MARCEL MEILI (Küsnacht, Switzerland) studied architecture at the ETH, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and formed Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten together with Markus Peter in 1987. Since the establishment in 2006 he also runs the office of Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten in Munich.
Marcel Meili has been a lecturer at the “Internationale Sommerakademie Berlin” in 1987 and in 1995 he won the award of the Biennale for Film and Architecture in Graz for the film "Il Girasole – A house near Verona“ produced in collaboration with the filmmaker Christoph Staub. Furthermore he has taught twice as a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and since 1999 he is a professor at ETH Zurich, where – together with Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Roger Diener, and Christian Schmid – he founded and runs ETH Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute.
Marcel Meili has been a lecturer at the “Internationale Sommerakademie Berlin” in 1987 and in 1995 he won the award of the Biennale for Film and Architecture in Graz for the film "Il Girasole – A house near Verona“ produced in collaboration with the filmmaker Christoph Staub. Furthermore he has taught twice as a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and since 1999 he is a professor at ETH Zurich, where – together with Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Roger Diener, and Christian Schmid – he founded and runs ETH Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute.
MARKUS PETER (Zurich, Switzerland) finished an apprenticeship as draftsman and studied at the Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany as a visiting student at the Department of Philosophy. 1984 Markus Peter received his diploma in architecture at the Technical Institute, Winterthur, Switzerland. In 1987 he formed Marcel Meili, Markus Peter Architekten together with Marcel Meili in Zurich, and established in 2006 a second office in Munchen, Germany.
Furthermore Markus Peter has worked as a teaching assistant for Prof. Mario Campi at the ETH, Zurich from 1886 to 1988 and in 1990 he was a teacher at the International Summer Academy (design) in Karlsruhe, Germany. From 1993 to 1995 he was Visiting Professor at the Chair of Design at the ETH Zurich and in 2002 Markus Peter turned Professor for Construction at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. His current research focuses on the work and impact of the German architect Bernhard Hans Henry Scharoun.
