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Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St. Moritz
Construction began on May 27th, 2013 for the alteration of the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St. Moritz.
CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival, Turin
“MobiGlobe – A Film by Autostadt in Wolfsburg” will be screened at the 16th CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival (May 31st – June 5th 2013, Turin, Italy) as part of the Panorama Shorts section.
Lecture at the Latvian Art Academy
Hiromi Hosoya will give a lecture at the Latvian Art Academy on May 17, 2013.
Deauville Green Awards, France
The new edition of MobiGlobe films on sustainable mobility was screened at the Deauville Green Awards.
Holcim Forum Mumbai, India
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer were guests at the 4th International Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction in Mumbai, India.
Discussion with Riken Yamamoto and Kees Christiaanse
Hiromi Hosoya joined the discussion with Riken Yamamoto and Kees Christiaanse moderated by Hubertus Adam.
ZHdK Master Workshop 2013
Markus Schaefer and Isabelle Bentz were teaching a unit at the ZHdK Master Workshop 2013 “Mapping the city – design strategies in the urban space”.
Talk at ZHdK & University of Zurich
Markus Schaefer gave a talk at the Executive Masters program of the ZHdK and the University of Zurich invited by Marina Leuenberger.
McKinsey CTO conference 2013
Markus Schaefer gave the keynote lecture at the CTO conference 2013 at the McKinsey Alpine University in Kitzbühel on 21.3.2013.
CityTrackerX
Markus Schaefer became a co-founder, partner and head of research in the new, privately funded start-up company CityTrackerX AG.
Stadt neu bauen
Markus Schaefer moderates the second panel of the ETH colloquium “Stadt neu bauen – Ziele für die Stadt von morgen”.
Warum die Schweiz urbaner werden muss
Das Magazin organized a round table on the topic of urban development in Zürich.
2nd and 1st prizes Areal Warmbächliweg
Overall masterplan concept – 2nd prize
Exemplary building proposals – 1st prize
CH – Räumlicher Stand der Dinge
On 1.12.12 Markus Schaefer will participate at the ZHdK conference in the panel on infrastructure, planning and development.
Re-Form
Hiromi Hosoya will give a lecture in the series “Re-Form” at the Chair of Marc Angélil on November 26, 2012.
Suburbia – Quo vadis?
Markus Schaefer gave a lecture at the German Architecture Centre (Deutsches Architekturzentrum) at the event “Suburbia – Quo Vadis” organized by the Technical University of Dortmund and the University of Luxembourg.
Learning from Tokyo – Arch+ issue
The Learning from Tokyo symposium and exhibition resulted in an issue of ARCH+ which is being published on the occasion of the 13th Architectural Venice Biennale.
Summer Academy “From Suburb to City”
Markus Schaefer gave the final presentation at the Summer Academy “From Suburb to City” in Zürich.
Interview Learning from Tokyo
Homegate TV made an interview on the occasion of the Learning from Tokyo Exhibition.
Learning from Tokyo on Baunetz
Baunetz.de featured the Learning from Tokyo exhibition and symposium in their weekly special issue no. 263.
Lecture at GreenCity
Markus Schaefer presented “City Futures” at an event organized by Combosition, Bern, for Losinger Marazzi at the site of their new development “Green City” in Zürich Manegg.
Learning from Tokyo on Hochparterre
Hochparterre visited the symposium and exhibition. Read about their five learnings here.
Learning from Tokyo opening
«Learning from Tokyo» is a symposium and an exhibition in Zurich – organized by the «Learning from Tokyo»-Group in cooperation with Architekturforum Zürich – that showcases small scale housing projects by young, creative architecture offices in Japan.
Urban Reset
Interview by Angelus Eisinger and Jörg Seifert in “Urban Reset” published by Birkhäuser.
Lecture Helbling Symposium
Markus Schaefer gave a presentation “City Futures” at the “12. Helbling Banken Symposium” at the Baur au Lac in Zürich, Switzerland on January 25, 2012 organized by Helbling Corporate Finance.
Lecture at Joint Alumni Conference
Presentation at the dinner hosted by the Fulbright Alumni Association on the occasion of the Joint Alumni Conference (JAC). The conference will take place in Zürich on September 30 at the Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue.
Red Dot
For the project “Universum der Ozeane”.
Universum der Ozeane App
The project “Universum der Ozeane” or “Ocean Worlds” is now also available as an iPad App.
Deutscher Designpreis Award
Nomination for the project “Universum der Ozeane”.
Metropolitankonferenz Zürich
Hosoya Schaefer will show their analysis of the metropolitan region of Zürich at the Metropolitankonferenz, on May 6 at the Technopark Zürich. This meeting is organized by the association of cities, municipalities and cantons also called the Metropolitankonferenz.
Harvard University
Hiromi Hosoya concluded her advanced options studio at the Graduate School of Harvard University with a final review. The studio studied the site of the 1970 World Expo in Osaka, Japan and proposed strategies, masterplan proposals and architectural projects for its redevelopment.
Columbia University
Hosoya Schaefer Architects have been invited to give a presentation in the seminar on graphic narratives by Michael Rock at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning an Preservation.
Global PechaKucha Day – Inspire Japan
Hiromi Hosoya participated in the Global PechaKucha Day which was held at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University. The 20×20 presentations were focused on 3 main themes INSPIRE, JAPAN, RECOVERY.
Post2000Talks
Isabelle Bentz presented the Mobiglobe project at the Post2000Talks at the Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Rua Tenente Raul Cascais 1B, 1250-268 Lisboa, Portugal.
iF Communication Design Gold Award 2011
For the project “Universum der Ozeane” produced for and with ZDF.
Serious Games Award 2011
For the project “Universum der Ozeane”.
New Metabolism
Hiromi Hosoya is teaching an advanced options studio at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. The studio with the title “New Metabolism” is researching possibilities and generating projects for redeveloping the site of the World Exhibition 1970 in Osaka.
Baby Rems
Metropolis Magazine published an updated lineage of former collaborators of Rem Koolhaas.
Between Content and Context
Markus Schaefer and Hiromi Hosoya gave a lecture at the ETH Zürich on territorial planning and urban design.
Interview in Domus China
WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR CHINA’S ARCHITECTS
Markus Schaefer was interviewed by Brendan McGetrick for Domus China.
Annual congress of Slovene architects and Spatial planners
Markus Schaefer participated at the annual congress of Slovene architects and Spatial planners with a short presentation and participation at a panel discussion.
Digital Realities
Markus Schaefer is participating in the 3d symposium with the title “Human, Space and virtual Reality” at the Perception Lab of the University of Applied Sciences OWL on October 29, 2010 . The symposium invites professionals who driven by diverse motivations are working in the area of virtual spaces. The title of the lecture is “Digital Realities”.
Interview with Jürg Conzett
Hiromi Hosoya interviewed Jürg Conzett in Chur, Switzerland, 2010 for Journal of Architecture and Building Science published by Architectural Institute of Japan.
Switzerland 3.0
Markus Schaefer gave a presentation at the Switzerland 3.0 meeting at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich.
Skolkovo Innovation Center
Markus Schaefer is acting as an adviser for urban design and planning to Maxmakers, Zürich, who has been charged with preparing a development strategy for the new Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Sustainable Urban Patterns
Swiss National Science Foundation, National Research Programme NRP 65 – Joint Research Project “Sustainable Urban Patterns (SUPat)”
Oslo Association of Architects
Markus Schaefer gave a public lecture at the Chamber of Architects in Oslo. The lecture was organized by OAF (Oslo Association of Architects) in Oslo.
THE ESSENTIAL HOUSE
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Architectural Design Studio by Hiromi Hosoya, 2010
AnAn
Publications of the project “AnAn”, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2007
URBAN MUTATIONS ON THE EDGE
Markus Schaefer spoke in the lecture series, “Urban mutations on the edge – classifying emergent phenomena in developing territories” at the chair of Marc Angélil at ETH Zürich. Title of the lecture was “Re-”.
1st ex aequo – St. Moritz Station
“Sun Peak” has been chosen as the basis for further area development at St. Moritz station.
Airport Engadin
Publications of the project “Airport Engadin”, Samedan – St. Moritz, Switzerland, 2008
Partnership Šmartinska
Publications of the project: “Masterplan Partnership Smartinska”, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008
ZDF News Studio
Publications of the project “ZDF News Studio”, Mainz, Germany, 2009
The (im)perfect City
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Executive Campus HSG in the “St. Galler Forum für Baudienstleistungen entlang dem Lebenszyklus von Gebauden” on “The (im)perfect City”.
Balkanology – Architekturzentrum Wien
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit Šmartinska Partnership, a mater plan project in Ljubljana at the Architekturzentrum Wien, Austria.
Urban RESET
International Conference: “urban RESET. How to Activate Immanent Potentials of Urban Spaces” at the Hamburg HafenCity University. Markus Schaefer speaks about “Urban Planning between Form and Performance” in Block 4:” Economic Perspectives” moderated by Prof. Gernot Grabher. [Flyer]
“Re-”, Kornhausforum
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Kornhausforum in Bern in the lecture series “Schöne neue Welten” organized by the Bern University of Applied Science on “Re-”.
3RD PRIZE – COMPETITION AARBURG
For a station development in Aarburg.
MobiGlobe
Publications of the project: “MobiGlobe”, Autostadt, Wolfsburg, 2005
“Why Cities? – Mapping and Reality”
“Why Cities? – Mapping and Reality”, lecture on city planning at the chair of Information Architecture at the ETH Zürich. The lecture was taking place in the newly built Value Lab where now also a version of Mobiglobe produced in collaboration with Shiftcontrol is installed. [podcast: link]
Steel Construction Forum
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Stahlbauforum in Baden, Switzerland. [link, pdf]
Kunstareal München
Markus Schaefer speaks at a conference on the “Kunstareal München” in Münich, Germany. [link]
Die Perfekte Stadt
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer are featured in “Das Magazin” in the issue 2009/12 “Menschen, denen die Zukunft gehoert”.
Hypercore Office
Publications of the project “Hypercore Office”, Milan, Italy, 2007
Mobility and Immobility in the New Architecture Practice
Jilly Traganou’s interview with Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer on “Mobility and Immobility in the New Architecture Practice” in 2009.
Mapping Switzerland
Publications of the project: “Mapping Switzerland”, Hosoya Schaefer Architects, 2004
DRS4 Talk
Finn Canonica’s interview with Markus Schaefer on “Sustainable Systems: An Agenda for a Science of Cities” in 2008.
Urban Flux
Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: “Urban Flux”.
Balkanology – Swiss Architecture Museum
Hosoya Schaefer Architects is represented with the Šmartinska Partnership project and a text “Light Capital” by Markus Schaefer.
SCALE SHIFT
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Architectural Design Studio by Hiromi Hosoya, 2008
HOLCIM AWARDS 2008
Acknowledgment for the Hypercore Office building in Santa Giuila, Milan, Italy.
Floating House
Publications of the project “Floating House”, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2006
1st PRIZE – ŠMARTINSKA PARTNERSHIP
Hosoya Schaefer Architects win first prize in the “Šmartinska Partnership” competition.
vlow! conference
Markus Schaefer speaks at the vlow! conference in Bregenz, Austria.
Pecha Kucha Night
On invitiation from Moroso, Markus Schaefer speaks at the Pecha Kucha Night at the Furniture Fair in Milan, Italy.
Cities in Motion – Bucharest
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Research and Urban Design Studio by Markus Schaefer, 2008
Constructing Strategies
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Seminar on design process by Markus Schaefer, 2008
1st PRIZE – SUN GATE
Hosoya Schaefer Architects win the first prize in the competition for Engadin Airport in St.Moritz – Samedan, Switzerland.
CONTRACTWORLD AWARDS 2008
Special Award “New Generation” for the project ANAN in Wolfsburg.
Cities in Motion – Centrope
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Research and Urban Design Studio by Markus Schaefer, 2007/8
2007 Event Design Award Silver
Together with Ralph Appelbaum Ass., New York, and Henn Architekten, Munich, Hosoya Schaefer Architects won an Event Design Silver Award “Permanent Installation” for the Mobiglobe project at Autostadt, Wolfsburg.
Universität der Künste in Berlin
Hiromi Hosoya lectures at the Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany.
Design as research – research as design
Erhard An-He Kinzelbach’s interview with Markus Schaefer on “Design as Research – Research as Design” in 2007.
Bratislava, Slovakia
Hiromi Hosoya lectures at Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in the series ‘Next Life’. Title of the lecture is: ‘Maps, Scripts, Prototypes’. Interview with Erhard An-He Kinzelbach.
Technische Universität Wien
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Technical University of Vienna in a conference on strategic building for corporations. Title: ‘Crossmedia Architecture’
Freezone Basel
Markus Schaefer participates at a panel discussion at the Architecture Museum in Basel in the context of Freezone. The panel is organized by the ETH Studio Basel, headed by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and discusses city planning: ‘Wer plant die Stadt’. A video can be seen here.
Light Capital
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit ‘Light Capital: Urban Scripts for Ljubljana’ at the City Hall in Ljubljana.
Japan Now – Cornell University
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit projects at the Cornell University, Ithaca in New York, and to speak at the conference ‘Japan Now: Country Positions in Architecture’ at Cornell University and the Japan Society in New York.
Stuttgarter Medientage
Markus Schaefer speaks at the Stuttgarter Medientage in the section on Media and Architecture. The conference is taking place in the Römerkastell Bad Cannstatt on November 9 and 10.
Cornell University “Japan Now”
Hiromi Hosoya speaks at the conference ‘Japan Now: Country Positions in Architecture’ at Cornell University and the Japan Society in New York. The speakers are Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow-Wow), Mitsuhiro Kanada (ARUP), Hiromi Hosoya (Hosoya Schaefer Architects) and Taira Nishizawa (Taira Nishizawa Architects). Keynote speaker is Toyo Ito (Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects).
Cities in Motion
Hosoya Schaefer is part of a team awarded a grant by the Swiss Federal department for culture for the development of a documentary movie on mobility. The documentary will be produced by Condor Communications (producer: Patrick Müller) and Interscience Film/Gero von Boehm and coauthored by Chris Reuter and Markus Schaefer.
Der Totale Finanzplatz
Markus Schaefer is featured in Hochparterre, no.08 in 2006.
Scripting
Jennifer Sigler and Roemer van Toorn’s interview with Markus Schaefer on “Scripting: Light Capital, Ljubljana” in Hunch, 2006.
Venice Biennale – Projecting the City
Hosoya Schaefer is invited by the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Cities, Architecture and Society, curated by Richard Burdett.
Fast Forward Architecture
Markus Schaefer is featured in ‘Grenzgänger’ 9/06.
Kulturzone 06
Kulturzone 06 – 5 Tage 5 Themen, organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle and Messe Frankfurt. Markus Schaefer participated in a panel moderated by Volker Albus.
Volkswagen Global Conference
Presentation to Volkswagen’s group wide “Global Conference” in Wolfsburg with the presence of the entire upper management of the group.
The Architecture of Hospitals
Publications of the project: “The Architecture of Hospitals” at Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2006
“Architectures” Trendtag 2006
Trendtag 2006 at the Curio Haus in Hamburg organized by Trendbüro. Markus Schaefer talks about ‘Architectures’.
LIGHT CAPITAL
Berlage Institute, Rotterdam – Research and Urban Design Studio: “Light Capital – Urban Scripts for Ljubljana”, 2005
Architektur, Branding und die Entstehung neuer Bautypen
Architektur, Branding und die Entstehung neuer Bautypen (Graphik) [pdf] Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: “Architektur, Branding und die Entstehung neuer Bautypen”. in: Judit Solt, Marken Bauen, Archithese, March 2006, p.11
Symposium on Metropolitan Regions
International Symposium on Metropolitan Regions at the Technical University of Munich with a lecture by Markus Schaefer.
Guangzhou: City of Commodities
Guangzhou: City of Commodities [pdf] Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: “Guangzhou: City of Commodities”. in: Urban China, 07, 2006, p.112
Technology and Shopping
Interview with Markus Schaefer [pdf] Sara Manuelli: “Interview with Markus Schaefer of Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Zurich, Switzerland”, in Sara Manuelli (ed), Design for Shopping, Abbeville Press, New York, London 2006, p.36-43
B-Zone – Becoming Europe and Beyond
Hosoya Schaefer participated in the exhibition ‘B-Zone, Becoming Europe and Beyond’ at the Kunst-Werke Berlin curated by Anselm Franke with work by Ursula Bieman, Angela Melitopoulos and Lisa Parks.
The Aluminum House
Publications of the project: “The Aluminum House”, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2005 in collaboration with Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, Tokyo
Mapping Global Cities
Research and mapping project on global cities by Hosoya Schaefer Architects, 2005
Cornell University
Hiromi Hosoya lectures at Cornell University on ‘Recent Work’.
Education of the Architect
Markus Schaefer gave an introduction at the European Forum Alpbach to a panel on the education of the architect which was part of the Alpbach Architekturgespräche.
EASA 2005
Markus Schaefer gave a lecture at the 2005 EASA conference in Bergün, Switzerland.
Architecture of Hospitals
Markus Schaefer talks at the Conference The Architecture of Hospitals in the section of Aaron Betsky. The conference presents hospitals as major works of architecture and as buildings that have an impact on the healing processes of the patients as well as on the well-being of the hospital as an organization.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOSPITALS
Berlage Institute, Rotterdam – Research and Design Studio: “The Architecture of Hospitals”, 2004
Probebohrungen
Probebohrungen [pdf] Die Weltwoche, no.52/53, December 2004, p.84-91
Architekturzentrum Wien
Virtual dschungle 3, Shopping – The Precise Control over Seduction and Indulgence. Markus Schaefer is on the panel with Mariusz Demner, Michael Gassner, Florian Pollack, Georg Petrovic and Oliver Schürer.
De Intense Stad
Hosoya Schaefer Architects exhibit their project “Vondellaan te Groningen”.
Cluster “Kreativwirtschaft Zürich”
Markus Schaefer participates in the Workshop ‘Cluster Kreativwirtschaft’ at the ZHdK.
Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer participate on the panel Marketplaces – shopping malls at the Holcim Forum for Sustainable Construction.
ORF, Austria
Markus Schaefer is featured in ‘Gespräch am Samstag’ of the Radio Tirol.
Platform Gras
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer give a lecture at the Platform Gras in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Das Jahr 2004, Ein Blick auf die Welt
Das Jahr 2004, Ein Blick auf die Welt Das Magazin, no.49, December 2003, p.42-47
Wired Atlas
Wired Atlas [pdf] Schaefer, Markus, De Graaf, Renier, Deuthinger, Theo and de Ru, Nanne: “Atlas Space”. in: Wired, June 2003, p.118-131
