We like places of authenticity. Fine tuned environmental urban and programmatic differentiation enhances spatial identity. We value a building's expressive powers, but also its need to answer the subtleties of the pragmatic. Fostering social exchange and interaction, our edifices should respond to both a communal and human scale. Shaped by wind, air, water and light, our buildings aim to attune with the cosmic cadences and manifest their poetic energies. We say yes to the analytic and measurable, but also respect the more meta-physical aspects of architecture.

 

 

Sauter von Moos Architekten ETH SIA GmbH was founded in Basel in 2010.

Charlotte von Moos (Zurich, 1977) Dipl. Arch. ETH, was a collaborator of Herzog & de Meuron in Basel from 2005 to 2010, where she was in charge of the VitraHaus in Weil am Rhein. She has been a teaching assistant of Valerio Olgiati at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, and currently teaches at ETH Studio Basel – Institute of the Contemporary City with Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.

Florian Sauter (Bregenz, 1978) Dipl. Arch. ETH, Dr. sc. ETH, worked with Christian Kerez among others on the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, and with Heinrich Degelo on the design of the University Library in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 2011/2 he acted as academic advisor for the exhibition Louis Kahn - The Power of Architecture, and currently teaches with Josep Lluis Mateo at ETH Zurich. 

 

 

Texts / Interviews

 

‘Cultural Space for Architectural Poetry’, in Architects + Artisans, March 2013.

‘When Light Paints’, in Expression (Zurich: Park Books, 2012).

‘Mettre la nature en oeuvre’, in Louis Kahn - The Power of Architecture (Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, 2012).

'Global Style', in Digital Architectural Papers, Nr. 5, October 2011.

‘Longing for Solitude’ and 'Inner Space', in Iconoclastia (Barcelona: Actar, 2009).

‘The Sun also Shines Today’, in Natural Metaphor (Barcelona: Actar, 2007).