmental sustainable Graber and Christoph Steiger founded pursued a bachelor’s and master’s Girot. Together with Matthias Vollmer development, located in Basel. their Lucerne based architectural degree in architecture at the ETH. His and Ludwig Berger he conducts Since 1987, ecos has supported practice in 1995. Their work which research examines the relationship the Serendipity Elective Course, businesses, public institutions, has been awarded, exhibited and between architecture and landscape which focuses on the perception of associations, municipalities and published internationally includes through visual media, including laser Landscape. In parallel to his academic national governments in designing and public and institutional buildings as well scan technology, film and analog activity, Johannes Rebsamen is also implementing sustainable development as private residences. Among others photography. He is also co-founder and co-founder of Scanvision, an ETH strategies, innovation and projects. Graber & Steiger were participating co-director of SCANVISION, an ETH Spin-off in the field of 3D-measurement at the Swiss contribution to the 7th Spin-off in the field of 3D-measurement and visualization. In addition to his responsibilities International Architecture Biennale and visualization and co-founder of the at ecos, Daniel is the Founder and Sao Paulo in 2007. Between 2008 architectural office Atelier Schweizer President of the Global Infrastructure and 2015 Niklaus Graber & Christoph Vollmer. Basel Foundation, which promotes Steiger were teaching in the BA and sustainable and resilient infrastructure the MA of architecture courses at finance and the globally recognized Lucerne University of Applied Sciences SuRe® Standard for Sustainable and and Arts. Since 2016 they are visiting Resilient Infrastructure. faculty members of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements in Dhaka/Bangladesh. 174 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 175

Markus Schaefer Philippe Volpe Michael Kretz Mauritius Carlen Hosoya Schaefer Architects Gigon / Guyer Architects Swiss Museum of Transportation Scheitlin Syfrig Architekten Co-Founder Architect Dipl. Architect MA ZFH SIA

Markus Schaefer co-founded Hosoya Philippe Volpe graduated from ETH Michael completed an apprenticeship Mauritius Carlen, born in Solothurn in Schaefer Architects in 2003 together Zurich in 2002. Shortly after he joined as an architectural draftsman in 1992. 1982, completed an apprenticeship with Hiromi Hosoya. The office works David Chipperfield Architects in London After collaborating with several offices as structural engineer at Scheitlin on projects such as the Airport as a design architect. Over the course and continuing his studies he graduated Syfrig Architekten in Lucerne from Engadin, the railroad station in Herisau, of nearly six years he contributed to a from architecture school in Lucerne 1998 to 2002. He then studied at the the TechnologyCluster Zug or the Swiss number of major projects in the UK (HTL). He then joined the office of Prof. Zurich University of Applied Sciences Innovation Park in Zürich. International and abroad. Schnebli in Zurich (Schnebli Ammann (zhaw) in Winterthur, where in 2008 projects include two new urban Ruchat). Over the course of 5 years he obtained a master’s degree in quarters in Hamburg or work on four After returning to Switzerland Philippe he contributed to two big projects in architecture. Between 2003 and train stations in Toronto. joined Gigon/Guyer Architects in 2009. Switzerland. Subsequently he founded 2008 he studied at the Universitat He has since completed two residential CKK Architekten in Collaboration with Politècnica de València (UPV) and Markus Schaefer has a Masters of projects in the greater Zurich area P. Kölliker and I. Calovic. After that at the University of the Arts in Berlin Architecture from Harvard University (Zellweger Park, Uster / Labitzke-Areal, he worked as the head in a office for (UDK). Already during his studies, and a Masters in Neurobiology from the Zürich). Today he is in charge of the real estate and project development. Mauritius Carlen founded together University of Zürich. At Harvard, he first expansion of the Swiss Museum of Today Michael acts as the Head of with Domenico Parini the architecture collaborated with his current partner Transport in Lucerne. construction/architecture department firm Carlen Parini Architekten. Since Hiromi Hosoya on the Harvard Guide to at the Museum of Transport in Lucerne. 2008, he has also been working for Shopping, edited by Rem Koolhaas et He is overseeing all new building Scheitlin Syfrig Architekten, where he al. and published by Taschen in 2001. projects in the «Verkehrshaus». has been a partner and member of the Prior to founding Hosoya Schaefer, Executive Board since mid-2015. Since Markus Schaefer was the first director Michael likes to draw and paint. He 2014, Mauritius Carlen has also been of AMO in Rotterdam. AMO is the think lives with his teenage boy near Lucerne. a member of the Swiss Association of tank and research department of OMA, Engineers and Architects (SIA). the architecture office established by Rem Koolhaas. 176 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 177

Andreas Fuhrimann Daniel Lischer Daniele Marques Rainer Schlumpf Andreas Fuhrimann Gabrielle Hächler Architektur Lischer Marques Architekten Marques Architekten Architekten ETH BSA SIA AG Partner Partner Partner

Andreas Fuhrimann born 1956. Physics The building culture has interested Daniele Marques studied at the Swiss Rainer Schlumpf was born in 1977 in studies (4 semesters) and architectural Daniel since childhood. He understands Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich Sursee. After graduating from the college studies at the ETH Zurich, 1985 his work as a craft and the result as with Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli, of St. Fidelis in Stans, he began studying architectural degree at the ETH a sensual building. He is happy to among others. In 1977 he founded his architecture at the ETH in Zurich. After Zurich. 1 year design and planning work together with his office ALP own office in Lucerne. For 15 years graduating from “Studio Basel,” he architect in the architectural office Architecture Lischer Partners in a (1980 to 1996) he worked in partnership worked for a year as a graphic and Marbach + Rüegg. As of 1987 co- motivated team and he likes to meet with Bruno Zurkirchen. Between artistic colleague in the renowned operation with Christian Karrer. 1988 new challenges. He finds his personal 1997 and 2004 he worked together in advertising agency “Schönhaus” in Basel. lecturer at the School of Design and balance while running and spending architectural community for various He then completed his studies at the Crafts in “interior architecture”. As time on his alp in the Urnerland. projects and buildings with Morger university in Horw with the guidance of of 1995 co-operation with Gabrielle & Degelo . Since 2017 he works in Meinrad Morger. Hächler. 2005 admitted to the partnership with Rainer Schlumpf. His Association of Swiss Architects activities as a lecturer go far beyond After spending a year abroad in Japan, (BSA).2009-2011 Visiting Professor at the national borders. His work was he worked at EM2N in Zurich, where he the ETH Zurich. 2012-2014 Professor at published in 2003 (gta Verlag, ETH was involved in various competitions UDK Berlin. Zürich). Drawings and models have under Daniel Niggli. An employment been shown in numerous exhibitions with Burkhardt Partner Zurich also and galleries. added international project experience. After these “Zurich years” he returned to Lucerne in 2006 where he found employment in the studio of Daniele Marques. For over 10 years, he worked with Daniele Marques on various competitions and projects. They were able to celebrate some important competition successes such as the sports arena Allmend or Chateau Gütsch. In 2017, they founded the office Marques Architekten AG. 178 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND PEOPLE | SPEAKERS & MODERATORS 179

Daniel Walser Curt Fentress Prof., Dipl. Architekt ETH / SIA 2020 Committee on Design Chair

Daniel A. Walser, studied architecture Curtis Fentress is 2020 Chair for the at the ETH Zurich and the Sapienza COD and will be leading the spring in Rome. On graduating in 1998, he and fall design conferences. Curtis worked as assistant to Professor is principal in charge of design at Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (History Fentress Architects, headquartered in of Urban Planning) at the ETH in Zurich. Denver, Colorado.

From 1999 to 2004 he worked as a Fentress is internationally known as an research assistant on the degree innovative, award-winning designer of course in building and design at the airports, museums, convention centers, University of Applied Sciences HTW in laboratories, higher education, civic, Chur. He teaches architecture history, and government buildings. The firm has architecture theory and urban planning. been honored with more than 550 awards and accolades for design Between 2005 and 2009 he led the excellence and innovation, including faculty of architecture at the HTW Chur. over 100 AIA awards. Fentress was In 2006 he was involved in establishing elevated to the College of Fellows in the Chur Institute of Architecture, a new 1996, received the Thomas Jefferson faculty of architecture on a master level Award and the AIA Western Mountain in Switzerland until 2009. Region Silver Medal in 2010, and was named Architect of the Year by AIA Besides teaching, since 2010 his Colorado in 2012. Fentress has won focus is architecture research. Such over 50 national and international projects include the exhibition for the design competitions and is a frequent HTW Chur at the Langer Samstag juror and presenter. He is an alumnus (2012) with the title “City mountain, of North Carolina State University’s Mountain Agglomeration.” College of Design. SPONSORS

“It is only between the reality of things and the imagination that the spark of the work of art is kindled.” SPONSORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS – Peter Zumthor & ACKNOWL EDGEMENTS 182 2019 AIA COMMITTEE ON DESIGN CONFERENCE | SWITZERLAND SPONSORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 183

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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) AIA Committee on John Myefski, AIA | Sponsorship Chair Committee on Design (COD) knowledge Design Advisory Group community strategically pursues funding partners Robert Miller, FAIA | Honors & David Greenbaum, FAIA | 2019 Chair whose goals align with the AIA COD Sponsorship Awards Chair Principles. Funding from reputable organizations George Miller, FAIA | 2018 Chair Gold Medal and Firm Award provides opportunities to inspire emerging Doug Benson, FAIA Jim Lord, AIA | 2017 Chair professionals, supports continuing education for Paul Mankins, FAIA established design professionals, and secures Curt Fentress, FAIA | First Vice beneficial resources for COD programs. President, Chair-elect Twenty-five Year Award Dan Garber, FAIA Takashi Yanai, FAIA | Second Vice We thank our sponsors for making this program Heather Young, AIA possible and rewarding for attendees. President, Chair-elect, elect Donald Henke, AIA | Secretary Institute Honors for Collaborative Achievement Platinum Lori Krejci, AIA | Treasurer Craig Brandt, AIA USG Ceilings Plus, LLC Ann Thompson | Communications Myefski Architects, Inc. Honorary Fellowship AIA Outreach Philip Hamp FAIA Gold Ko Wibowo, AIA Andersen Windows Member Slide Show Humanitarian Award (proposed) Behr Paint Company Dori Johnson Jaya Kader, AIA Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Carlisle Construction Materials Fergus Garber Young Architects (FGY) Marvin Windows and Doors SmithGroup

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