Commissioner

Urs Staub is trained as an art historian, archeologist, and theologian. He is head of the division Art and Design at the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. In this capacity, he is responsible for the advancement of art and design and is also in charge of the Swiss national art collections and art museums.

Curator

Reto Geiser studied architecture at ETH Zurich and Columbia University in New York. He taught as the 2003–2004 William Muschenheim Fellow at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In 2007 he was appointed as Marshall McLuhan Fellow at the University of Toronto. He is currently completing his doctoral dissertation at ETH Zurich, investigating the architectural and artistic relations between Switzerland and the United States by addressing issues of cultural identity and modernization in the work of Sigfried Giedion.
A founding principal of the collaborative design practice Research and Development, he is developing design strategies related to architecture, art, and visual culture. Recent projects include the award-winning design of Atlas of Novel Tectonics (2006).
In 2005 Geiser established STANDPUNKTE, a platform for promoting dialogue and critical exchange among emerging architects, designers, artists, and researchers who contribute to contemporary architecture culture.

Scientific Consultant

Angelus Eisinger is a cross-disciplinary historian of architecture, urban design and planning. Since 2008 he is professor for Metropolitan History and Culture at HafenCity University in Hamburg, Germany. Since 2003 he has been a private lecturer at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
He has pursued various studies on the history, methodology, and the effects of urbanism and urban planning. Eisinger has published widely. Among his books are Städte bauen: Städtebau und Stadtentwicklung in der Schweiz 1940—1970 (2004), and Die Stadt der Architekten (2005). He is also the co-editor of Urban Landscape Switzerland: Topology and Regional Development in Switzerland, Investigations and Case Studies (2003) and Building Zurich: Conceptual Urbanism (2007).
With his think tank “Perimeter Stadt”, Eisinger is consulting governmental and private institutions in planning competitions and developing conceptual work for planning studies.