Silvia Gmür (17 September 1939 – 24 January 2022) was a Swiss architect. After earning a degree from

ETH Zurich ETH Zurich (; ) is a public university in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists, the university focuses primarily on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. ETH Zurich ran ...

in 1964, she worked in Paris, London, and New York City with Mitchell-Giurgola from 1966 to 1972. That year, she founded her own agency in

Basel Basel ( ; ), also known as Basle ( ), ; ; ; . is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine (at the transition from the High Rhine, High to the Upper Rhine). Basel is Switzerland's List of cities in Switzerland, third-most-populo ...

and partnered with

Livio Vacchini Livio Vacchini (February 27, 1933 – April 2, 2007) was a Swiss architect from Ticino. Life Livio Vacchini was born in Locarno. From 1953 to 1958 he studied architecture at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. After a stay in Sto ...

from 1995 to 2001. Gmür was also a professor at ETH Zurich from 1979 to 1985. An exhibition of her projects was displayed at the

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urba ...

in 2014, the same year in which a similar exhibition was held at the Galerie d'Architecture in Paris.

Buildings

* 1977–1979: House and Atelierhouse Gmür,

Riehen Riehen (Swiss German: ''Rieche'') is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. Together with the city of Basel and Bettingen, Riehen is one of three municipalities in the canton. Riehen hosts the Fondation Beyeler (a private ...

with ingenieure Pierre Beurret Together with Livio Vacchini: * 1995–1998: Three Houses,

Beinwil am See Beinwil am See is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Kulm (district), Kulm in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of Aargau in Switzerland. With a population of 3,418 as of December 2020, it's known for its diverse ...

* 1993–2000: Bedhouse D – Cantonal hospital

Grisons The Grisons (; ) or Graubünden (),Names include: * ; *Romansh language, Romansh: ** ** ** ** ** **; * ; * ; * . See also list of European regions with alternative names#G, other names. more formally the Canton of the Grisons or the Canton ...

Chur '' Chur (locally) or ; ; ; ; ; ; or ; , and . is the capital and largest List of towns in Switzerland, town of the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, canton of the Grisons and lies in the Alpine Rhine, Grisonian Rhine Valley, where ...

-Masans * 2002: University Hospital

, extension Klinikum 1 west Together with Reto Gmür: * 2012: Cantonal hospital St. Gallen, institute for Rechtsmedizin and Pathologie * 2021: Citizens' Hospital

Solothurn Solothurn ( ; ; ; ; ) is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains. The town is ...

* since 2021:

Charité The Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Charité – Berlin University of Medicine; ) is Europe's List of hospitals by capacity, largest university hospital, affiliated with Humboldt University of Berlin, Humboldt University and the Free ...

Center,

Berlin Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...

with landscape architect

Maurus Schifferli Maurus Schifferli (born 11 January 1973, Wilderswil) is a Switzerland, Swiss landscape architect and professor. Biography Maurus Schifferli completed a four-year apprenticeship as a landscape architect with Dieter Kienast, Kienast Günther Vogt, ...

* since 2021: Extension Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin with landscape architect Maurus Schifferli

Awards

Progressive Architecture Award The Progressive Architecture Awards (P/A Awards) annually recognize risk-taking practitioners and seek to promote progress in the field of architecture. History In June 1920, ''Pencil Points'' magazine was founded. At some point it was renamed to ...

(1977) * Prix Meret-Oppenheim (2011)

References

1939 births 2022 deaths Architects from Zurich Swiss women architects Academic staff of ETH Zurich ETH Zurich alumni {{Switzerland-architect-stub