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Left The Royal College of Arts Battersea campus, designed by Herzog & de Meuron


Below, right Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium was built for the 2008 Summer Olympics and Paralympics


WITH PROJECTS RANGING from the Royal College of Art’s striking new campus in Battersea, to the stunning Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing, Herzog & de Meuron is one of the world’s most admired architectural practices. Founded in the Swiss city of Basel in 1978 by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, the Pritzker Prize-winning firm has helped shape cities across the globe, reimagining the nature of architecture through an innovative approach to materials and form. From high-rise apartments and hospitals to grand museums and concert halls, every one of its projects is underpinned by a belief that people deserve to experience a better way of life. Tis summer, the architects are showcasing a selection of their acclaimed projects at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (14 July – 15 October 2023), giving a behind the scenes look at the firm’s working methods, materials and technologies.


Born within a month of each other in the spring of 1950, Herzog and de Meuron have


known each other since childhood. Drawn to architecture from an early age, they both left Basel to study under Aldo Rossi at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and Zürich, from which they graduated in 1975. Early on in their practice they worked on private homes, including the eccentric 1979 Blue House in Oberwil, Switzerland, with its porthole windows and ultramarine brickwork, and the 1982 Stone House in Tavole, Italy, a spare, three-storey building clad with rubble. Te firm also designed Herzog’s own wooden house in the medieval centre of Basel, a modest structure reflecting the architect’s simple lifestyle. From these humble beginnings, Herzog & de Meuron has grown to become a world-famous architectural powerhouse with an international team of 600 and satellite offices in London, New York,


IWAN BAAN


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