El Croquis: Christian Kerez

Revised joint edition of issues 145 and 182 dedicated to Christian Kerez. It includes projects developed by the Venezuelan-born architect from 1992 to 2015.

Christian Kerez was born in 1962 in Maracaibo, Venezuela, and graduated as an architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. After dedicating himself to publishing his work in the field of architectural photography, he opened his own architectural studio in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1993. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Design and Architecture at ETH Zurich in 2001, Assistant Professor in 2003 and Full Professor of Design and Architecture in 2009. In 2012-2013 he held the Kenzo Tange Chair of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. He is currently working in various programs of different scales in France, Czech Republic, Brazil and China.