News

Jury Member Foundation Award 2013

April 2013
Raul Mera has been selected to participate on the jury of the Foundation Award 2013 (An award for young Swiss architects). The registration deadline for entry to the competition is April 30, 2013.
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Laban +10 Celebration

April 25th, 2013
It is 10 years since the inauguration of the Laban Dance Centre, a project developed and realized by Harry Gugger as a partner of Herzog de Meuron. Its constructors and users celebrated the building together at an event on the 25th of April.

Rob Leslie-Carter
“…it was just fabulous to see so many people who had spent so much time working on the project ten years on – mostly having moved on a couple of chapters professionally, but still enjoying the nostalgia of being part of a great team and a truly great project for an extraordinary organisation.”
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Opening Gallery Xavier Hufkens

April 16, 2013
The inaugural show ‘The end of the beans’ by Harold Ancart has opened Xavier Hufkens second gallery space in Brussels. The exhibition runs until May 25th, 2013.
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Completion Gallery Xavier Hufkens

April 2013
Harry Gugger Studio is proud to announce the completion of a new exhibition space for Gallery Xavier Hufkens in Brussels. The first exhibition by Harold Ancart is titled ‘The end of the beans’ and will open on the 16th April.
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3rd prize Competition Hotel and Park ‘Sidebütel’

April 12, 2013
Harry Gugger Studio has won 3rd prize with the project ‘Sidebütel’ in the open competition for a new hotel and park in Heiden, Appenzell, CH.
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The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2012

March 2013
laba’s recent publication ‘Barents Lessons’ was one of eighteen winners of the ‘Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2012’.
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Selection for Competition

April 3, 2013
Harry Gugger Studio has been selected to participate in a new Housing Study in Fleischbachstrasse, Reinach, CH. In collaboration with Ganz Landschaftsarchitekten.

Construction Site Update Allschwil

March 27, 2013
The housing development in Allschwil is under construction, the excavation is completed and the building contractor’s work is progressing with the basement construction

Projects

032 Bird College

Further Education College Campus, London, UK
Selected Competition, 12.2012-02.2013
In collaboration with Friend and Company Architects


030 ‘Hotel and Park ‘Sidebütel’

3rd Prize, Heiden, CH
Open Competition, 10.2012 – 12.2012


026 House with Swimming Pool

Private Residence, Saint Sulpice, CH
Direct Commission 05.2012-10.2012

025 Pavillon Place Cosandey EPFL

Public Building, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Competition 04.2012 – 05.2012


024 Gallery Xavier Hufkens

Exhibition Space, Brussels, BE
Direct Commission, 03.2012-04.2013

022 Housing Juraweg

Private Residences, Dornach, CH
Direct Commission, 02.2012-03.2012

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021 Hotel and Apartments

High-rise Housing and Hotel, Berlin, DE
Selected Competition, 02.2012-04.2012


019 Housing Gellertstrasse

Private Residences, Basel, CH
Selected Competition, 04.2011-08.2011

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018 Department Store Conversion

Retail Development, Zürich, CH
Direct Commission, 05.2011-10.2011

017 Transitlager

Mixed-use development, Münchenstein, CH
Selected Competition, 05.2011-07.2011


014 Musée Cantonal des Beaux Arts (MCBA)

Museum Building, Lausanne, CH
Selected Competition, 11.2010-03.2011

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013 Limmatfeld Mixed-use Development

Zürich, CH
Selected Competition, 11.2010-01.2011

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012 Petalida, Private Residence

Antiparos, Greece
2010-2012

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011 Bürohaus, Pro Specie Rara

Office Building, Münchenstein, CH
Direct Commission, 11.2010-02.2011

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010 Housing, Port Austerlitz

High-rise Housing, Strasbourg, FR
Selected Competition, 02.2012-05.2012

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008 Katoikia, Private Residence

Antiparos, Greece
2010-2011

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006 Zoo Restaurant

Restaurant and Conversion, Basel, CH
Invited Competition, 07-2011-10.2011

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005 High Density Housing

Housing Development, Allschwil, CH
Direct Commission, 2010-2014

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004 Private Office

Private office and extension of existing residence, Basel
completed in march 2012

003 “My shirt on your chair” Claudio Moser

Exhibition at Kunstmuseum Thun, CH
Direct Commission, 2009

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001 House Gugger

Private Residence, Bruderholz, CH
Direct Commission, 1995 – 1996

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Previous projects

As partner of Herzog & de Meuron Harry Gugger was in charge of the following projects

Arts

KMOMA, The Kolkata Museum of Modern Art, Kolkata, India,
Concept design (2008- )
Tate Modern 2, Transforming Tate Modern, London, UK (2004- )
CaixaForum, Madrid, ES (2001-2008)
Tate Masterplan, London, UK (2003)
Schaulager® for the Emanuel Hoffmann-Foundation Münchenstein, CH (1998-2003)
Expansion of the Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, CH (1999-2003)
Tate Modern, London, UK (1995-2000)

Education

Laban Dance Center, London, UK (1998-2003)
Eberswalde Technical School Seminar Building, DE (1994-1997)
Eberswalde Technical School Library, DE (1994-1999)
Library and Masterplan of Cottbus Technical University, DE Competition Design (1993)
Antipodes II, Student Housing for the Université de Bourgogne, FR (1991

Sports

Lord’s cricket ground masterplan, London, UK, Competition, Masterplan (2008- )
London Olympics 2012, Masterplan, UK, Competition Design (2003)
National Stadium Beijing, Competition Design, CN (2003)
Allianz Arena, Munich, DE, Competition Design (2001-2002)

Residential

Umm Lafina, The Umm Lafina Island Project, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Competition Design (2007-2008)
Wohnen am Wasser, Studie Wohnen am Wasser, Solothurn, CH (2006- )
St. Pauls Way, London, UK, Residential Development (2004–2007)
Greengate House, Plaistow, UK (2003- )

Commercial

CityGate, Basel, CH, Selection process (2006-2007)
Prada New York, Headquarters Prada, US (2000-2002)
Elsässertor II, Office and Commercial Building, Basel, CH (2000-2004)

Industrial

SüdPark, Study Railway Station SBB, Basel, CH (2002 – )
Enlargement Engine Depot, Basel, CH (2003)
Central Signal Box, Basel, CH (1995-1999)
Signal Box, Auf dem Wolf, Basel, CH (1991-1994)
Railway Engine Depot, Auf dem Wolf, Basel, CH (1991-1995)

Masterplanning

Wohnen am Wasser, Studie Wohnen am Wasser, Solothurn, CH (2006- )
St Thomas Street, Bermondsey, London, UK, Conceptual Masterplan (2007-2008)
The Clearings, The Draycott Estate, Chelsea, London, UK, Conceptual Masterplan (2007)

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Practice

Harry Gugger established his Studio in May 2010, after 19 years of partnership at Herzog & de Meuron.
Drawing from the conclusions of this experience Harry Gugger’s Studio (HGS) puts emphasis on the singularity of each single project and aims at exploring the research potential each project has on offer in close collaboration with its clients.
In questioning the traditional role of the architect as the author of an architectural project HGS seeks to initiate a multiple authorship with clients and other consultants. Highly professional in its organisation HGS cultivates the necessary “dilettantism” to discover the unique character of each project.


Competition Entry Limmatfeld Zurich, Rapidplatz, 02.2011


Competition Entry Limmatfeld Zurich, Perception of Tower, 02.2011


Competition Entry MCBA Lausanne, Perspective View, 02.2011, Image: tanuki


Study for Conversion of the Transitlager at Dreispitz, Basel, 08.2011

Harry Gugger

Harry Gugger was a toolmaker’s apprentice from 1973 to 1977, before studying machine engineering from 1977 to 1979. From 1984 to 1989 he studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) with Flora Ruchat and at Columbia University, New York with Tadao Ando. He received his degree in architecture at the ETHZ in 1990. His collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron began in 1990 when he was their assistant at the summer school in Karlsruhe. From 1991 to 2009 he was a partner of the firm.
Among other projects Harry Gugger was in charge of the following: the two Signal Boxes (1991-1994 and 1995-1999) and the Engine Depot (1991-1995) for the Swiss Federal Railways in Basel; the Eberswalde Technical School Library (1994-1999); Tate Modern in London (1995-2000); the Headquaters for Prada USA in New York (2000-2002) and the Schaulager Basel for the Laurenz Foundation (1998-2003). Recent projects include the CaixaForum, Madrid (2001–2008), Tate Modern Extension, London (2004- ) and KMOMA, The Kolkata Museum of Modern Art, Kolkata (2008- ). The Laban Dance Centre in London (1998-2003), was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize 2003. In 2004 Harry Gugger received the Swiss Art Award Prix Meret Oppenheim.
Harry Gugger was visiting professor at the Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen in Weimar in 1994 and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 2001. 2005 Harry Gugger became full professor for architectural design at the EPFL, where he founded the Laboratory for Architectural Production (lapa).
Harry Gugger was Head of the Holcim Awards jury for region Europe in 2008.
In 2010 Harry Gugger founded Harry Gugger Studio and has become a member of the board of trustees of the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.

Collaborators

José Pedro Azevedo

1986 Born in Vila do Conde, Portugal
2004-2011 Studied architecture at Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
2009-2010 Studied architecture at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio
Severin Berchtold

1984 Born in Lucerne, Switzerland
2005-2011 Studies of Architecture at ETH Zürich
2007-2008 Internship at KEN Architects, Zürich
2009 rollimarchini Architects, Bern
2011-2012 Independent Practise
since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio, Basel
Chris Blackbee

1982 Born in Perth, Australia
2000-2004 Bachelor of Architecture with Honours from Curtin University, Perth, Australia
2003-2004 Internship at The Buchan Group Architects, Perth
2004-2005 The Buchan Group Architects, Perth
2005-2007 51N4E, Brussels
2008-2010 Santiago Calatrava, Zurich
2011-2012 Steinmann and Schmid, Basel
since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio
Wtanya Chanvitan

1985 Born in Chiang Mai, Thailand
2002-2007 Studied Architecture at King Mongkut,s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
2010-2012 Studied Architecture at Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio
Annette Fromm

1984 Born in Stuttgart
2003-2005 Studies of Architecture at EPFL Lausanne
2005-2006 Studies of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2006 Architram, Renens
2007 Abcarius Burns architecture design, Berlin
2007-2012 Studies of Architecture at EPFL Lausanne
2012 Schwob & Sutter Architekten, Bubendorf
Paul Glade

1992 Born in Bratislava, Slovakia
2011 Swiss Matura, Basel, Switzerland
since 2013 Harry Gugger Studio
Harry Gugger

1956 Born in Grezenbach, Switzerland
1973-1977 Apprenticeship as toolmaker
1984-1989 Studies in Architecture at ETH Zurich and Colombia University New York, NY,
1990 Collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron
1991 Partnership with Herzog & de Meuron
1994 Visiting Professor at the Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen, Weimar
2001 Visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2004 Awarded the Meret Oppenheim Prize
since 2005 Professorship at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
2010 Founding Harry Gugger Studio
Henriette Gugger

1973 Born in Gera, Germany
1993-2000 Studies of Architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar and Chalmars Tekniska Högskolan, Gothemburg, Sweden
2000-2003 Assistant at Chair for Residential Design, Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
2001-2003 AFF-architekten, Weimar/Berlin, Germany
2003-2005 Herzog & de Meuron Uk Ltd, London, UK
2005-2008 Senior assitant at lapa, laboratoire de production d`architecture, EPFL Lausanne
since 2010 Harry Gugger Studio
Alasdair Graham

1978 Born in Aberdeen, Scotland
1996-2002 First-class Honours Degree in Architecture from Mackintosh School of Architecture
2002-2003 Diploma in Architecture from Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2003-2005 Masters in Architecture with Distinction from Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (part-time)
1999 Reid, Jubb, Brown Partnership, UK
2000-2001 Erick van Egeraat Associated Architects, Rotterdam, NL
2003-2005 Avanti Architects, London, UK
2005-2006 Zaha Hadid Architects, London, UK
2006-2010 OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, New York, Shenzhen and Hong Kong
since 2010 Harry Gugger Studio, Basel, CH
Yann Gramegna

1980 Born in Lausanne, Switzerland
1996-2000 Apprenticeship as design draughtsman, AC Atelier Commun SA, Lausanne
2001-2002 CMS, Specialized Math Course, EPFL Lausanne
2002-2008 Studies of Architecture at EPFL Lausanne and TU Berlin
2005-2006 Internship at Hosoya/Schaefer Architects, Zürich
2008-2010 Herzog & de Meuron, Basel
Since 2010 Harry Gugger Studio
Monika Joos

1985 Born in Heilbronn, Germany
2006-2012 Studies of Architecture and Urban Planning at University of Stuttgart
2008-2009 Internship at Foster + Partners, London
2011 Internship at Kuehn Malvezzi, Berlin
Since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio
Coryn Kempster

1974 Born in Brantford, Canada
1999-2008 Studies in Art and Architecture at University of Toronto and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1999-2003 HSA Architects, Toronto
2005-2006 Barkow Leibinger Architekten, Berlin
2007-2008 Independent Practice
2008-2010 Herzog & de Meuron, Basel
since 2010 Harry Gugger Studio
Katja Kleinert

1977 Born in Dresden, Germany
1997 – 2000 Apprenticeship as design draughtswoman, Möhle & Röddel, Weisenheim am Sand
2000 – 2006 Studies of Architecture at the University Darmstadt
2002 – 2003 Internship Claudio Silvestrin, London, GB
2005 – 2007 Dierks Blume Nasedy Architects, Darmstadt/ Frankfurt am Main
2007 – 2012 Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür Architekten, Basel
since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio
Maxime Florean

1991 Born in Metz, France
2009-2011 Studied architecture at EPFL Lausanne
2011-2012 Studied architecture at TU Delft
Since 2013 Harry Gugger Studio
Raul Mera

1976 Born in Basel, Switzerland
1992 – 1996 Apprenticeship as design draughtsman, David Muspach Architekt HTL, Basel
1996 – 1998 Collaboration with David Muspach Architekt HTL, Basel
2002 – 2008 Studies of Architecture at Hochschule für Technik Zürich (part-time)
2001 – 2006 Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architekten, Zürich
2007 Buchner Bründler Architekten, Basel
2007 – 2010 EM2N, Mathias Müller & Daniel Niggli, Zürich
2008 – 2010 Teaching Assistent, Hochschule für Technik Zürich
since 2010 assistant professor BA of Architecture, ZHAW Zürich
since 2010 Harry Gugger Studio
Salome Nikuradze

1985 Born in Tbilisi, Georgia
2003-2008 Honours BA with distinction in Architecture and Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
2009-2012 Masters in Architecture, University of Toronto (ongoing)
2008-2009 Independent artist
2009-2012 An te Liu Studio, Toronto
2010 Bruce Mau Design, Toronto
Since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio
Korbinian Schneider

1981 Born in Munich, Germany
2000-2006 Studies of Architecture at EPFL Lausanne
2007-2008 OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2008-2009 Metrogramma, Milan,Italy
2009 Güller Güller Architecture Urbanism, Zurich
2009-2010 Independent Practice
since 2010 Harry Gugger Studio
Frank Zierau

1961 Born in Oldenburg i.O., Germany
1982-1988 Studies of Architecture University Hannover, Germany
1986/1987 Studies of Architecture at ETH Zurich
1988-1989 Schweger+Partner, Hamburg, Germany
1990 Burckhardt Partner AG, Zurich
1991-1995 Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten, Zurich
1996 Burkhard Meyer Steiger, Baden
1997-2011 Independent Practice
since 2011 Harry Gugger Studio

Teaching:
1993-1995 Assistant to Marcel Meili, Markus Peter, ETH Zurich
1995-1996 Scientific Collaborator, Prof Walter Nägeli, University Karlsruhe, Germany
1996-1999 Assistant to Axel Fickert, ETH Zurich
2004-2006 assistant professor MA of Architecture, Hochschule Liechtenstein, Vaduz
since 2011 assistant professor BA of Architecture, ZHAW Winterthur

Michael Zink

1982 Born in Bühl, Germany
2002-2006 Studies of Architecture at HsKA, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004-2005 Internship at MV Architects, Beijing, China
2007-2009 Steinmann & Schmid Architekten, Basel
2010-2011 Schneider & Schneider Architekten, Aarau
since 2012 Harry Gugger Studio
Former Collaborators

Anna Pechtl
Noélie Sénéclauze
Susanne Schanz
Leon Faust
Benjamin Barfield-Marks
Ahmed Belkhodja
Emi Brian
Raphael Dufresne
Filipe Magalhães
Patrick Meng
Ana Luisa Soares
Javier Mora Sanchez

Teaching

Since 2011 the EPFL runs an urban design laboratory in Basel. At Laba (Laboratory Basel), students and scientists work on the cities of the future. Together with Studio Basel, led by ETH Zurich, a true centre of competence in architecture and urban planning is set up in the city on the Rhine.


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In August 2011, Prof. Gugger inaugurated a laboratory devoted to urban design research and teaching at the Ackermannshof in Basel. Laba brings together scientists and PhD and Master students from Lausanne. Simultaneously, a collaboration platform is being set up with Studio Basel, a laboratory of ETH Zurich which notably relies on the expertise of architects Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Roger Diener and Marcel Meili.

Urban development, a worldwide problem… which also affects Switzerland

Urbanization is a most topical issue. Whereas the word calls forth the skyscrapers on the US East Coast or the megacities in Asia, Harry Gugger observes that there is no need to look that far. Switzerland – one of the world’s most densely populated countries – is a perfect open-air laboratory. “Every day a large share of our land is sacrificed to accommodate urban development. Many areas considered as countryside just twenty years ago no longer really fit this definition”.
“The time has come to ask ourselves what kind of urbanization we want”, says the architect. “The differences between town and country tend to gradually fade away. Personally, I find that extremely sad”.
Basel will provide an ideal venue to design the cities of tomorrow. Laba will welcome about thirty Master students from Lausanne two days a week, as well as three PhD students, tutored by a teaching staff of three.

Basel – a meeting point for the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology

This EPFL laboratory is located in the Ackermannshof, a 14th century architectural ensemble at the heart of the student quarter. In the immediate vicinity are the Basel University, the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and Studio Basel, the ETH Zurich’s outpost devoted to urban and architectural research.
A collaboration platform called Cerberus has been implemented together with Studio Basel, which relies, among others, on the talent of Pritzker Prize winner Jacques Herzog. “By putting together Studio Basel and Laba, we shall have a sound critical mass of scientists and students”, the architect explains. “Moreover, Basel is without a doubt the architecture and urban design capital of Switzerland. In such a stimulating environment, we are bound to create something extraordinary”.

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Awards

2013 Laba’s recent publication Barents Lessons awarded one of the Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2012, A competition by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture (BAK).
2010 Golden Lion of the Venice Architecture Biennale for the National Pavilion of Bahrain
2009 CaixaForum-Madrid receives the “Premio de Urbanismo y Construcción de la Ciudad” of X Bienal de Arquitectura Española; ES
2004 Harry Gugger is awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim, Office Fédéral de la Culture, CH
2003 Laban Dance Center, London, UK wins RIBA Stirling Prize
1999 Brandenburgischer Architekturpreis 1999, Land Brandenburg/D for the Library Technical School Eberswalde, DE
1999 Rolf Schock Prize for the Visual Arts, Stockholm
1996 Construtec Prize for the Signal Box in Basel, European Prize for Industrial Architecture, Hannover, DE
1996 Max Beckmann Award, Frankfurt a. M., DE
1996 Brunel Award 1995, Washington DC for the Railway Engine Depot Auf dem Wolf in Basel, US
1995 Brunel Award 1994, Washington DC for the Signal Box in Basel, US

Press

Harry Gugger im Gespräch mit Stephanie Gräve über die Schweiz

By Harry Gugger – Theater Basel 28.11.2012
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Architektur Gespräch Einsiedeln: Was ist Architektur?

By Harry Gugger – 17.11.2012
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“Un artiste intransigeant et libre”

By Harry Gugger – Le Temps, 24.09.2012
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Planspiele für 16 Millionen Schweizer

By Harry Gugger – Basler Zeitung 10.01.2012
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Harry Gugger en plein lumiere

By Lorette Coen – Le Temps, 18.09.2010
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Vacancies

To complete our team we are looking for talented professionals to join the studio. Our office provides stimulating working environment where collaborators can broaden their experience by actively participating in the development of national and international projects at various stages of completion.

Architect
No openings at present

- Excellent design skills
- Highly motivated team player with proactive approach
- Minimum 2 years of experience
- Excellent command of Adobe Creative Suite and Vectorworks
- 3D Modelling skills, command of Rhino an advantage
- Fluent in German and proficient in English and/or French

Intern
2 openings at present

- Strong graphic and design talent
- Highly motivated, responsible and curious team player
- Excellent command of Adobe Creative Suite, Vectorworks and Rhino
- Excellent model building skills
- Employment duration: 12 months
- Start in Summer 2013 or as agreed upon
- Fluent in German and/or English

Draftsman/Drafsperson
1 opening at present

- Precise and responsible team player
- Apprenticeship completed and minimum two years professional experience required
- Excellent command of Vectorworks
- 3D Modelling skills, command of Rhino an advantage
- Fluent in German, English an advantage

Please apply by email with covering letter, CV and A4 examples of work in pdf format to recruit@hgugger.ch
We try to respond to all enquiries, but the number of applications we receive may at times prevent us from contacting candidates other than those shortlisted for interview.
We regret that we are unable to return portfolios submitted.

Contact

If you require press information about us and our projects, please contact us at:
media@hgugger.ch

If you wish to apply for employment or an internship, please contact us at:
recruit@hgugger.ch

If you are planning a project and would like more information about us, please contact us at:
projects@hgugger.ch

For any other questions, we are happy to receive your mail at:
mail@hgugger.ch

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