Staufer and Hasler Architects - Tapa blanda

This three volume publication about Staufer & Hasler Architects in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) documents the current status of their diversified work. The first volume is devoted to the theory, the research activities of Astrid Staufer and Thomas Hasler. The second volume examines their teaching activities at the ETH Zurich and the EPF Lausanne. The third volume presents the construction activity of the firm. The projects are organized topically, not chronologically, whereby the theoretical basis for the individual works provides a bridge to the first two volumes. With texts by Gian-Marco Jenatsch, Astrid Staufer and Thomas Hasler and photos by Heinrich Helfenstein and Roland Bernath.

Astrid Staufer, born in 1963, studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and worked with Marcel Meili and Markus Peter Architekten in Zurich. In 1994, she founded the office Staufer & Hasler Architekten in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, together with Thomas Hasler. Astrid Staufer also teaches at ETH Zurich and ETH Lausanne. Thomas Hasler, born in 1957, studied architecture at HTL Winterthur and ETH Zurich and worked with architect Bruno Reichlin in Geneva. He taught and teaches at ETH Zurich, Universite de Geneve, and ETH Lausanne. Since 1994, he works together with Astrid Staufer at the Staufer & Hasler office in Frauenfeld, Switzerland.