Roger Boltshauser (born 1964) is a Swiss architect and professor at the ETH Zurich.
Roger Boltshauser was born in 1964 in Zürich. He studied architecture at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts between 1988 and 1990 and at the ETH Zurich between 1991 and 1995. After graduating, he founded an architectural practice in Zürich in 1996 and worked as a research assistant at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at gta Verlag. In 2007 he was appointed to the Association of Swiss Architects. Boltshauser taught as a design assistant at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (1990–1991), as a design assistant to guest lecturer Peter Märkli at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne (1997–1999), as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur (2004–2010), as a lecturer at the Hochschule Anhalt Dessau DIA in the Studio Chur Institute of Architecture (2005–2009), as an expert in design and construction at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (2011–2014), as a visiting professor at the EPF Lausanne (2016–2017) and at the TU Munich (2017). He has been teaching as a guest lecturer since 2018 and as a professor at ETH Zurich since 2024. [1]
Zürich Hauptbahnhof, often shortened to Zürich HB or just HB, is the largest railway station in Switzerland and one of the busiest in Europe. Zürich is a major railway hub, with services to and from across Switzerland and neighbouring countries such as Germany, Italy, Austria and France. The station was originally constructed as the terminus of the Spanisch Brötli Bahn, the first railway built completely within Switzerland. Serving up to 2,915 trains per day, Zürich HB is one of the busiest railway stations in the world. It was ranked as the second-best European railway station in 2020.
Dr. Udo Weilacher is a German landscape architect, author and Professor for Landscape Architecture.
Diener & Diener is an architectural firm established in Basel, Switzerland in 1942. The second generation of Diener & Diener has been active since 1980. The Basel office, along with its subsidiary in Berlin, has been headed by Roger Diener, since 2011, together with Terese Erngaard, Andreas Rüedi, and Michael Roth.
Winterthur railway station is the principal railway station of Winterthur, in the Swiss canton of Zürich. The station is listed on the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Property of National Significance.
Valerio Olgiati is a Swiss architect. He initially studied architecture at ETH Zurich, a public research university in Zurich, Switzerland.
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani is an architect, architectural theorist and architectural historian as well as a professor emeritus for the History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He practices and promotes a formally disciplined, timelessly classic, and aesthetically sustainable form of architecture, one without modernist or postmodernist extravagances. As an author and editor of several acclaimed works of architectural history and theory, his ideas are widely cited.
Thalwil railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Thalwil in the Swiss Canton of Zürich. The station is located on the Lake Zurich left bank main line and the Thalwil–Arth-Goldau railway, part of the Zurich to Lucerne line. To the Zurich side of the station, the Zimmerberg Base Tunnel diverges from the original lakeside line, whilst on the Lucerne side is the junction point where the Zurich to Chur and Zurich to Lucerne lines diverge. Thus all trains on both lines must pass through the station.
Zug railway station serves the municipality of Zug, the capital city of the canton of Zug, Switzerland.
Rudolf Olgiati was a Swiss architect. Olgiati is known for his work with Alfred Werner Maurer on the French Riviera, and has had some of his more notable work exhibited in the 1977 ETH Zürich.
Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architects is an architectural office based in Zurich, Switzerland. It is led by the Swiss-born architect Annette Gigon and the U.S.-born architect Mike Guyer. Works by the office have been widely published and are admired for their formal logic and legibility, their sensitive handling of materials, and their skillful use of color.
Thomas Vincent Emerson is a British architect based in London and Zürich. His practice, 6a architects, founded with Stephanie Macdonald in 2001 is best known for designing buildings for the arts and education for which it has won several RIBA Awards, the Schelling Medal for architecture. and the Tessenow Medal 2023. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to architecture and education. In 2023 Emerson and Macdonald were elected Royal Academicians by the Royal Academy in London.
Hans Danuser was a Swiss artist and photographer. His first major work, the cycle In Vivo, brought him international fame, therein he broke several societal taboos with respect to genetic research and nuclear physics. Since the 1990s, in addition to his photographic studies, Danuser has focused increasingly on transdisciplinary (research) projects in the arts and sciences.
Christian Georg Kerez is a Swiss architect, architectural photographer and professor.
Angela Deuber is a Swiss architect, born 1975 in Bad Kissingen. She studied at ETH Zurich and has her office in Zurich. Deuber works on both regional and international projects, participates in exhibitions, and gives lectures and reviews.
The Rupperswil–Immensee railway line is a railway line in the cantons of Aargau and Zug, in Switzerland. It runs 48.7 kilometres (30.3 mi) from Rupperswil to Immensee. The line runs north–south and interchanges with several other lines, including the Baden–Aarau, Heitersberg, Zofingen–Wettingen, Seetal, Brugg–Hendschiken, Bremgarten–Dietikon, Zug–Lucerne, and finally the Lucerne–Immensee and Gotthard at Immensee. The Aargau Southern Railway opened the line in stages between 1874 and 1882 and it has belonged to Swiss Federal Railways since 1902.
Raphael Zuber is a Swiss architect.
Silvia Gmür was a Swiss architect.
Philipp Schaerer is a Swiss artist active in the fields of photography and computer art. His works are represented in various collections of renowned museums, including the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), among others. Since 2014, Schaerer has been a guest professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and teaches digital design in the Department of Architecture's "Art and Architecture" program.
Günther Vogt is a Liechtensteiner landscape architect and professor emeritus.