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Pierre de Meuron
Pierre de Meuron established Herzog & de Meuron with Jacques Herzog in Basel in 1978 after studying at ETH Zürich.
Background & practice
Pierre de Meuron established Herzog & de Meuron with Jacques Herzog in Basel in 1978 after studying at ETH Zürich. Their shared career encompasses architecture, teaching and collaboration with artists. The Pritzker biography connects the practice's early buildings and storage projects with later work including Tate Modern and museums. It describes an office in which teams and discussions change from project to project rather than remain permanently fixed.
How to read the work
Treat architectural authorship as a process of dialogue, allowing changing project teams, artist collaborations and the specific demands of buildings to shape the work rather than assigning it to one author.
Co-founder and co-recipient documented by the joint biography.
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