Annette Gigon
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Annette Gigon | |
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 Gigon photographed in 2008 | |
| Born | May 24, 1959 |
| Alma mater | ETH Zurich |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Gigon/Guyer Architects |
| Buildings | Kirchner Museum Winterthur Museum Extension, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Archaeological Museum and Park |
Annette Gigon (born May 24, 1959) is a Swiss architect born in Herisau, Switzerland. She is a founding partner of the office Gigon/Guyer and held a Chair of Architecture at ETH Zurich.[1]
Annette Gigon graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich in 1984.[2] After graduating, she worked for Marbach & Rüegg architects in Zurich from 1984 to 1985. Then, from 1985 to 1988, she worked for Herzog & de Meuron architects in Basel. She also worked as an independent architect from 1987 to 1989.[3]
In 1989, she founded Gigon/Guyer Architects with Mike Guyer, based in Zurich.[2] Their firm soon became internationally known by their museum designs (Kirchner Museum in Davos,[2]the Museum Extension in Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, and the Archaeological Museum and Park in Kalkriese near Osnabrück, Germany). Moreover, they have shared their time between more museum projects (the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne, for instance) and developing new solutions for both exclusive and cost-effective residential architecture and office buildings. Between their noticeable examples are the office high-rise Prime Tower in Zurich, the Würth Haus Rorschach, and the remodeling of the Löwenbräu-Areal.[4]
Gigon worked as a visiting professor at EPFL Lausanne in 2002. In 2003, she became a member of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.[5] She started as a guest professor at ETH Zurich in 2008 and has been a professor since 2012.[4] She is married and currently lives in Zurich.
