Gugger Joins Holcim Foundation Board

Words: Dan Kamys

Gugger Joins Holcim Foundation Board

Architect Harry Gugger has joined the management board of the Holcim Foundation. Gugger is full professor of architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and principal of Harry Gugger Studio based in Basel, Switzerland.

Previously, he was partner-in-charge at the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. Gugger has been a member of the Technical Competence Center of the Holcim Foundation at ETH Zurich for more than a year; was head of the Holcim Awards jury for Europe in 2008, and will be a member of the jury for North America in 2011. He replaces Marc Ang??lil, dean of architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, who has been a member of the both the management board and the TCC of the Holcim Foundation since their inception 2003.

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