May lecture of the Finally! series, entitled From the City to the Detail, presents the well-known Swiss architect Roger Diener from the studio Diener & Diener Architekten.
Swiss architect Roger Diener graduated from the prestigious Faculty of Architecture at ETH Zurich, where he currently works as a professor. At the Faculty, he co-founded Studio Basel (e.g. with the architects Herzog and de Meuron). As a visiting professor, he taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Vienna School of Architecture, the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam or the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, etc. Diener has a long-term interest in the reconstruction of monuments and is a member of several foundations and commissions dedicated to this topic. The Diener & Diener office was founded in 1942, of which Roger Diener has been the second generation since 1980. The studio’s main projects include, for example, the completion of the eastern wing of the Natural History Museum in Berlin or the local Swiss embassy. The office focuses on residential and administrative projects, public buildings, urban planning and renovations of historic houses, mainly in Basel.
