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Maurus Schifferli (born 11 January 1973 in Wilderswil) is a Swiss landscape architect and professor.

Maurus Schifferli (born 11 January 1973 in Wilderswil) is a Swiss landscape architect and professor.

Zug-Schleife, Zug

Biography

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Maurus Schifferli completed a four-year apprenticeship as a landscape architect with Kienast Vogt Partner in Zurich and Bern in 1994 and studied landscape architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil from 1995 to 2000. In 1999, he worked at the Büro für Gestaltung in Munich and founded the landscape architecture firm 4d in Bern with Simon Schöni in 2000 and his own landscape architecture firm in 2014, which has offices in Bern, Basel, Lugano and Jakarta. Maurus Schifferli is a member of the SIA. Schifferli taught under Eberhard Stauss at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (1999), under Valerio Olgiati at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (2002), at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt (2005), at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Burgdorf (2005–2017), under Raphael Zuber at ETH Zurich (2018) and since 2024 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Maurus Schifferli was invited to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.

Principal works

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Schoolhouse Leutschenbach, Zurich
Schoolhouse Grono
Schoolhouse Thal
Villa Além, Alentejo
Landscape repair, Borneo

Projects

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  • 2002: School building Freudenberg, Zurich (architect: Christian Kerez, Ingenieur: Joseph Schwartz)
  • 2005–2006: Werkbundsiedlung Wiesenfeld, Munich (architect: Christian Kerez, ingenieur: Joseph Schwartz)
  • 2012: SUPSI university, Mendrisio (architect: Raphael Zuber)
  • 2012: Funeral chapel, Steinhausen (architect: Raphael Zuber)
  • 2012 School building Erlenmatt, Basel (architect: Raphael Zuber)
  • 2017: Urban Housing, Wil (architect: Pascal Flammer)
  • 2021: Beiertheimer Allee office building, Karlsruhe (architect: Valerio Olgiati)
  • 2021: University Campus, St. Gallen (architect: Pascal Flammer)
  • (architect: Roger Boltshauser)
  • (architect: Seiler Linhart)
  • (architect: Harry Gugger)
  • 2018: Houses with chambers and paths, Bern (architect: Atelier Scheidegger Keller)

Awards

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  • 2005: Silver Hare for Jardins de l'Hôtel de Ville et de l'Hôtel de la Poste, Sierre
  • 2005: Wakker Prize for new SBB regional railway stations, Zäziwil
  • 2007: Travel grant from the Canton of Bern for fine arts and architecture - study of the position and work of Geoffrey Bawa in Sri Lanka
  • 2009: Gold Hare for the Leutschenbach school building, Zurich
  • 2013: Federal Monument Award for the renovation and extension of the Gönhard Pavilion School, Aarau
  • 2013: Graubünden award for good buildings for Grono school building
  • 2014: Wakker Prize for the renovation and extension of the Gönhard Pavilion School, Aarau
  • 2015: Award for good buildings in the canton of Zug 2006-2015 for Zug-Schleife, Zug
  • 2015: Bronze Hare for Europaplatz, Bern
  • 2016: Award for good buildings in the city of Zurich 2011-2015 for the Grünmatt housing estate of FGZ, Zurich
  • 2017: Concrete Architecture Prize for the Buechen Thal school building
  • 2017: Hare in silver for the rectory garden, Trub
  • Garden of the Sierre town hall is a listed building in Sierre

Quotes

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  • "My gardens are physical manifestations and localizations of my understanding of things and thus faithful mediators of my thoughts, my dreams, my existence."
  • "Every day anew, the mysterious spectacle of life and the immeasurable beauty of nature is revealed to my eyes."
  • "Nature once gave us gardens, now gardens become archives that allow us to repair landscapes."
  • "My work is symbolic of inexhaustible and limitless meanings, whose language formulates allusions and suggestions to something inexpressible and is always profound."

Literature

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  • Maurus Schifferli (ed.): Strategies of Landscape Architecture. About Bocks, Zurich/Berlin, 2022 with contributions by Markus Peter and Christoph Schläppi[2]
  • Maurus Schifferli and Simon Schöni (eds.): 4d Landschaftsarchitekten. Edition Dino Simonett, Zurich 2013 with photographs by Milo Keller and a contribution by Christoph Schläppi, design: Dino Simonett, Bruno Margreth[3]

Contributions

  • Time Space Existence, "Biennale di Venezia". Contribution by Maurus Schifferli: Beyound Object and Abstraction, 2018
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References

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Mikael Olsson (born 1969 in Lerum) is a Sweden [[]] artist and actor.

Mikael Olsson (born 1969 in Lerum) is a Swiss artist and actor.

Biography

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  1. ^ "Administration Building of the Zug Waterworks". detail. 2022.
  2. ^ https://aabookshop.net/?wpsc-product=strategies-of-landscape-architecture
  3. ^ https://www.brunomargreth.ch/archive/4d-landschaftsarchitekten