She is winner of a Holcim Foundation Awards 2017 Acknowledgement for Europe for Radical Archaeology: a Roman settlement excavation center Augusta Raurica, Switzerland. The jury praised the project for its structural system that allows the building to adapt to new functions as the center’s needs change – a sustainability through adaptability.

Established in 2010, Karamuk Kuo Architects focuses on the intersection of spatial concepts with constructive technologies to approach architecture from its basis as a physical discipline. Karamuk Kuo Architects works on projects at a range of scales, from spatial installations and exhibitions to complex cultural projects. The office’s works include the International Sports Sciences Institute at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and the Augusta Raurica Archaeological Center in Kaiser Augst, Switzerland.

Jeannette Kuo received the competitive Maybeck Teaching Fellowship at the University of California (UC) Berkeley (2006) and has subsequently taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2011-14) and held a visiting professorship at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne). She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from UC Berkeley, a Master of Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard GSD, and a Master of Advanced Studies from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).