Peter Märkli

1972-77 - studied architecture at ETH Zurich
1978 - founded his own architectural practice in Zurich; he still collaborates with two other offices, but only for execution documentation. In the early days, his work was greatly influenced by sculptor Hans Josephsohn and architect Rudolf Olgiati.
1996-98 - visiting professor at ETH Zurich
1998-99 - visiting professor at EPF Lausanne
2002-15 - full professor at ETH Zurich, where together with Markus Peter led his own design institute
since 2013 - visiting professor at MARCH in Moscow

Among Swiss architects, he is considered an unusual figure. He runs a small office in an unspecified part of Zurich without computers or employees - just tables, chairs, a sculpture by Hans Josephson hanging on the wall, a bed, and a fax machine. He draws small sketches, churns out ideas, and then changes the scale. He creates large pencil-drawn views and small ink floor plans. Over twenty years, he has developed his own perspective on proportions; his studies of buildings are distantly rational in thinking. Märkli creates buildings from the perspective of a painter balancing with asymmetrical composition.