Gion A. Caminada

Gion Caminada was born in Vrin, Switzerland, in 1957. After working as an apprentice carpenter in Vrin, he attended a school of applied arts in Zurich and an art school in Florence prior to completing his postgraduate studies in architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He has had his own architectural practice in Vrin since 1986. In 1998 he was appointed Assistant Professor at the ETH Zurich, where he was Associate Professor of Architecture and Design from 2008 to 2020. Since 2020 he has been a Full Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich.

Portrait: Jesús Granada

Read an excerpt on our blog: “Interview with Gion A. Caminada. Concepts, by Robert M. Veneri” →

Texts

• Interview with Gion A. Caminada. Concepts
  Robert M. Veneri
• Sensuous, Meaningful, Beautiful. Gion Caminada’s Relevant Architecture
  Martin Tschanz
• An Approach to the Work of Gion A. Caminada
  Silvia Alonso de los Ríos
• A Personal Reflection
  Gion A. Caminada

Works and projects

• Vrin Multi-Purpose Hall
• Stiva da Morts Vrin Community Mourning Place
• Walpen House in Blatten bei Naters
• Disentis Monastery Girls' Boarding School
• Beckel-Kübler House in Fürstenaubruck
• Girsberger House in Múnster-Geschinen
• Disentis Monastery Farm
• Sennaria Cheese Factory in Disentis
• Ballenberg Open-Air Museum Administration Building
• Lookout Tower on the Reuss Delta
• Tegia da Vaut Forest Hut in Domat
• Gasthaus Am Brunnen. Guesthouse in Valendas
• Lookout Tower in the Goldau Nature Park
• Bus Stop in Vrin
• Casa Caminada. Guesthouse in Fürstenau
• Gasthaus Hergiswald. Guesthouse in Obernau
• Burggarta. Housing Complex in Valendas