Silvia Gmür (17 September 1939 – 24 January 2022) was a Swiss architect. After earning a degree from

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in 1964, she worked in Paris, London, and New York City with Mitchell-Giurgola from 1966 to 1972. That year, she founded her own agency in

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and partnered with

Livio Vacchini Livio Vacchini (February 27, 1933 – April 2, 2007) was a Swiss architect from Ticino. Life Livio Vacchini was born in Locarno. From 1953 to 1958 he studied architecture at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. After a stay in Stoc ...

from 1995 to 2001. Gmür was also a professor at ETH Zurich from 1979 to 1985. An exhibition of her projects was displayed at the

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in 2014, the same year in which a similar exhibition was held at the Galerie d'Architecture in Paris.

Awards

Progressive Architecture Award The Progressive Architecture Awards (P/A Awards) annually recognise risk-taking practitioners and seek to promote progress in the field of architecture. History The editors of ''Progressive Architecture'' magazine hosted the first Progressive Arch ...

(1977) * (2011)

References

1939 births 2022 deaths People from Zürich Swiss women architects {{Switzerland-architect-stub