Silvia Gmür
Silvia Gmür (17 September 1939 – 24 January 2022) was a Swiss architect. After earning a degree from ETH Zurich in 1964, she worked in Paris, London, and New York City with Mitchell-Giurgola from 1966 to 1972. That year, she founded her own agency in Basel and partnered with Livio Vacchini from 1995 to 2001.
Also recorded as Silvia Gmuer
Silvia Gmür
- Name
- Silvia Gmür
- Born
- 17 September 1939
- Birthplace
- Zürich, Switzerland
- Died
- 24 January 2022
- Place of death
- Riehen, Switzerland
- Occupation
- Architect
- Education
- ETH Zurich
- Nationality
- Switzerland
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Silvia Gmür (17 September 1939 – 24 January 2022) was a Swiss architect. After earning a degree from ETH Zurich in 1964, she worked in Paris, London, and New York City with Mitchell-Giurgola from 1966 to 1972. That year, she founded her own agency in Basel and partnered with Livio Vacchini from 1995 to 2001.
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Silvia Gmür (1939–2022) was an architect, of Swiss nationality. The architect was born in Zurich and died in Riehen. Silvia Gmür was educated at ETH Zurich.
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Gmür was also a professor at ETH Zurich from 1979 to 1985. An exhibition of her projects was displayed at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2014, the same year in which a similar exhibition was held at the Galerie d'Architecture in Paris.
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• Name — Silvia Gmür • Born — 17 September 1939 • Birthplace — Zürich, Switzerland • Died — 24 January 2022 • Place of death — Riehen, Switzerland • Occupation — Architect • Education — ETH Zurich
Buildings
Buildings
• 1977–1979: House and Atelierhouse Gmür, Riehen with ingenieure Pierre Beurret Together with Livio Vacchini: • 1995–1998: Three Houses, Beinwil am See • 1993–2000: Bedhouse D – Cantonal hospital Grisons, Chur-Masans • 2002: University Hospital Basel, extension Klinikum 1 west Together with Reto Gmür: • 2012: Cantonal hospital St. Gallen, institute for Rechtsmedizin and Pathologie • 2021: Citizens' Hospital Solothurn • since 2021: Charité Center, Berlin with landscape architect Maurus Schifferli • since 2021: Extension Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin with landscape architect Maurus Schifferli
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1939
Silvia Gmür was born on 17 November 1939.
2022
Silvia Gmür died on 22 January 2022.
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Awards
• Progressive Architecture Award (1977) • Prix Meret-Oppenheim (2011)
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- 1.Trauerfall Gmür-Maglia Silvia Maria. Todesanzeigenportal.ch.
- 2.Windhöfel, Lutz. Dialogfähigkeit. Neue Zürcher Zeitung. 17 November 2009.
- 3.Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür Architekten. Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
- 4.1 hôpital est une maison d'homme. La Galerie d'Architecture.
- 5.Lauréates et lauréats - Prix Meret Oppenheim. Office fédéral de la culture OFC.
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