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Studios

Lütjens Padmanabhan

After a joint stint at Diener & Diener Architekten, Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan opened their own practice in Zürich, in 2007. Their work focuses mainly on collective housing and individual homes: they are usually commissioned for projects in remote neighbourhoods that lack a clearly defined history or identity. They aim to design distinctive facades that emerge from the ambient anonymity. In collaboration with Caruso St John Architects, the pair is currently working on a residential complex in Zürich that includes 100 apartments, office spaces and a childcare facility, as well as on the Swiss embassy building in Algeria.
In addition to their architectural work, Lütjens and Padmanabhan have actively taught at ETH Zürich, TU of Munich and EPF Lausanne. They are currently Visiting Critics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Sauter Von Moos

Sauter von Moos is an architecture studio established in Basel by Florian Sauter and Charlotte von Moos, and as of late based in Miami.
The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice.
We like places of authenticity. Fine-tuned environmental, urban, and programmatic differentiation enhances spatial identity. We value the expressive powers of architecture, but also its need to answer the subtleties of the pragmatic. Fostering social interaction, our work should respond to both a communal and human scale. Shaped by earth, water, air, and light, it aims to intimately embrace and bring the world to presence, amazed by its complexity and beauty. Advocating for experimentation and exploration, freeness in architecture, for us, primarily means continually challenging one’s own convictions. As a joyful act of poetic imagination, we hope to create spaces and places of serenity, simplicity, and magical enchantment which, no matter how sumptuous or how humble, contribute to a dignified life.

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Professors

Florian Sauter

Sauter von Moos is an architecture studio established in Basel, Switzerland, in 2010, by Florian Sauter and Charlotte von Moos. The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice. Amongst their best-known projects are the House with a Tree (Basel, 2013), the competition entry for a Natural History Museum and City Archive (Basel, 2014), and the exhibition contribution Sonsbeek Ready-made for the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2017. Besides their practical activities, both partners have been engaged in teaching and research at different universities like ETH Zurich, the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Harvard GSD and TU Munich. As co-editors and authors they have published a series of books including Earth Water Air Fire (Actar, 2014), achtung: die Landschaft (Lars Müller Publishers, 2015) and Painting the Sky Black (de Gruyter Open, 2017).
“We like places of authenticity. Fine tuned environmental, urban and programmatic differentiation enhances spatial identity. We value a building’s expressive powers, but also its need to answer the subtleties of the pragmatic. Fostering social exchange and interaction, our architecture of the in-between should respond to both a communal and human scale. In each project, a specific assembly of rooms aims to create discrete backgrounds for life. Shaped by earth, water, air and light, our buildings seek to architecturalize nature. With the ease of a ruin we hope to bring the world to presence.”

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Oliver Lütjens

After a joint stint at Diener & Diener Architekten, Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan opened their own practice in Zürich, in 2007. Their work focuses mainly on collective housing and individual homes: they are usually commissioned for projects in remote neighbourhoods that lack a clearly defined history or identity. They aim to design distinctive facades that emerge from the ambient anonymity. In collaboration with Caruso St John Architects, the pair is currently working on a residential complex in Zürich that includes 100 apartments, office spaces and a childcare facility, as well as on the Swiss embassy building in Algeria.
In addition to their architectural work, Lütjens and Padmanabhan have actively taught at ETH Zürich, TU of Munich and EPF Lausanne. They are currently Visiting Critics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

luetjens-padmanabhan.ch

Thomas Padmanabhan

After a joint stint at Diener & Diener Architekten, Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan opened their own practice in Zürich, in 2007. Their work focuses mainly on collective housing and individual homes: they are usually commissioned for projects in remote neighbourhoods that lack a clearly defined history or identity. They aim to design distinctive facades that emerge from the ambient anonymity. In collaboration with Caruso St John Architects, the pair is currently working on a residential complex in Zürich that includes 100 apartments, office spaces and a childcare facility, as well as on the Swiss embassy building in Algeria.
In addition to their architectural work, Lütjens and Padmanabhan have actively taught at ETH Zürich, TU of Munich and EPF Lausanne. They are currently Visiting Critics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

luetjens-padmanabhan.ch

Lectures