Silvia Gmür Explained

Silvia Gmür
Birth Date:	17 September 1939
Birth Place:	Zürich, Switzerland
Death Place:	Riehen, Switzerland
Nationality:	Swiss
Occupation:	Architect
Education:	ETH Zurich

Silvia Gmür (17 September 1939 – 24 January 2022) was a Swiss architect.^[1]

After earning a degree from ETH Zurich in 1964, she worked in Paris, London, and New York City with Mitchell-Giurgola from 1966 to 1972.^[2] That year, she founded her own agency in Basel and partnered with Livio Vacchini from 1995 to 2001.^[2]

Gmür was also a professor at ETH Zurich from 1979 to 1985.^[2]

An exhibition of her projects was displayed at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2014,^[3] the same year in which a similar exhibition was held at the Galerie d'Architecture in Paris.^[4]

Buildings

• 1977–1979: House and Atelierhouse Gmür, Riehen with ingenieure Pierre Beurret

Together with Livio Vacchini:

• 1995–1998: Three Houses, Beinwil am See
• 1993–2000: Bedhouse D – Cantonal hospital Grisons, Chur-Masans
• 2002: University Hospital Basel, extension Klinikum 1 west

Together with Reto Gmür:

• 2012: Cantonal hospital St. Gallen, institute for Rechtsmedizin and Pathologie
• 2021: Citizens' Hospital Solothurn
• since 2021: Charité Center, Berlin with landscape architect Maurus Schifferli
• since 2021: Extension Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin with landscape architect Maurus Schifferli

Awards

• Progressive Architecture Award (1977)
• Prix Meret-Oppenheim (2011)^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trauerfall Gmür-Maglia Silvia Maria. Todesanzeigenportal.ch. German.
2. News: Windhöfel. Lutz. 17 November 2009. Dialogfähigkeit. German. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 21 February 2022.
3. Web site: Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür Architekten. Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
4. Web site: 1 hôpital est une maison d'homme. La Galerie d'Architecture. French.
5. Web site: Lauréates et lauréats - Prix Meret Oppenheim. Office fédéral de la culture OFC. French. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170905184322/http://www.bak.admin.ch/kulturschaffen/04163/04171/04172/index.html?lang=fr. 5 September 2017.