Christ & Gantenbein

Christ & Gantenbein Christ & Gantenbein is an architecture firm established in 1998 in Basel, Switzerland They are currently teaching at Harvard GSD.

After internationally acclaimed projects in London, Jalisco (Mexico) and Jinhua (China), Christ & Gantenbein continues to cement its reputation at home and abroad with numerous museum concepts—many winners in prestigious international competitions—as well as a broad range of private and public commissions. Among the designs most recently realised number an extension to Kunstmuseum Basel, the renov

ation of and extension to the Swiss National Museum in Zurich and, on the outskirts of Basel, an office and housing tower, and a R&D customer centre. Currently on the drawing board are housing schemes in France and Germany and an extension to the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne. Five associates and a team of 35 architects now staff the practice established by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein in 1998. Its work has been distinguished with the Swiss Steel Construction Award “Prix Acier” (2014), the “best architects 14” Award (2013), the “ar Award for Emerging Architecture” (2009) and two nominations for the “Iakov Chernikhov International Prize” (2010, 2012). Since graduating from the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in 1998, Christ and Gantenbein have maintained a balance between their profession and academic involvement. After lectureships inter alia at the ETH Studio Basel (2000–2005), the HGK Basel (2002–2003), the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (2004, 2006, 2009) and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (2008), they returned to the ETH Zurich (2010–2015).

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Over the past years, a broad range of private and public commissions has given shape to Christ & Gantenbein‘s growing body of work, encompassing different scales and scopes from individual residential extensions, institutional buildings, infrastructures and urban masterplans. Award-winning projects such as the renovations and extensions to the Kunstmuseum in Basel (2016) and the Swiss National Museum in Zurich (2016), as well as the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne (ongoing) have strengthen the office‘s expertise in the development of museum buildings. Housing schemes in Paris and Germany, a large-scale mixed-use neighborhood as well as the Lindt Chocolate Competence Centre in Switzerland are, among others, currently on the drawing board.

Founders Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, Partner Mona Farag, Associates Tabea Lachenmann, Anna Flückiger, Victoria Easton, Daniel Monheim and Jean Wagner, together with about 35 architects staff the practice established in 1998.

Since graduating from the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in 1998, Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein have maintained a balance between their professional activity and their academic involvement. They held lectureships inter alia at the ETH Studio Basel (2000–2005), the HGK Basel (2002–2003), the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio (2004, 2006, 2009), the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (2008), a well as the ETH Zurich (2010–2015). Research conducted in this latter period culminated in the meticulous exposition of more than 400 buildings in the two monographs Typology (Park Books, 2012, 2015). After teaching at Harvard GSD in 2016 and 2017, they are now Full-Professors of Architecture and Design at the ETH Zürich.