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Cooperative Housing: Barbara Petri (Thumbnail)
Barbara Petri
Basel, Zurich

Barbara Petri, Dipl.-Ing. Architect RWTH SIA

Barbara Petri, born in Rheinhausen (Germany). Studied architecture at RWTH Aachen with a diploma under Gottfried Böhm with an exchange year at ETH Zurich under Giancarlo Durisch. 2 years of office work at OM Ungers in Frankfurt. From 1982 worked as an architect in Zurich and St. Gallen. Shared office with Markus Schaefle from 1985 to 1988. 12 years as a teaching assistant in design and construction at the ETHZ with Prof. Herbert Kramel, 10 years as a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart and 5 years as a lecturer at the Zurich University of Technology ZHAW. Partner and guide at ARCHiTOUR since 2005.

Tours in German, English.

Cooperative Housing: Claudia Frigo Mallien (Thumbnail)
Claudia Frigo Mallien
Basel, Zurich

Claudia Frigo Mallien, dipl. Architect ETH

Claudia Frigo Mallien, born in Baden (Switzerland). Studied architecture in Zurich at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ. Office work in Basel in the area of ​​hospital planning and in planning and consulting offices in Zurich. 7 years assistant at the ETHZ for design & construction with Prof. Arthur Rüegg, organizing all study trips for students. She writes about architectural projects in the Swiss Building Documentation magazine. She has been working as an architect in Baden at Schoop De Santis Architekten AG since 2008 and is a partner and guide at ARCHiTOUR.

Tours in German, English, Italian, French.

Cooperative Housing: Kristin Müller (Thumbnail)
Kristin Müller
Basel, Zurich

Kristin Müller, dipl. Architect ETH SIA

Kristin Müller, born in Zurich (Switzerland). Studied architecture in Zurich at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETHZ. Office work in Seville (Spain) with G. Vazquez Consuegra arquitectos, then own office in Zurich, two architects. Since 1992 until today as project manager and since 2014 partner at Ryf Partner Architects. From 2000 to 2017, lecturer in design and construction at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW. 2002 Founding of ARCHiTOUR.

Tours in German, English, French, Spanish.

Cooperative Housing: Olivia Bucher (Thumbnail)
Olivia Bucher
Basel, Zurich

Olivia Bucher, MSc ETH Arch

Olivia Bucher, born in Bern (Switzerland). Studied architecture in Zurich at the ETH with exchange semesters in São Paulo at the FAU and in Lausanne at the EPFL. Office work in Bern at Büro B and Co. Architekten, in Lausanne at Pont12 architectes and in Zurich at Ryf Partner Architekten. She works in project development at EBP in the Construction + Real Estate division. Guide since 2022 and partner at ARCHiTOUR since 2024.

Tours in German, English, French, Spanish.

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Tour in Zurich:
Cooperative Housing

Since more than 100 years cooperative housing has a tradition in Zurich. To up-grade their position, most cooperatives decided to replace old buildings or even enlarge their building-portfolio with new developments. The city-council helps with low rates for the plots under consideration of realize new project according to a selected architectural competition. This change made it also attractive to younger people or even architects to live in modern residential buildings.

– Duration: 4 hours
– Transport: By public transport and walking
– Services: Experienced local architect as guide
– Languages: German, English, French, Spanish or Italian
– Group size: max. 25pax per guide

Selection of included projects:

- Zollhaus, (Enzmann Fischer, 2021)
- Kalkbreite, (Müller Sigrist, 2014)
- Im Gut, (Peter Märkli, 2012)
- Siedlung Triemli 1, (Hauenstein La Roche Schedler, 2017)
- Triemli, (von Ballmoos Krucker, 2011)
- Paul-Clairmont, (Gmür & Steib, 2006)
- Grünmatt, (Graber Pulver, 2012)

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