ABSTRACT
Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron studied together at the Federal
Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) – a school noted in the context of this study
for having had Gottfried Semper as its founding dean. Their mutual architectural interests
inspired them to establish Herzog & de Meuron in 1978 in Basel, Switzerland. Over the past
decades, the firm has developed from the small office it once was into an international
powerhouse.
