Herzog & de Meuron

Swiss architects with a studio founded in Basel in 1978

Herzog & de Meuron is an architectural firm founded in Basel in 1978 by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog (Basel, 19 April 1950) and Pierre de Meuron (Basel, 8 May 1950), winners of the Pritzker Prize in 2001.

The two architects graduated in 1975 from ETH Zurich and Harvard University. Their early works were inspired by the minimalism of the artist Donald Judd. The central theme in all their projects is the external envelope of buildings.

Their fame is mainly due to the conversion of the Bankside electricity station in London into the Tate Modern. In 2001 the two won the Pritzker Prize. In 2002 they designed the Allianz Arena with a very large underground car park, the largest in Europe, the facade covering is made of recyclable material. The original studio is located in Basel, today a destination for architectural trips given the density of buildings, including the Rehabilitation Centre (2002), the Zentralstellwerk – railway traffic sorting centre (1999), the Schaulager – art storage centre (2003), the Sportanlage Pfaffenholz – stadium (1992-93). He designed for the Slow Food association, their pavilion hosted in the Biodiversity Square of Expo Milano 2015.
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