Pierre de Meuron is one of the co-founders of world leading architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron.
Pierre de Meuron was born in Basel in 1950 and studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) from 1970 to 1975 with Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli. He received his degree in architecture in 1975, establishing his own practice with Jacques Herzog in 1978. In 1977, he was an assistant to Prof. Dolf Schnebli. Since 1994, he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, and he has taught as a professor at ETH Zurich since 1999, where he co-founded ETH Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute. In 2001, Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, followed by the Praemium Imperiale in 2007.
Currently, their office employs an international team of around 400 people working on more than 50 projects worldwide, with branch offices in, Hamburg, London, Madrid, New York and Hong Kong.
Herzog & de Meuron have designed a wide range of projects from the small scale of a private home to the large scale of urban design.
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