We like places of authenticity. Fine tuned environmental, urban and programmatic differentiation enhances spatial identity. We value a building’s expressive powers, but also its need to answer the subtleties of the pragmatic. Fostering social exchange and interaction, our edifices should respond to both a communal and human scale. We are not intimidated by the global, but always start with the local. Shaped by wind, air, water and light, our buildings aim to attune with the cosmic cadences. We say yes to the analytic and measurable, but also appreciate the secretive aspects of architecture. We think the most wonderful things cannot be explained.

Charlotte von Moos + Florian Sauter Architects was founded in Basel in 2010.


Charlotte von Moos (Zurich, 1977) graduated in architecture from ETH Zurich. During her studies she worked in New York, Rome and Los Angeles. From 2005 to 2010 she was a collaborator of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, where she was in charge of the VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein. She has been a teaching assistant of Valerio Olgiati at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, and currently teaches at ETH Studio Basel – Institute of the Contemporary City with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.

Florian Sauter (Bregenz, 1978) graduated in architecture from ETH Zurich, where he also completed his PhD studies supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (“Painting the Sky Black: Aspects of Nature in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn”). He worked with Christian Kerez on a number of competitions, among them the Leutschenbach School in Zurich and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Since 2006 he is engaged as a research and teaching assistant at ETH Zurich, where he co-edited Natural Metaphor (2007) and Iconoclastia (2009) with Josep Lluis Mateo.

 

 

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