Staufer & Hasler Architekten   Frauenfeld, Suisse

They are considered among the most relevant Swiss architects of their generation. Astrid Staufer and Thomas Hasler have won numerous first prizes, notably for a complex of family houses in St. Gallen (2001), the SSR media center in Chur, and the Federal Administrative Court building in St. Gallen (2005).

They have also distinguished themselves through their theoretical research into architecture, which has resulted in numerous publications, and through the originality of a sophisticated, unconventional methodology that they have taught for more than ten years.

Their references — the enigmatic German architect Rudolf Schwarz (1897 – 1962) for Thomas Hasler, or the subversive Italian architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913– ) for Astrid Staufer — lead them to analyze post-modern architecture from a historical perspective, an understanding of which they see as a prerequisite for conceiving any new architectural language.

If one agrees that there have been very few true inventions in architecture, but considers the principle of creation to lie in the development of perception, then the potential is immense.

(Original text of 2009, machine translated in 2026.)