Miller & Maranta
Miller & Maranta is a Swiss architecture firm based in Basel. It was founded by the architects Quintus Miller (* 1961, Aarau) and Paola Maranta (* 1959, Chur). During their architecture studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, in the design studio of Fabio Reinhart and Miroslav Šik, they came into contact with the analogue architecture influenced by Aldo Rossi . After various joint projects from 1989 onwards, the current office was founded in 1990. The works that have been built, such as the Voltaschulhaus Basel, the Färberplatz market hall in Aarau, the Schwarzpark residential building in Basel, the restoration and expansion of the Villa Garbald in Castasegna or the old hospice on the Gotthard Pass have been widely published and awarded. Jean-Luc von Aarburg has been a partner in the office since 2013.
Biographies
Quintus Miller obtained his architecture diploma at the ETH Zurich under Fabio Reinhart in 1987 and worked as a design assistant at the EPF Lausanne and the ETH Zurich between 1990 and 1994. After a visiting professorship at the EPF Lausanne from 2000 to 2001 and the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera Italiana from 2007 to 2008, he was visiting professor at the ETH Zurich until 2010. Since 2009 he has been a full professor of architecture at the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio. From 2004 to 2008, Quintus Miller was a member of the Lucerne City Planning Commission . He has been a member of the Monument Preservation Commission of the City of Zurich since 2005 and of the Monument Council of the Canton of Basel-Stadt since 2011 .
Paola Maranta studied architecture at EPF Lausanne and ETH Zurich, where she graduated in 1986. After completing the Master of Business Administration course at IMD Lausanne, she was first a management consultant at McKinsey & Company from 1990 to 1994 , followed by the establishment of a joint architecture office in 1994. She was also visiting professor at the EPF Lausanne and the Accademia di Architettura of the Università della Svizzera Italiana as well as visiting professor at the ETH Zurich. Paola Maranta was a member of the townscape commission of the canton of Basel-Stadt from 2001 to 2005 and has been a member of the townscape commission of Riehen since 2003 .
Jean-Luc von Aarburg (* 1975, Liestal) studied architecture at EPF Lausanne, TU Delft and ETH Zurich, where he graduated in 2001 with a diploma. He has been with Miller & Maranta since 2001, as a member of the management team from 2007 and as a partner from 2013. In the academic year 2009-2010 he was co-lecturer at the visiting professor at Miller & Maranta at ETH Zurich.
Works (selection)
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- 1989–1990: Werdenberg pedestrian walkway , Sevelen
- 1996–2000: Voltaschulhaus, Basel
- 1996–2002: Market hall Färberplatz, Aarau
- since 1995: Conversions and extensions at the Hotel Waldhaus , Sils-Maria
- 1999–2004: Complete renovation of the Kunsthalle Basel
- 2001–2004: Schwarzpark residential building, Basel
- 2001–2004: Restoration and expansion of Villa Garbald , Castasegna
- 2004–2006: Spirgarten senior citizens' residence, Zurich-Altstetten
- 2005–2009: Welnessbad, Samedan
- 2005–2009: Old Hospice , St. Gotthard
- 2005–2013: Housing development and hammam in Patumbah Park, Zurich
- 2010–2013: Renovation of the Jacobs houses, Zurich
- 2011–2015: Sempacherstrasse residential buildings, Basel
- 2011–2016: office and gallery building, Berlin
- 2013–2018: Kindergarten Paradiesstrasse, Riehen
- 2020: Baloise high-rise , Basel
- 2021: Extension of the Lucerne Glacier Garden
Awards and prizes (selection)
- 2000: Bronze rabbit in the architecture category for the Voltaschulhaus, Basel
- 2001: Architecture Prize Beton 01 for the Voltaschulhaus, Basel
- 2002: Prize of the Aargauer Heimatschutz for the market hall Färberplatz, Aarau
- 2003: Good Buildings Basel award for the Voltaschulhaus, Basel
- 2004: Basel Homeland Security Prize for the Schwarzpark residential building, Basel
- 2004: Golden Bunny in the Architecture category for the Villa Garbald project, Castasegna
- 2005: Architecture Prize Beton 05 for the Villa Garbald project, Castasegna
- 2007: contractworld.award 2007 , special award in the education category for the Villa Garbald project, Castasegna
- 2010: Silver Rabbit in the Architecture category for the Old Hospice, St. Gotthard
- 2012: Honorary membership of the Royal Institute of British Architects , London
- 2012: Silver Bunny in the Architecture category for the residential development project in Patumbah Park, Zurich
- 2013: Architecture Prize Concrete for the residential development project in Patumbah Park, Zurich
- 2013: Prix Meret Oppenheim
- 2018: Heinrich Tessenow Medal
Exhibitions (selection)
- 1997: Architekturmuseum Basel, Young Basel Architects , group exhibition
- 1997: Galerie Schaufenster, Basel, city stories
- 1997: Art Basel, Federal Competition for Fine Art , group exhibition
- 2004: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Villa Garbald. Gottfried Semper - Miller & Maranta
- 2004: RIBA Gallery, London, Swiss Made , group exhibition
- 2006: aut. Architektur und tirol, Innsbruck, Miller & Maranta exhibition
- 2006: Yellow House Flims / Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Landmarks in Development , group exhibition
- 2006: Center culturel Suisse, Paris, L'Architecture contemporaine en Suisse , group exhibition
- 2008: Architecture Forum Zurich, Switzerland, Carte Blanche V: Miller & Maranta
- 2012: Biennale di Venezia, And Now the Ensemble !!! , Exhibition in the Swiss Pavilion with Miroslav Šik and Knapkiewicz & Fickert Architects
- 2015: Architektur Galerie Berlin, vedute
- 2017: Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio
literature
- Exposed concrete in detail: four buildings by Miller & Maranta , Quart, Luzern 2001, German: ISBN 978-3-0376-1045-9 ; English: ISBN 978-3-03761-046-6 .
- Villa Garbald : Gottfried Semper - Miller & Maranta , gta, Zurich 2004, ISBN 978-3-8567-6130-1 (German and Italian).
- Emily Hope, Markus Breitschmid (ed.): Villa Garbald at Castasegna - Miller & Maranta. , Architecture Case Studies Series, Volume 2, Zurich: Corporis Publisher for Architecture, Art, and Photography 2009, ISBN 978-0-9802274-7-5 (English).
- Miroslav Šik , Pro Helvetia (Eds.), Adam Caruso, Hans Kollhoff , Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani , Quintus Miller : And now the Ensemble !!! , Lars Müller , Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03778-311-5 (English).
- Michael Hanák (ed.), Hubertus Adam (text), Ruedi Walti (photos), Valerio Ferloni and Annalisa Viviani (translator): Old Hospice St. Gotthard : Reconstruction of the hospice on the Gotthard Pass by Miller & Maranta , Park Books, Zurich 2012 , ISBN 978-3-9060-2710-4 (German and Italian).
Individual evidence
- ^ Studio portrait of Miller & Maranta
- ↑ http://www.millermaranta.ch/buero.html
- ↑ Baunetz Ranking 10 / 11-2012
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ Official office profile