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where he studied architecture under Aldo Rossi and
Mario Campi. As a theoretician he is an initiator of
‘Analogue Architecture’ and in 1987 he established
his own practice in Zurich. He is representing
Switzerland at the 13 th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Steven Spier (born 1959, Montreal, Canada) is
Professor and Head of the School of Architecture and
Design at the University of Ulster in Belfast.
He has written and lectured extensively and is an
authority on contemporary European, especially
Swiss, architecture.
Peter Staub is Associate Professor of Architectural
Design Theory at the University of Liechtenstein.
He was previously Unit Master at the
Architectural Association School of Architecture
in London and taught at the École Polytechnique
Fédérale in Lausanne.
Philip Ursprung (born 1963, Baltimore, USA) is
an art historian and the Professor of the History of
Art and Architecture at ETH Zurich. Until 2011 he
was the Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at
the University of Zurich.
Robert Guy Wilson (born 1967, Torquay, UK) is a
curator, writer and editor, who trained as an
architect. He is Editor of Block magazine, Associate
Lecturer in Criticism, Communication and
Curation at Central St Martins, London, and lives
and works in London and Berlin. He is Salonnier
of Salon Suisse.
Astrid Staufer (born 1963, Lausanne, Switzerland)
established her own practice Staufer Hasler with
Thomas Hasler in 1994. In 2009 she became President
of the Editorial Committee of the magazine werk,
bauen + wohnen, and since 2011 she has been Professor
of Architecture at the Technische Universität Vienna.
Martin Steinmann (born 1942) is an architect and
author, and studied architecture at ETH Zurich.
He has written extensively on contemporary Swiss
architecture, and was Editor of Archithese magazine
from 1979 —86. Since 1987 he has been Professor of
Architecture at ETH Lausanne.
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