Fischer Architekten AG (Zürich)

We see architecture as a continuation of our architectural history. In this process, we are responsible for formulating the built environment in which we all live. As an Executive Architecture Office in the classical sense, combining all the knowledge gained from the urban planning study and the architectural competition with all the planning services and their implementation, we put our networking at the service of the best possible building object.

We are trustees for our clients, but at the same time we are also committed to the public - for example in the form of public spaces or in the careful use of resources - and especially to the users of our buildings. Designing therefore also means rubbing and negotiating; it is a meandering and iterative process, and we appreciate clients who follow this open path with us. That's why we support architectural competition in a variety of functions and forms as a guarantor of our building culture and a stimulator of our own reflection and creativity.

What drives us is the will and the joy of creating high-quality spaces with high design standards and their own atmosphere. The space is made perceptible to all the senses through its geometry and surface, and programmatically and contextually charged. Only development down to the smallest detail gives architecture its unmistakable identity. We avoid compromise and search for the archetype.

Models and reference buildings from architectural history help to clarify our ideas. Each architectural design is to be understood in a whole. It provides information about the relationship to the next larger scale and also to the next smaller scale. The urban and architectural concept emerges from the interpretation of the site, the history and the multiple needs. Reduction is an important method that leads us to this concept, separating the essential from the incidental. We are driven by precision and uniqueness, seeking clarity and simplicity. This creates strong architectural structures as well as cohesive and durable constructions.