Portrait EM2N
We aim to produce architecture that is powerful and personal, architecture with the capability of developing its own character. As a result our projects may polarize the public, which is fine with us. One may love or hate our architecture, but one should never be left indifferent.
As post-idealistic children of the ’68 generation, we do not recognise a single great truth, but find in the fractures of reality a ground in which to anchor architecture. This is the radicalism that we derived from Venturi’s ‘both-and’ principle. But both-and should not be mistaken as being arbitrary or indecisive. Behind and within it lies the problematic recognition of equitable values, and a longing for an architecture that renounces all dogma, opening itself to the freedom of possibility.
EM2N with Mathias Müller (*1966) and Daniel Niggli (*1970) has 60 collaborators working on construction and competition projects in Switzerland and abroad. In addition
to a number of awards including ‘bestarchitects’, ‘Umsicht-Regards-Sguardi’, the ‘Auszeichnung Guter Bauten’ from the City of Zurich, the Canton of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft, they
received the ‘Swiss Art Awards’ in Architecture. Mathias Müller and Daniel Niggli were visiting professors at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne,
as well as in Zurich. Daniel Niggli is a member of the construction commitee in Berlin and Zurich.
Their important recent construction projects include the Culture and Congress Centre Thun (2011), ‘Im Viadukt’ – Refurbishment of the viaduct arches in Zurich (2010),
the Hotel City Garden in Zug (2009) and the expansion of the Public Record Office Basel-Landschaft in Liestal (2007). Planning and construction work has
started on, among other projects, the new campus for the University of Applied Sciences and Arts at the Toni Site in Zurich (since 2006),
the Swiss Film Archive in Penthaz (since 2007) as well as buildings in Ordos, Paris and Prague.
EM2N is managed by Mathias Müller and Daniel Niggli together with their associates Bernd Druffel (*1972), Marc Holle (*1973), Fabian Hörmann (*1978), Gerry Schwyter
(*1975) and Christof Zollinger (*1973).
EM2N | Mathias Müller | Daniel Niggli
Architekten AG | ETH | SIA | BSA
Josefstrasse 92
CH–8005 Zürich
T +41 44 215 60 10
F +41 44 215 60 11
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http://www.em2n.ch
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Media enquiries
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