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Maurus Schifferli (born 11 January 1973 in Wilderswill) is a Swiss landscape architect and professor.

Biography

Maurus Schifferli completed an apprenticeship as a landscape architect at Kienast Vogt Partner in Zurich and Bern until 1994 and studied landscape architecture at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil until 2000. In 1999, he worked at the Büro für Gestaltung in Munich and founded the landscape architecture firm 4d in Bern with Simon Schöni in 2000 and his own landscape architecture firm in 2014, which has offices in Bern, Basel, Lugano and Jakarta. Maurus Schifferli is a member of the SIA. Schifferli has taught at ETH Zurich, the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, the Bern University of Applied Sciences, the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt and since 2024 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Maurus Schifferli was invited to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.

Principal works

  • 2000–2002: Lido Biel
  • 2003–2005: Gardens of the Hôtel de Ville and Hôtel de la Poste, Sierre
  • 2004–2009: Schoolhouse Leutschenbach, Zurich (architect: Christian Kerez and engineer Joseph Schwartz)
  • 2006–2011: Zug-Schleife, Zug (Architektur: Valerio Olgiati and engineers Conzett Bronzini Gartmann)
  • 2007–2011: Schoolhouse Grono (Architektur: Raphael Zuber and engineers Conzett Bronzini Gartmann)
  • 2008–2012: Extension Pavillon School Gönhard, Aarau (architect: Roger Boltshauser)
  • 2009–2013: Schoolhouse Thal (architect: Angela Deuber and engineers Conzett Bronzini Gartmann)
  • 2014: Villa Além, São Francisco da Serra (architect: Valerio Olgiati)
  • 2015: Rectory, Trub (architect: Roger Boltshauser)
  • 2018–2024: Wall House, Bad Kötzting (architects: Büro Mühlbauer)
  • 2018–2025: Swimming pool Gossau, St. Gallen (architect: Raphael Zuber and engineers Ferrari Gartmann)
  • since 2021: Charité Center, Berlin (architects: Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür)
  • since 2021: Extension Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin (architects: Silvia Gmür Reto Gmür)

Awards

Quotes

  • "My gardens are physical manifestations and localizations of my understanding of things and thus faithful mediators of my thoughts, my dreams, my existence."
  • "Every day anew, the mysterious spectacle of life and the immeasurable beauty of nature is revealed to my eyes."
  • "Nature once gave us gardens, now gardens become archives that allow us to repair landscapes."
  • "My work is symbolic of inexhaustible and limitless meanings, whose language formulates allusions and suggestions to something inexpressible and is always profound."

Literature

  • Maurus Schifferli (ed.): Strategies in Landscape Architecture. About Bocks, Zurich/Berlin, 2022 with contributions by Markus Peter and Christoph Schläppi
  • Maurus Schifferli and Simon Schöni (eds.): 4d Landschaftsarchitekten. Edition Dino Simonett, Zurich 2013 with photographs by Milo Keller and a contribution by Christoph Schläppi, design: Dino Simonett, Bruno Margreth

Contributions

  • Time Space Existence, "Biennale di Venezia". Contribution by Maurus Schifferli: Beyound Object and Abstraction, 2018
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