Photo: Christian Beutler
Christian Kerez was born in 1962 in Maracaibo, Venezuela and obtained his degree in
architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. After extensive published work
in the field of architectural photography, he opened his own architectural office in Zurich,
Switzerland, in 1993. He has been appointed as a visiting professor in design and architecture
at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich since 2001, as assistant Professor since
2003 and as full professor for design and architecture since 2009. In 2012-13 he led the Kenzo
Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. He
designed the Swiss Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Biennale and is currently working on different
programs in various scales in France, Bahrain, the Czech Republic and China.