CV

Projects

Apartment Kasernestrasse, transformation, Zurich, 2023 - ongoing

Oil Mill, transformation, Lefkada (GR), 2021 - ongoing
technical execution with Eulàlia Martin

Groen van Prinstererstraat, transformation ground floor, Amsterdam, 2023 - ongoing
technical execution with Eulàlia Martin

Encounter Iced Sound, Pavilion and Sound Installation, Schiffbauplatz Zurich, February-March 2023
in collaboration with Ramon Landolt

Strito Studios, Nijmegen (NL), ongoing (prototype completed 2021)
client and partner strito dev., technical execution with Gerben Buijten

House WG, transformation and extension, Amsterdam, completed 2023

Glasfabriek, proposal for transformation, Schiedam (NL), 2022

Redevelopment Place du Marché Aigle, invited competition (MEP), commissioned by Municipality of Aigle, 2021
team Pauline Revaz, Kevin Merino, Olivier Company, Julien Eneichen, Rachel Mullon 

St. Pere Mitjà, transformation ground floor, first floor and entrance, Barcelona, completed 2021 technical execution with Eulàlia Martin

Three Pavilions, Place du Marché, Aigle, completed 2021
construction Guarnaccia Constructions, structural advice Álvaro Romera Martínez

House LS, design proposal, Ebe-Emael (BE), 2020

Textile factory, proposal for transformation, Balgach (CH), 2020

Apartment STS, transformation, Amsterdam, completed 2020

Evidence of the Absent, self-initiated, one-year Architect in Residency Kultufolger Zürich, 2019
Developed, shared and presented in a one-year residency, through a self-curated public program of eight public events with exhibitions, site-specific installations, five round table sessions and dialogues with five invited guests from different disciplines and cities in Europe.
invited guests Pavle Stamenovic (architect PhD, Belgrade), Emma Hoette (dancer, London), Ravian van den Hil (performance curator, Rotterdam), Elettra Carnelli (architect, Zürich), Ramon Landolt, and David Meier (musicians, Zürich)

Tandoor 16 / Marseille, kitchen and bar, transformation interior, facade and furniture/object design, Rotterdam, completed 2019

Urban Transformation as Event, self-initiated, in multiple cities, 2018
Interactive research project with 30 invited contributors from different disciplines and cities in Europe, on one topic we put ‘on the table’, on collective research, and on experimental publishing.
Curated and published throughout the year on ‘rr-dialogues.org’ and physical workshops in Rotterdam and Zürich. 

Pavilion La Dérivée, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2017 - 2021
The pavilion was built in a construction workshop together with the local community, and has been rebuild every summer.
in collaboration with Myriam Treiber and Joshua Pereira 

Simultaneity in Cities – an Interchangeable and Unrecognisable Built Envirnoment, self-initiated, in multiple cities, 2018
Interactive research project with 8 invited contributors from different disciplines and cities. 

The Image of Promises, self-initiated, in multiple cities, Belgrade Waterfront a.o., 2017

rotative research, self-initiated, 2016 - ongoing

Teaching

Visiting critic studio ‘Academiegebouw’, tutors Aura Luz Melis, Alba Tavares Vanhoutte, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design RAvB, June 2023

Mentors Graduation project ‘Rituals of Water’ by Sophie Dogterom, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design RAvB, 2022 - ongoing

Visiting critic, Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn, Interior Architecture, November 2022

Guest tutor, ArtEZ Zwolle Corpo-Real Interior Architecture MA, September 2022

Tutors wildcard studio, introducing our ongoing project ‘Learning from Venice – anticipating a constantly changing landscape’, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design, Spring Semester 2021-2022
invited guests Estel Figueras Saborit (meteorologist, Barcelona), Ramon Landolt (composor, musician, Zürich), Suze Milius (theatre director, Brussels), Alberto Potenghi (architect, Milan), Pavle Stamenovic (architect, Belgrade), Daniel Fuchs (architect, Zürich) 

Workshop tutors ‘Path of Play’, International Design Workshop Week IDW2022, University of Antwerp and Royal Academy of Fine Arts, March 2022

Guest critic Premier Studio Seebach - Sensing Space, Newrope ETH Zurich, Design in Dialogue Lab, 2021

Tutors ‘Architectural Positions - Practices’, TUDelft Faculty of Architecture, Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination, Msc1 Fall Semester 2021

Workshop tutors ‘New Constellations’, International Design Workshop Week IDW2021, University of Antwerp and Royal Academy of Fine Arts, 2021 

External Critic Graduation project ‘Eens een Eiland’ by Hidde van der Grind, Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst RAvB, 2021
Selection Archiprix Netherlands 2022

Visiting Critic Summer School Ticino ‘Re-activate the neighborhood’, Institute Internationale di Architettura i2a, 2020

Visiting Critic drempelgesprekken, Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst RAvB, 2020

Workshop tutors ‘Intercultural Bench’, International Design Workshop Week IDW2020, University of Antwerp, 2020

Workshop ‘Along the Line’, la Dérivée Festival, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2017
in collaboration with Myriam Treiber

Construction workshop ‘Pavilion La Dérivée’, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2017
in collaboration with Myriam Treiber and Joshua Pereira

Talks 

Encounter Iced Sound as part of Helsinki Design Week 2023, presentation and discussion on the collaboration and convergence of architecture and sound, 16.09.2023, 15h

Tracing Postmodernities, 6 questions Architecture Foundation, curated by Job Floris

Lecture at Estonian Academy of Arts Tallinn, November 2022

Lecture at ArtEZ Zwolle Corpo-Real Interior Architecture MA, September 2022

On-Site Explorations, lecture on our method, as part of the Stramoenia Research Seminar, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, May 2022
curated by Marianna Ascolese

Urban gestures, lecture at 6th Summer School Ticino ‘Re-build common spaces’. The lecture took place at the Cima Norma Fabbrica del Cioccolato in Dangio and virtually in Taiwan, 2021

rotative studio x transformation, lecture at Summer School Ticino (i2a), 2020

rr-dialogues.org, Nische Zürich, 2018

Zürich, les cooperatives reinventent le logement social/Genossenschafts, lecture and round tabel at cultural festival La Dérivée, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2017
in collaboration with Myriam Treiber, invited guest Martin Lepoutre

Waterfronts – Cities worldwide are rediscovering and reengaging with the water’s edge, lecture at cultural festival La Dérivée, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2017

Exhibitions

Conditions for Growth, One of 100 selected proposals for the ‘Ministry of Make’ (/Ministerie van Maak, an initiative by ZUS, MANN and IABR), International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2022 

Space in-between
London Festival of Architecture, 2020
‘Reading Room’ by Itinerant Office, New Generations Festival, 2021-2023

Spatial Installations

Fragment Encounter Iced Sound, Spatial and Sound Installation and Sonic Route
with Ramon Landolt
MODEL Architectures Festival Barcelona, 2023
curated by Eva Franch, Anna Ramos and Eduard Fernandez

Visually Walking Towards, site-specific installation at the former prison Le Modelo
Architecture Week Barcelona, 2018
curated by Anna Ramos - Fundació Mies van der Rohe 

Along the Line, urban installation and event series on the installation
La Derivée festival II, Yverdon-les-Bains, 2018
curated with Margaux Genton, invited artists Collectif Necto, Sophie le Meillour, Simon Rouiller, Ramon Landolt, Tapiwa Svovse

Choreography of perspectives, site-specific installation, de Aanschouw Rotterdam (846), 2017 curated by Catja Edens 

Publications

Materialisation of Intentions (working title), 2021 - ongoing 

self-published, part of our exhibition for the London Festival of Architecture LFA, 2020
graphic design Studio Nomad (CH)

Imagine the Volume, self-published, 2019
presented at Volumes Independent Art Publishing Fair Zürich

Drawings on-site, self-published, 2019
presented at Volumes Independent Art Publishing Fair Zürich

Urban Transformation as Event/rr.dialogues.org - ARCHIVE, self-published, 2018
in collaboration with Pavle Stamenovic 

Distinctions

Arc Award 2023, Three Pavilions shortlisted in category ‘Spezialobjekte’, Schweizer Baudokumentation

Next Step Program, BNA, Netherlands, 2022

ARC20 Young Talent Award Nomination, 2020 

Unfair Architect Award Longlist, 2019 

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Alexandra Sonnemans (1986) MSc TU Delft Faculty of Architecture (2011), TU Berlin (2009-2010).
International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam IABR–DOWN TO EARTH 2020-2021 (chief curator assistant), publication Designing for the endgame/Ontwerpen voor het eindspel - IABR, nai010 publishers (assistant editor) to be published Sept 2023.
Stichting Beeldmix (board member), Operator Radio (editorial board culture radio), TENT Platform for Contemporary Art, VMX architects, ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] Rotterdam (architect, urban designer, project leader), Blauwdruk Stedenbouw Antwerp (urban designer, project leader).

Caterina Viguera (1986) MSc ETSAB Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona (2011), TU Berlin (2009-2010), MAS Urban Design ETH Zürich (2015).
Co-founder and architect Cooperative/Genossenschaft Stadtufer Lichtensteig, Switzerland: transformation of a 8,000 m² factory into living and working spaces.
Storefront for Art and Architecture New York (chief curator assistant), Vito Acconci Studio New York (architect),  Ammann Albers Stadtwerke Zürich (architect, urban designer, project leader), AMA Archive Margarita Andreu (co-director). She has also contributed to: Venice Biennale 2016 - (Egyptian Pavilion) / Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture 2016 / Arc en rêve centre Bordeaux 2016.


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2023