Herzog & de Meuron

Herzog & de Meuron Basel Ltd. is a Swiss architecture firm headquartered in Basel (Switzerland), founded by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.

In addition to their architectural practice, Herzog and de Meuron served as professors at ETH Zürich from 1999 to 2018, where they co-founded ETH Studio Basel in 1999 alongside architects Roger Diener and Marcel Meili within the department of architecture. They have also held teaching roles as visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with Jacques Herzog serving as a visiting tutor at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.

History
Herzog & de Meuron was founded in Basel in 1978. In 2001, Herzog & de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Prize, the highest honor in architecture. Jury chairman J. Carter Brown commented, "One is hard put to think of any architects in history that have addressed the integument of architecture with greater imagination and virtuosity", in reference to HdM's use of exterior materials and treatments, such as silkscreened glass. Architecture critic and Pritzker juror Ada Louise Huxtable summarized HdM's approach stating, "They refine the traditions of modernism to elemental simplicity while transforming materials and surfaces through the exploration of new treatments and techniques." The firm was listed as "one of the most admired design companies in the world" in The New York Times Magazine in 2006."

As part of the urban development project known as HafenCity, the Hamburg government approved the construction of the Elbe Philharmonic designed by Herzog & de Meuron. On a former warehouse in the port of Hamburg, rises a huge glass sail that houses a large concert hall, offices, and a hotel, while the former warehouse is used as a parking structure. The inaugural concert was held in January 2017.

Since 2022

 * Kinderspital Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
 * New North Zealand Hospital, Hillerød, Denmark
 * UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center, Parnassus Heights, San Francisco, USA
 * HORTUS, Allschwil, Basel, Switzerland
 * University Hospital Basel, Perimeter B, Basel, Switzerland
 * Sixth & Blanco, Austin, Texas, USA
 * Ronquoz 21, Sion, Switzerland
 * Autobahnkirche, Andeer, Switzerland
 * Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
 * Powerhouse Arts, Brooklyn, USA
 * Lombard Odier New Headquarters, Bellevue, Switzerland
 * Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
 * Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
 * Tour Triangle, Paris, France
 * Calder Gardens, Philadelphia, USA

Completed

 * 1988 Stone House, Tavole, Italy
 * 1992 Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
 * 1998 Dominus Winery, Napa Valley, California
 * 1999 Swiss Federal Railways Signal Box, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2000 Tate Modern, Bankside, London, UK together with Günther Vogt
 * 2002 REHAB Clinic for Neurorehabilitation and Paraplegiology, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2002 St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2003 Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Münchenstein, Switzerland
 * WalkerArt.jpg Duisburg - Museum Küppersmühle für moderne Kunst (49450279141).jpg Prada Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
 * 2003 Laban Dance Centre, Deptford Creek, London, UK
 * 2004 Informations-, Kommunikations- und Medienzentrum Cottbus, Cottbus, Germany
 * 2004 Forum Building, Barcelona (since 2011 hosts the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona)
 * 2005 Allianz Arena football stadium, Munich together with Günther Vogt
 * 2005 Walker Art Center expansion, Minneapolis, Minnesota
 * 2005 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
 * 2007 40 Bond Street, New York City, US
 * 2008 Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
 * 2008 CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid, Spain
 * 2008 Beijing National Stadium, Beijing, China
 * 2009 VitraHaus, Weil am Rhein, Germany
 * 2010 Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2010 1111 Lincoln Road parking garage, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
 * 2012 Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York
 * 2012 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, UK
 * 2013 Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2013 Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida
 * 2014 Ricola Krauterzentrum, Laufen, Switzerland
 * 2015 Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, France
 * 2015 BBVA headquarters, Madrid, Spain
 * 2015 Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, France
 * 2015 Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, UK
 * 2015 Roche Tower Basel, Switzerland
 * 2016 Schaudepot, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
 * 2016 Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Germany
 * 2016 Feltrinelli Porta Volta, Milan, Italy
 * 2016 Tate Modern 2, Bankside, London
 * 2017 Beirut Terraces, Beirut, Lebanon
 * 2017 56 Leonard Street, New York City, USA
 * 2018 Tai Kwun, Hong Kong – with Purcell and Rocco Design
 * 2020 UNIQLO Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
 * 2020 REHAB Extension, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2020 Extension of the Stadtcasino Basel, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2021 M+, Hong Kong – with Farrells
 * 2021 AstraZeneca Discovery Centre (DISC), Cambridge, UK
 * 2021 MKM Museum Küppersmühle, Extension, Duisburg, Germany
 * 2021 ST International HQ and SONGEUN Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
 * 2022 Royal College of Art, London, UK
 * 2022 Roche Tower 2, Basel, Switzerland
 * 2023 National Library of Israel, Jerusalem

Exhibitions

 * 1 October – 20 November 1988: Architektur Denkform, Architekturmuseum Basel, Switzerland
 * 26 January – 24 March 1991: Contribution to Berlin Morgen. Ideen für das Hery Einer Grosstadt Berlin Zentrum at Deutsches Architektur-Museum, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
 * 1 March – 7 April 1991: Architektur von Herzog de Meuron im Kunstverein München at Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
 * 26 May − 2 July 1994: Five Competition Entries at Swiss Institute, New York, New York, USA
 * 12 October – 11 December 1994: Contribution to Bienal Internacional de Arte De São Paulo 22. Swiss Pavilion Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
 * 8 March – 22 May 1995: Herzog & de Meuron, Une Exposition, conceived by Rémy Zaugg at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
 * 22 November 1996 – 9 January 1997: Architectures of Herzog & de Meuron. Portraits by Thomas Ruff at Peter Blum Gallery Soho, New York City, USA and 22 November 1996 –9 January 1997 at TN Probe Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan
 * 31 May – 3 July 1997: Herzog & de Meuron. Zeischnungen Drawings at Peter Blum Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
 * 1 July – 5 October 1999: The Un-Private House at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
 * 12 May – 26 November 2000: Herzog & de Meuron – 11 Stations at Tate Modern opening exhibition curated by Theodora Vischer in collaboration with Käthe Walserby at Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London
 * 4 November 2000 – 11 February 2001: In Process curated by Philip Vergne, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
 * 2 March – 8 April 2001: Works in Progress. Projects by Herzog & de Meuron and by Rem Koolhaas /OMA at Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
 * 23 October 2002 – 6 April 2003: Herzog & de Meuron. Archéologie de l'Imaginaire, curated by Philip Ursprung, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, Canada
 * 2004–2006 (multiple showings): An Exhibition by Schaulager Basel and Herzog & de Meuron at Schaulager Basel, Münchenstein, Switzerland
 * 3 June – 5 August 2007: Studio as Muse. Design for the New Parrish at Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
 * 10 January – 15 March 2008: Contribution to Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture: Refabricating City at Old Central Police Station Compound, Hong Kong, China
 * 2 September – 23 October 2011: Design is Design is not Design curated by Ai Weiwei and Seung H-Sang, Gwangju Design Biennale, South Korea
 * 19 June – 3 November 2013: Stadium Model by Herzog & de Meuron, Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux. Arc en Rêve, Centre d'Architecture, Bordeaux, France.
 * 10 January – 9 February 2014: Building M+: The Museum and Architecture Collection at ArtisTree, Hong Kong
 * 14 – 22 June 2014: 14 Rooms curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist. A Collaboration between Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel and Theater Basel at Hall 3, Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
 * 31 October 2014 – 4 January 2015: Triangle, Paris at Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
 * 2016: Rémy Zaugg. The Question of Perception at Museum für Gegenwartkunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
 * 24 January – 20 June 2016: Agir, Contempler, Inaugural exhibition conceived by Jean-François Chevrier with Herzog & de Meuron at Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France
 * 20 March – 4 October 2016: Material Future: The Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron and the Vancouver Art Gallery at Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
 * 10 September 2016 – 13 February 2017: Building Optimism: Public Space in South America at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
 * 10 February – 1 May 2017: Elbphilharmonie Revisited at Hall for Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
 * 13 June – 20 August 2017: Summer Exhibition 2017 at Architecture Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
 * Project 2017–2018; Show 14 January 2018: Language Restraint: Herzog & de Meuron for Prada. Collection Items for Prada Invites 2018, Milan, Italy
 * Project 2018; Show 4 May 2018: Herzog & de Meuron for Prada. Showspace for Prada Resort 2019 at Piano Factory, New York, New York, USA
 * 30 September – 20 November 2021: Exploring Songeun Art Space at ST International HQ and SONGEUN Art Space, Seoul, Korea
 * 24 October 2022 – 1 April 2023: Lusail Museum: Tales of a Connected World at Lusail Museum, Qatar
 * 14 July – 15 October 2023: Herzog & de Meuron at Royal Academy of Arts, London


 * Contributions to the Venice Biennale


 * 1996 No. 6 Sensing the Future. The Architect as Seismograph: Contribution to the Venice Biennale International Pavilion at Giardini, Venice, Italy
 * 2008 No. 11 Architecture Beyond Building: Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. Installation Piece at Italian Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, Italy
 * 2012 No. 13 Common Ground: Herzog & de Meuron. Elbphilharmonie – The construction site as a common ground of diverging interests at Arsenale Corderie, Venice, Italy
 * 2014 No. 14 Fundamentals: Lucius Burckhardt and Cedric Price – A Stroll Through A Fun Palace, Swiss Pavilion, Venice, Italy

Complete works (Birkhäuser)
Source:


 * Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron: Herzog & de Meuron 2002–2004. The Complete Works. Volume 5. Birkhäuser, 2020.
 * Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron: Herzog & de Meuron 2005–2007. The Complete Works. Volume 6. Birkhäuser, 2018.
 * Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron: Herzog & de Meuron 1997–2001. The Complete Works. Volume 4. Birkhäuser, 2008.
 * Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron: Herzog & de Meuron 1992–1996. The Complete Works. Volume 3. Birkhäuser, 2000.
 * Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron: Herzog & de Meuron 1989–1991. The Complete Works. Volume 2. Birkhäuser, 2005.
 * Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron: Herzog & de Meuron 1978–1988. The Complete Works. Volume 1. Birkhäuser, 1997.

Portfolios (special editions on Herzog & de Meuron)

 * Luis Fernández-Galiano (Ed.): Herzog & de Meuron 2003–2019. (Vol.2), Madrid, Arquitectura Viva SL, 12.2019.
 * Luis Fernández-Galiano (Ed.): Herzog & de Meuron 1978–2002. (Vol.1) Madrid, Arquitectura Viva SL, 12.2019.
 * Luis Fernández-Galiano (Ed.): Arquitectura Viva Monografias. Herzog & de Meuron 2013–2017. Vol. No. 191–192, Madrid, Arquitectura Viva SL, 12.2016.
 * Luis Fernández-Galiano (Ed.): Arquitectura Viva Monografías. Herzog & de Meuron 2005–2013. Vol. No. 157/158, Madrid, Arquitectura Viva SL, 09.2012.
 * Luis Fernández-Galiano (Ed.): Arquitectura Viva Monografías. Herzog & de Meuron 2000–2005. Vol. No. 114, Madrid, Arquitectura Viva, 07.2005.
 * Luis Fernández-Galiano (Ed.): Arquitectura Viva. Herzog & de Meuron 1978–2007. 2nd rev. ed. Madrid, Arquitectura Viva, 2007.
 * Luis Fernández-Galiano (Ed.): Arquitectura Viva. Herzog & de Meuron. 1980–2000. Vol. No. 77, Madrid, Arquitectura Viva, 07.1999.
 * Dino Simonett: Herzog & de Meuron 001–500. Index of the Work of Herzog & de Meuron 1978–2019. Edited by: Dino Simonett, Herzog & de Meuron. Basel, Simonett & Baer, 2019
 * Fernando Márquez Cecilia; Richard Levene (Eds.): El Croquis. Herzog & de Meuron 2005–2010. Programme, Monument, Landscape. Vol. No. 152/153, Madrid, El Croquis, 2010.

Single project monographs

 * Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron: Herzog & de Meuron. Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Edited by: Herzog & de Meuron. Basel, Birkhäuser, 2018.
 * Herzog & de Meuron, Park Avenue Armory: Herzog & de Meuron Transforming Park Avenue Armory New York. Edited by: Gerhard Mack. Basel, Birkhäuser, 2014.
 * Tate Modern. Building a Museum for the 21st Century. Edited by: Chris Dercon and Nicholas Serota. London, Tate Publishing, 2016
 * Herzog & de Meuron + Ai Weiwei. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012. Edited by: Sophie O'Brien with Melissa Larner and Claire Feeley. Exh. Cat. Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012. London, Koenig Books / Serpentine Gallery, 2012.
 * Work in Progress. Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum. Exh. Cat. Work in Progress: Herzog & de Meuron's Miami Art Museum. Miami Art Museum. 1 December 2007 – 6 April 2008. Miami, Miami Art Museum, 2007.
 * Expanding the Center. Walker Art Center and Herzog & de Meuron. Edited by: Andrew Bauvelt. Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 2005.
 * Prada Aoyama Tokyo. Edited by: Germano Celant. 2nd ed. Milan, Progetto Prada Arte srl, 2003.

Teaching/research

 * Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili, Pierre de Meuron, Manuel Herz, Christian Schmid, Milica Topalovic: The Inevitable Specificity of Cities. Edited by: ETH Studio Basel. Zurich, Lars Müller Publishers, 2015.
 * Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Manuel Herz: MetroBasel. Ein Modell einer europäischen Metropolitan-Region. Edited by: ETH Studio Basel. Basel, ETH Studio Basel, 2009.
 * Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron: The Canary Islands. Open – Closed. An urban Research Study on the Canary Islands. ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute, Basel, 2007.

Exhibition catalogues, critical readings and focus statements

 * Herzog & de Meuron. Natural History. Edited by: Philip Ursprung. Exh. Cat. Herzog & de Meuron. Archaeology of the Mind. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. 23 October 2002 – 6 April 2003. Baden, Lars Müller, 2002
 * Jacques Herzog, Philip Ursprung, Jeff Wall: Pictures of Architecture. Architecture of Pictures. A Conversation between Jacques Herzog and Jeff Wall. Edited by: Cristina Bechtler. Vienna / New York, Springer, 2004.
 * Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron: Treacherous Transparencies. Thoughts and observations triggered by a visit to the Farnsworth House. Barcelona, Actar Publishers / IITAC Press, 2016.
 * Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili, Pierre de Meuron, Christian Schmid: Switzerland. An Urban Portrait. Birkhäuser, 2006. Vol. No. 1-4.

Awards

 * 1999 Schock Prize
 * 2001 Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent, for Apartment Buildings, Rue Des Suisses, Paris
 * 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize
 * 2003 Stirling Prize for the Laban Dance Centre
 * 2007 RIBA Royal Gold Medal and Praemium Imperiale
 * 2009 RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the Beijing National Stadium
 * 2014 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
 * 2017 RIBA National Award 2017 for the Tate Modern Project

Style
There have been a lot of discussions about whether Herzog & de Meuron has a specific style. Even though people have tried to describe an 'H&dM style', the office always declines to have one: In an interview, founding partner Jacques Herzog stated that Herzog & de Meuron "never aspired to anything that might be called a typical style of our own. […] To this day, we do not want to [design a series] of iconic buildings that would instantly communicate "Herzog & de Meuron" – as opposed to the new, specific location that can be created and communicated by a building. In that respect it's not wise to represent a style or a certain taste. We say that over and over again not out of modesty or to castigate ourselves but because we want to maintain our independence and because we are curious about new possibilities."

Their recent work at Prada Tokyo, the Barcelona Forum Building, and the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games suggest a changing attitude. The shapes and forms of some of the works suggest art glass and objects d'art that one would see on a coffee table, like an art deco ashtray or quirky container for chocolates – a building becomes a blown-up version of desk art because the computer can do it, mimic the plasticity of the medium, and make it possible as a feat of engineering.

Ethics
Herzog & de Meuron have faced criticism for their vision for migrant workers in Beijing during the construction of the Beijing National Stadium. In a July 2008 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, Jacques Herzog was criticised for not having done more to ensure the conditions under which migrant workers constructed the stadium by the interviewer, to which Jacques Herzog responded that the influence of the architect on the construction process is declining rapidly.

On the other hand, some scholars, such as Deyan Sudjic, have stated that the very building of the stadium sent a signal from the Western architecture firm to the Chinese government to change societal norms. However, others have argued that this statement would go with any stadium design, decreasing the potential of the signal.