An Fonteyne (1971) is an architect and professor of architectural design.
She grew up in Ostend (Belgium) and graduated as an architect at Ghent University in 1994. She worked at DKV architecten in Rotterdam and David Chipperfield architects in London.
In 2000 she founded noAarchitecten together with Jitse van den Berg and Philippe Viérin. Their work is based on a strong confidence in the future of urban society. They do not see architecture as a discipline that is practised in isolation, but as a continuous conversation that they like to have with other critical thinkers from various disciplines. As a team of about twenty people, noAarchitecten is working on a rich oeuvre of very diverse buildings, including public institutions, housing and transformations of historical buildings. Their work arises in a strong connection with the layered history of building, but at the same time focuses on the contemporary conditions of living together.
Since 2017, An Fonteyne has also been a partner at Atelier Kanal, the architecture collective that was founded between noAarchitecten, EM2N (Zurich) and Sergison Bates (London) for the transformation of the former Citroen garage into Kanal, a museum and workshop for modern and contemporary art, performance and architecture in Brussels.
Since 2019 An Fonteyne is an elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. An Fonteyne is Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich since 2017. Previously, she was a lecturer at TU Delft and a professor at Hasselt University. An Fonteyne lives and works in Brussels and Zurich and has two children.
Emma Kaufmann LaDuc is an architect and landscape architect based in Zurich. She graduated in architecture from TU Wien and in landscape architecture from ETH Zurich. Through searching and researching, she works within immediate territories to contextualise both the material and the labor immanent to spatial practice. With Studio Pass, founded in 2025, she works her own projects.
Ties Linders studied at TU Eindhoven and ETH Zürich. He worked at several offices in the Netherlands and in Zürich, among which Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven architecten and Mathis Kamplade. He works on small projects in the region of Zürich, alongside researching and publishing floor plans.
Géraldine Recker is an architect and photographer based in Zurich. She studied at ETH Zürich and Harvard GSD and previously worked for Conen Sigl, Lütjens Padmanabhan, David Chipperfield, and Hélène Binet. From 2021 until 2024 she co-founded and worked at the architecture office studio OLAC. A special interest lies in the presence of infrastructures, resources and hidden processes in the urban fabric, which she first explored in a joint diploma project on water infrastructure in 2019 and which she is also examining in her photographic work.
Elke Schoonen is an architect and researcher based in Brussels, Belgium. She studied at the TU Delft and the KADK in Copenhagen. During and after her studies she gained professional experience in Rotterdam and Brussels, where she worked for noAarchitecten for several years. Since 2022 she works at 51N4E, focusing on social-spatial research in urban transformation projects. Within the Chair of Affective Architectures she researches interdisciplinary practice, with the first case being the collaboration between architecture and art.
Edoardo Signori studied architecture at the ETH Zurich where he graduated in 2021. Apart from working for multiple offices in Zurich, he co-organised different workshops and exhibitions. Together with Samira Lenzin he founded the architecture practice USO based in Basel and Zurich. The practice’s interests range from small scale refurbishments, building with and within the existing, to larger territorial research projects.
Miriam Stierle is an architect and researcher based in Basel. She is currently completing her doctorate at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio and is an academic guest at ETH Zurich. Her doctoral reseach, conducted within the SNSF-funded project Codes and Conventions for Future Zurich, examines spatial justice, housing, and urban densification in Zurich. She studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart. She has taught at ETH Zurich, FHNW Muttenz, and HSLU Lucerne, and has lectured at ETH Zurich and EPFL. In 2019, she founded Studiolimani, an architecture and research practice based in Basel working on transformation and refurbishment projects in Switzerland, Italy and Germany. She is also a member of indiana, a Zurich-based collective of architects, urbanists, and researchers founded in 2022, which explores questions of spatial justice, care, inclusion, and participation through exhibitions, installations, design projects, and competitions.
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