Harry Gugger is full professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland and also a partner at architectural firm Herzog and de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland.
Harry Gugger studied mechanical engineering from 1977 to 1979. From 1984 to 1989 he studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) with Flora Ruchat and at Columbia University, New York with Tadao Ando.
He received his degree in architecture at ETH Zurich in 1989. His collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron began in 1990 when he was their assistant at the summer school in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1991 he became a partner of the firm.
Harry Gugger was visiting professor at the College of Architecture and Building Technology at the Bauhaus- Universität Weimar (BUW), Germany in 1994 and taught at the EFPL in 2001.
His recent projects include the Eberswalde Technical School Library in Germany (1997-1999); Tate Modern in London (1998-2000); the Head Office for Prada in New York (2000-2002); and the Schaulager Basel Laurenz Foundation in Münchenstein, Switzerland (2000-2003).
Harry Gugger was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize for the Laban Center in London in 2003 and the Prix Meret Oppenheim in 2004.
[last updated 04-Feb-08]