Peter Märkli, “My Profession, The Art of Building”

Peter Märkli was born in 1953. He lives and works as architect in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1978, he established his own studio, Studio Märkli, in Zurich. From 2002-2015 he had a Professorship in architecture at the ETH in Zurich. Since 2013, he is a visiting professor at MARCH school of architecture in Moscow. His work includes many smaller and bigger residential buildings, as well as La Congiunta, a building for the reliefs and sculptures by Hans Josephsohn, Giornico (1992), The new organ at the cathedral in Basel (2003), extension and general renovation of a model school by Viktor Hufnagl, in Wörgl, Austria (2003), Im Birch school, Zurich (2006), Novartis visitor center, in Basel (2006), Picassoplatz office building, in Basel (2008) Cave Fin Bec, in Valais (2012), the headquarters building for Synthes, in Solothurn (2012), Belvoirpark Hotel and Restaurant management school, in Zurich (2014), Gutstrasse housing, in Zurich (2013), Masterplan Gutstrasse, in Zurich (2015-2017), and the new zoning and building code for Glarus Nord (2015-2017).
His publications include: Approximations: The Architecture of Peter Märkli. London: Architecture Association Publications (2002), Zeichnungen / Drawings Peter Märkli. Lucerne: Quart (2015), Märkli Professur für Architektur an der ETH Zürich 2002-2015. Zurich: gta Verlag (2016), Everything One Invents is True. Lucerne: Quart (2017) and numerous catalogues for exhibits including at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. He participated in the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012. He has exhibited his drawings in Basel, London, Copenhagen, Budweis, Somerset, Moscow and Tokyo.

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I want to give a thousand thumbs up!!! This is probably the only time that he explains so much of his ideas and it's so moving to listen to him talking in his Swiss accented German

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Amazing architect, amazing lecture!

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wow, this is very new.

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master.

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Dean stops talking at 8:19

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8:15

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here comes the deutsch

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*swiss german

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@@ProductionAL haha, nein, das ist doch hochdeutsch.