Programme Salon Suisse 2012 - biennials.ch

Roger Diener (born 1950, Basel, Switzerland)
joined the office, established by his father Marcus
Diener, in 1980, which was renamed Diener & Diener
Architekten. The practice has offices in Basel and
Berlin. He is Professor and Chair of Architecture
and Design at the ETH Zurich — Studio Basel.
Tom Dyckhoff is a broadcaster and writer on
architecture, cities and design. He presents and BBC
2’s weekly arts magazine programme, The Culture
Show. He was until recently the architecture and
design critic of The Times newspaper, London. He
lives in London.
Tom Emerson founded 6a architects with Stephanie
Macdonald in London in 2001. In 2010 he was appointed
Professor of Architecture at the ETH Department of
Architecture in Zurich. He lives in London.
Liza Fior (born London, UK) was a founding partner
of muf architecture/art in 1995 with Katherine
Clarke. In 2010, she was the Curator of the British
Pavilion at the 12 th International Architecture
Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. She lives and
works in London.
Sabine von Fischer is an architect and writer, and
former editor of werk, bauen + wohnen. She has
practiced in Zurich and New York, and is a lecturer
in architectural criticism at the Department of
Architecture, ETH Zurich, where she is completing
her PhD on space, sound and architecture.
Foreign Architects Switzerland are a group of
anonymous architects, who produce a publication
that appears in a zine format, which they describe
as ‘a platform for ideas, projects, and people
that remain illegitimate to the brain-dead, incestuous
architectural media of Switzerland’.
Beatrice Galilee (born 1982, London, UK) is the Chief
Curator for the 2013 Lisbon Architecture Triennale.
Trained in architecture, she is also a writer and
critic on contemporary architecture and design, and
co-founded The Gopher Hole, an exhibition and event
space in London, which she directs.
Christoph Gantenbein (born 1971, St. Gallen,
Switzerland) established his own practice Christ &
Gantenbein with Emanuel Christ in 1998. The practice
has since built projects in Switzerland, Germany,
England, China and Mexico. He is Assistant Professor
at the ETH Zurich.
Matteo Ghidoni (born 1972, Brescia, Italy) is an
architect and Editor-in-chief of San Rocco magazine
and the founding partner of Salottobuono, design
laboratory based in Milan, set up in 2005. He is
completing a PhD in Urban Studies at IUAV University,
Venice.
Jean Paul Jaccaud (born 1971, Hong Kong, China)
established Jean-Paul Jaccaud Architects in
Geneva in 2004, having previously worked for David
Chipperfield Architects and Herzog & de Meuron
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