Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron architectural practice was founded in 1978 by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, both of whom were born in Basel in 1950 and graduated from Zurich Polytechnic (where Aldo Rossi was one of their instructors). Both of them combine teaching with a career in architecture; they taught at Harvard between 1989 and 1994 and have taught at Eth Polytechnic in Basel since 1999. “Herzog & de Meuron have played a crucial role in the development of Swiss architecture since 1985...” (Bideau). Often described as close to the minimalist movement, since their earliest projects (single-family homes, industrial and office constructions) they have “attempted to poetically transfigure the everyday simplicity of an agglomeration, underlining motifs in construction and ....

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