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Pierre de Meuron studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) with Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli from 1970 to 1975. Together with Jacques Herzog, he established Herzog & de Meuron in Basel in 1978.

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They have both been visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), USA, in 1989 and from 1994 to 2014, and have been professors at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) – Department of Architecture, Network City and Landscape, from 1999 until 2018.

They co-founded the ETH Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute, a research program with a focus on the processes of transformation in the urban domain. In 2016, both were given Honorary Doctorates from the Royal College of Art; in 2018, from the Technical University of Munich; and in 2000 they were awarded Honorary Doctor of Political Science degrees from the University of Basel.

In 2001, Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog were awarded the Pritzker Arc