Hosoya Schaefer Architects

HOSOYA SCHAEFER is a Zürich-based studio for architectural designs, strategies, and research. It was founded by Markus Schaefer and Hiromi Hosoya in 2003. With an international network of collaborators, the studio is involved in building design and realization, urban design, media installations, strategic planning, and consulting.

For us, architecture is a process of constant inquiry. We try to develop a clear and specific solution for each project. Along the way, we frequently discover wisdom that has already been formulated. However, more and more often, innovation becomes apparent, especially in the recombination of existing ideas. We work with clients and partners who come to us with unusual questions, which we approach with interdisciplinary responses. To facilitate this method, we have built an international network of innovative people and offices with whom we regularly cooperate. Novelty is therefore not an end in and of itself but rather a response to changing conditions and the uncertainty of the future. With innovation as a core competence, the office's sphere of activity is broad. We work on city planning, architecture, media installations, and films. Our projects include innovation parks, a 230-ha Masterplan in Slovenia, Europeís highest altitude airport, a train station at a UNESCO World Heritage Site, four train stations in Toronto, ready-made paper houses, the news studio for ZDF in Germany, or films about mobility for Volkswagen. We are rationally optimistic and see space, buildings, and cities as parts of a larger whole, a system that it is imperative to understand and to design intelligently.

Chapters and articles in books or reports

“37 Gründe, liberal zu sein”: Orell Füssli 2007

“Architecture Now! Restaurants & Bars”: Taschen 2009

“Content”: Taschen 2004

“Corporate Architecture”: Industriebau TU Wien 2008

“De intense stad”: Platform GRAS 2004

“Design for Shopping”: Abbeville Press 2006

“Eat Out!”: Gestalten 2010

“Frankfurt! Frankfurt?”: Societäts-Verl.2009

“Glatt! From Suburb to City”: Parkbooks 2013

“Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping”: Taschen 2001

“Herausforderung Erdgeschoss / Ground Floor Interface”: Jovis 2014

“Light Capital”: The Berlage Institute 2006

“Mutations”: Actar 2000

“Nachrichtenstudio”: ZDF Meinz 2009

“The Architecture of Hospitals”: NAi Publishers 2006

“Travel, Space, Architecture”: Ashgate 2009

“Urban Transformation”: Ruby Press 2008

“Urbana Prenova”: Drustvo urbanistov in prostorskih planerjev Slovenije 2009

“Zbornica za Arhitekturu in Prostor Slovenie”: report 2010

Newspapers and journals

a+u: 406/2004

Abitare: 11/2007, 07/2014

AIT: 10/2008

Alpbacher: report 2004

amc: Interiors 2008

Anthos: report 2011

Arch+: 175/2005, 189/2008, 208/2012

Architehse: 3/2006, 4/2010

Architektur + Technik: 5/2014

Arrival: 2008, 2009

Art and Architecture Review: online edition 2012

Axis: 158/2012

Baunetz: 263/2012, 357/2014, 2014

Bilckwinkel (DE/FR): 25/2012

BOB: 039/2007

Concept: 7/2008

Das Magazin: 49/2003, 12/2009, 4/2012, 51/52/2013

Die Bildende: 2/2007

Domus China: 19/2008, 45/2010

Du: 762/2006

Essen & Trinken: 2012

Extra: 2008

Flash: 2008

Frame: 2008

Glamorous: 0110/2010

Hochparterre: 8/2006, 02/2008, 04/2008, 6-7/2011

Hochparterre Wettbewerbe: 1/2014, 2/2014, 3/2014

Hunch Mediators: 10/2006

Icon: 052/2007

IW: 63/2007

JABS: 125/2010

Just de_tiles: 2012

Ljubljana: 14/2009

Monocle: 2008

NZZ: 18/2014, 198/2014,

Oris: 62/2010

Review: 2008

SAM: 6/2008

SBB: 5/2008

Sonne, Wind & Wärme: 13 / 2009

Tages Anzeiger: 28.04.2014

Tec 21: 25/2014, 26/2014

Tokyo Life: 05/2001

Transhelvetica: 20/2014

Transit: 15/2009

Urban China: 07/2006

Urban Flux: 04/2009

Weltwoche: 52/53/2004

Werk, bauen + wohnen: 6/2009, 4/2013, 5/2014, 7-8/2014

Wired: 06/2003

Wirtschaft: 01/2010

Woman in Business: 11/2013

2014 iF Communication Design Award

2013 Red Dot Communication Design Award- Grand Prix

2013 Mobiglobe Filme in Program “Cinemambiente”, Turin and “Deauville Green Awards”, France

2011 Red Dot Communication Design Award- Gold

2011 iF Communication Design Award- Gold

2011 German Design Award- Nomination

2008 Holcim Award- Honourable mention Europa

2008 Contractworld Award- “New Generation”

2014 Museum für Kommunikation Berlin: “Best Communication Design – Red Dot Winners Selection 2013“

2013 Boston, MA, USA; Accra, Ghana; Santa Cruz, Bolivia: “Post-Oil City: The History of the City’s Future”

2012 Architekturforum Zürich: “Learning from Tokyo” (Symposium and Exhibition)

2010 Venice Biennale: “Leichtraum” (Installation in Austrian Pavilion)

2009 Architekturzentrum Wien: “Balkanology: New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe”

2008 Swiss Architecture Museum: “Balkanology: New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe”

2006 Venice Biennale: “Beyond Mapping” (with the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam)

2006 Ljubljana City Hall: ‘Light Capital: Urban Scripts for Ljubljana’ (with the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam)

2006 Cornell University, Ithaka, NY: “Japan Now”

2005 Kulturzentrum Seedamm, Pfäffikon SZ: „Mapping Switzerland“

2004 Groningen: „The Intense Stad“, ‘Vondellaan te Groningen’

Selected projects

2014- Swiss National Innovation park, Dübendorf (1st rank) / Urban design / 71 ha

2014- Herisau Station (1st rank) / Train station, urban design / GFA 40.000 m2

2013- V-ZUG, Zug (Urban design study, 1st rank) / Urban design / 166.000 m2

2013- Bahnhofsplatz Olten (Urban design study) / Train station, station square

2012- Das KVArtier, development of a former waste incinerator area, Bern (2nd prize- general concept; 1st prize- exemplary building proposals) / Mixed use / 23.333 m2

2012- Re-branding of the GO Transit System in Toronto with Winkreative (in planning), Toronto

2012- Conversion for the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St. Moritz (in planning) / Hotel / 5.153 m3

2011- Architectural corporate identity for Union Pearson Express with Winkreative, Toronto (in planning) / Four train stations

2012- Redevelopment of the Brisgi Area In Baden (1st prize) / Urban design / 25.000 m2

2012- Learning from Tokyo, Zürich / Exhibition and symposium

2011- Wil West, Wil, Switzerland (in planning) / Urban design 92.5 ha

2011- Butterfly House, France (in planning) / Private house 150 m2

2011- Europaallee- Baufeld F, Zürich (Competition, 2nd prize) / Offices, apartments 36.900 m2

2010- 2011 Metrobild Zürich / Development strategy for the Metropolitan Region of Zürich

2009- 2010 Railroad station St. Moritz (1st prize, basis for zoning plan) / Urban design study 21.000 m2

2009- 2010 Mobiglobe 3.0- Visions for sustainable mobility, Autostadt, Wolfsburg / Media installation

2008/2009- Railroad station area in Aarburg (Competition, 3d prize) / Urban design 18.000 m2

2008- Masterplan Šmartinska Partnership, Ljubljana (Competition, 1st prize) / Urban design 230 ha

2008- Engadin Airport, Samedan-St. Moritz (Competition, 1st prize) / Airport 28.000 m2

2008- Celovska Cesta, Ljubljana (Masterplan competition, 1st prize) / Mixed use 150.000 m2

2007- “La Rinascente“, Milano, Italy / Department store and apartments 14.000 m2

2007- “Green Hypercore“, Milano, Italy / Office building 27.000 m2

2007- 2009 “heute” studio, ZDF, Mainz / Concept and media planning

2007- “Second Planet“ (with Condorfilms, Zürich) / Documentary movie

2005- 2007 Restaurant ANAN, Autostadt, Wolfsburg / Restaurant 370 m2

2005- 2006 Mobiglobe, Autostadt, Wolfsburg / Media installation

Academia

Hiromi Hosoya

2008- 2012 University Professor at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria

2011 Visiting Professor at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, U.S.A.

2007 Visiting Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria

2005- 2006 Visiting Professor at Cornell University, U.S.A.

Markus Schaefer

on-going Expert in NRP 65 Projects “Nachhaltige Siedlungsentwicklungsmust (SUPat)”

2007- 2009 University Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria

2007 Guest Professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria

2005- 2006 Guest instructor at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, NL / “Light Capital Ljubljana”

Guest Instructor at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam, NL / “The Architecture of Hospitals”

Masterclass at the Berlage Institute, Postgraduate Laboratory for Architecture,

2003 Rotterdam, NL

Lectures

2014 Ljubljana Forum, Ljubljana

2014 EPFL, Lausanne

2014 Symposium ZHAW, Zürich

2014 ETH Symposium, Zürich

2014 Olso School of Architecture and Design, Oslo

2013 MAK, Vienna

2013 TU Munich

2013 Latvian Art Academy, Riga

2013 ZHdK Mater Workshop, Zürich

2013 ZHdK, Zürich

2013 McKinsey CTO Conference, Kitzbühel

2013 ETH, Zürich

2012 ZHdK Conference, Zürich

2012 ETH, Zürich

2012 German Architecture Centre, Berlin

2012 Summer Academy ETH, Zürich

2012 City Futures, Bern

2012 Helbling Symposium, Zürich

2011 Fulbright Alumni Association, Zürich

2011 Metropolitankonferenz, Zürich

2011 Columbia University

2011 Harvard University

2011 Post2000 Talks, Lisbon

2010 ETH Symposium, Zürich

2010 Chamber of Architecture and Spatial Planning of Slovenia (ZAPS)

2010 University of Applied Science OWL

2010 Switzerland 3.0, Zürich

2010 Oslo Associations of Architects, Oslo

2010 ETH, Zürich

2009 Panel at Bavarian Chamber of Architects, Munich

2009 Property & Faciliity conference, executive campus HSG, St. Gallen

2009 Urban Reset conference, Hafencity University, Hamburg

2009 Kornhausforum Bern

2009 Stahlbauforum Baden

2009 Symposium Kunstareal, Munich

2008 Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart

2008 vlow! conference, Bregenz

2008 Salone die Mobile Milano

2008 Contractworld Hanover

2007 Universität der Künste Berlin

2007 Academy of Fine Arts Bratislava

2007 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

2007 Technical University Vienna

2007 Panel at Freezone, Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel

2006 Stuttgarter Medientage

2006 Japan Now, Cornell University, Ithaka

2006 Kulturzone 06, Schirn Kunsthalle und Messe Frankfurt

2006 Volkswagen Global Conference, Wolfsburg

2006 Trendtag, Hamburg

2006 International Symposium on Metropolitan Regions, TU Munich

2005 Cornell University, Ithaka

2005 Alpbach Symposium

2005 Tweakfest, Zürich

2004 Architekturzentrum, Vienna

2004 ZhdK, Zürich

2004 Holcim Forum on Sustainability

2004 The Intense City, Groningen

2004 Alpbach Symposium