Angela Deuber is a

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architect, born 1975 in Bad Kissingen. She studied at

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and has her office in Zurich. Deuber works on both regional and international projects, participates in exhibitions, and gives lectures and reviews. The architecture of Deuber is described as relating to the architectonic nature of space and experience, where everything except the most basic architectonic elements should be intentionally removed in order to express the building's sculptural presence.

Career

Deuber graduated in architecture from

in 2002. In 2006, she set up her office Angela Deuber Architects in Chur, which she relocated to Zurich in 2020. Deuber's work includes the conversion of a house built in the

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in Stuls,

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, a school building in

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, St. Gallen, and a private house in Thusis,

. In 2015, Deuber was awarded the arcVision Prize ''Women and Architecture'' which honors women with excellence and social responsibility in architecture. Of her win, the jury wrote:

"Angela Deuber is one of the youngest participants to have been nominated in this edition. In her work we have identified a new outlook for architecture; she successfully pinpoints important areas for structural research in construction and use of materials whilst encapsulating involvement and engagement of female architects in society".

In 2017, Deuber exhibited a fragmentary model of the

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at the 2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial. The model is solid and represents the space between four pillars connected to part of the sky. The same year, Deuber was the first woman to receive the ''Architekturpreis Beton'', which honors architecturally outstanding buildings in concrete. In 2018, Deuber was invited by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara to exhibit her work at the 16.

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

titled Freespace. In Deuber’s exhibition of eight projects, she showed how physical presence and spatial infinity are translated into architecture. She presented these projects in the form of analytiques – palimpsest-like drawings that merges and layers the varying scales of architectural drawing.

Academia

Between 2007 and 2010, Deuber taught at the

in Switzerland. In 2012 she became a lecturer at the

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, also in Switzerland. She is visiting professor at the

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, Switzerland, at the

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, Norway, and at the

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, Switzerland.

Buildings

* 2012: Medieval House, Stuls, Switzerland * 2013: Primary School,

, Switzerland with landscape architect Maurus Schifferli * 2019: Private House, Thusis, Switzerland * 2020: Office Space, Zurich, Switzerland * 2021: Atelier Space, Zurich, Switzerland

Proposals

* 2011: Swiss Chancellery,

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* 2012: Palazzo del Cinema di Locarno,

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

* 2012–2014 Multi-purpose hall in

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(1st prize) * 2013–2014: House in the

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, Isle of Harris,

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* 2016: Museum in a Garden,

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* 2019: Hochhaus Krismer-Areal,

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(1st prize)

Awards

* 2015: arcVision Prize * 2017: Architekturpreis Beton für Schulhaus Buechen, Staad * 2020: Swiss Architectural Award (nomination)

Exhibitions

* 2014: Young Swiss Public. London Metropolitan University. * 2015: Island: 8 Houses for the Isle of Harris.

The Lighthouse, Glasgow The Lighthouse in Glasgow is Scotland's Centre for Design and Architecture. It was opened as part of Glasgow's status as UK City of Architecture and Design in 1999. The Lighthouse is the renamed conversion of the former offices of the ''Glasg ...

. With works from

Raphael Zuber Raphael Zuber (born 5 June 1973 in Chur) is a Swiss architect. Biography Raphael Zuber studied at ETH Zurich until 2001 and practiced with Valerio Olgiati in Zurich. After graduating, he founded an architectural office in Chur. Zuber taught at ...

, Pascal Flammer, Angela Deuber, Johannes Norlander, Christ & Gantenbein, Neil Gillespie and Raumbureau. Curated by Samuel Penn and Penny Lewis. * 2016: Schweizweit.

Swiss Architecture Museum The S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (german: S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum) is an architecture museum in Basel, Switzerland. Through its program of temporary exhibitions and events, it contributes to international debates on architecture ...

* 2017: Make New History.

Chicago Architecture Biennial The Chicago Architecture Biennial is an international exhibition of architectural ideas, projects and displays. It seeks "to provide a platform for groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments that demonstrate how creativity and i ...

* 2018: 8 Works. Biennale Architettura * 2018: 44 Low-Resolution Houses.

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Publications

* Penn, Samuel. ''Island: 8 Houses for the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides''. AE Foundation 2014. ISBN 978-0993080401. * Deuber, Angela. ''8 Works.'' Self-published 2018. * Penn, Samuel. ''Accounts''. Pelinu Books 2019. ISBN 978-973-0-29787-4. * Angela Deuber Atelier (Ed.). ''Leaves''. Jungle Books 2023. ISBN 978-3-9525726-5-8.

References

External links

Angela Deuber Architects

Angela Deuber Architects - Instagram

Angela Deuber - Swiss Architectural Award
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