Christian Inderbitzin

John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture

Design Critic in Architecture

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Christian Inderbitzin’s career is characterized by a close connection between practice, research and teaching. He studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1997 to 2004, completing his studies with an award-winning project under Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. He then worked for a short time at Meili Peter Architects in Zurich. Since 2004, together with Elli Mosayebi and Ron Edelaar, he has run the Zurich-based architecture studio Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin. Due to the numerous competition projects they have won, housing and urban development have a special significance in their work. From 2005 to 2010 he was a research assistant at the ETH Studio Basel, Institute of Contemporary Cities, with professors Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili and Pierre de Meuron. After a lectureship at the Graz University of Technology in 2011, he was a visiting professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2015 and 2016. In 2017, together with Elli Mosayebi and Ron Edelaar, he led the design studio “Ruins and Machines” at the ETH Zurich. Since 2020, he holds the professorship of City and Housing at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Housing and its current changes are an integral part of his practice and research.

The office has won several awards and prizes, including the Swiss Art Award for “Anthropomorphic Form” in 2019, the Prix Lignum 2024 for their school building in Chliriet, and Die Besten “Gold” for the “Performative House” in Zurich. In 2023 an a+u with projects of the office has been published. Christian Inderbitzin is the author or co-editor of numerous publications such as Signau Haus und Garten (Park Books 2019), Garden (Park Books 2017), Territory. On the Development of Landscape and City (Park Books 2016) or Belgrade. Formal/Informal (Scheidegger & Spiess 2011).

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