| 1950 |
Born in Basel, Switzerland |
| 1970 - 1975 |
Studies in Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Chair of Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli |
| 1975 |
Awarded Degree in Architecture from the ETH Zurich |
| 1977 |
Assistant to Prof. Dolf Schnebli |
| 1978 |
Partnership with Jacques Herzog |
| 1989, since 1994 |
Visiting Professor at Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA, USA |
| since 1999 |
Professorship at the ETH Zurich, ETH Studio Basel |
| 2001 |
Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize |
| since 2002 |
Cofounder ETH Studio Basel - Contemporary City Institute |
