Bio

Jonathan Sergison is a founding partner of Sergison Bates architects. Established in 1996, the practice received the Heinrich Tessenow and the Erich Schelling Awards in 2006 and many of their projects have won prestigious awards. He is now based in Zurich and leads the Swiss office.

Jonathan has taught at the Architectural Association London, ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne, the Oslo School of Architecture and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, among others. Since 2008, he has been Professor of Design and Construction at the Accademia di Mendrisio, Switzerland, and in 2019 became Director of the newly established Istituto di Studi Urbani e del Paesaggio (ISUP, Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies)..

He is particularly interested in urban questions and the changing conditions of the contemporary European city and has addressed through writing, teaching and practice the role housing might play in this changing context.

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Name

Jonathan Sergison

Birth

1964

Degree

A.A. Dipl. Architectural Association

B.A. (Hons) Architecture Canterbury School of Architecture 1986

Teaching

Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio Università della Svizzera Italiana

Curatorship

Home/Away: 5 British architects build housing in Europe. British Pavilion, 11th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy. SBa contributed two projects inviting reflection on the cultural differences at play in building in the UK and abroad 2008

Five rooms. The practice of architecture. Retrospective exhibition at the House of Art, České Budějovice, Czeck Republic 2018

Care home, Huise-Zingem, Belgium exhibited at Design of the year Awards, Design Museum, London, UK 2012

The practice of architecture. Retrospective exhibition at Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland 2021

Teaching / Practice. Corderie dell'Arsenale, 16th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy. 2018

Gritty Brits: New London Architecture. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA and University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA Group exhibition showcasing emerging British architectural practices 2007

Feeling at home, Corderie dell’Arsenale, 13th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy. SBa curated exhibition of exemplary social housing projects in Europe 2012

Professional association

226854 Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architektenverein

Architectural firm

Sergison Bates Architects

Previous architectural firms

David Chipperfield Architects, London
Tony Fretton Architects, London

Links of interest

Sergison Bates architects

Reporting Entity

Sergison Bates architects

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