New to the Department!

Christian Inderbitzin has been standing in for the Chair of City and Housing since the start of the summer semester 2020


"The city and housing concern essential, indeed existential, areas of our everyday living environment: the public sphere of the city as a complex, socio-economic form of organization and the private sphere of housing as the most primal and primary human need." (Christian Inderbitzin)

Christian Inderbitzin was born in Kilchberg near Zurich in 1977. After graduating from the Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium Rämibühl in Zurich, he studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1997 to 2004. He graduated with an independent thesis at the ETH Studio Basel under Professors Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. After a brief stint at Meili, Peter Architekten, he worked as a research assistant at the ETH Studio under Professors Roger Diener and Marcel Meili from 2005 to 2015. In parallel, he founded his own architectural practice together with Elli Mosayebi and Ron Edelaar.

The broad activity of the office includes the design and realization of building projects, urban planning, exhibitions and publications. Housing is a focal point in research, teaching and practice. Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi and Christian Inderbitzin were admitted to the Bund Schweizer Architekten in 2014. Christian Inderbitzin taught at TU Graz in 2011, EPF Lausanne in 2015/2016, ETH Zurich in 2017/2018 together with Ron Edelaar and Elli Mosayebi, and TU Munich in 2019. In 2019, he was awarded the Swiss Art Award. Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin's projects have been widely published, awarded and exhibited.

More information about the practice and projects can be found at: http: //www.emi-architekten.ch

To the practice area City and Housing