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Herzog & de Meuron

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Herzog & de Meuron
Architect
Switzerland

+Jacques Herzog
+Pierre de Meuron

born 1950 Basel,Switzerland


Herzog & de Meuron Architekten(HdeM) is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, closely paralleled another, with both attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.

They are perhaps best known for their conversion of the giant Bankside Power Station in London to the new home of the Tate Museum of Modern Art. Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron have been visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1994 and professors at ETH Zürich since 1999.


Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games
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HdeM's early works were reductivist pieces of modernity that registered on the same level as the minimalist art of Donald Judd. However, their recent work at Prada Tokyo, the Barcelona Forum Building and the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games, suggest a changing attitude.
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HdM’s commitment of articulation through materiality is a common thread through all their projects. Their formal gestures have generally progressed from the purist simplicity of rectangular forms to more complex and dynamic geometries. The architects often cite Joseph Beuys as an enduring artistic inspiration and collaborate with different artists on each architectural project. Their success can be attributed to their skills in revealing unfamiliar or unknown relationships by utilizing innovative materials.

by another29 | 2007-07-01 05:30 | □Architect

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