Jonathan Sergison

Jonathan is a founding partner of the practice. Since 2012 he has been based in Switzerland and has been directing the Zurich studio.

He graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1989 and worked for David Chipperfield and Tony Fretton.

Jonathan has taught at many schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association in London, the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL), the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) in Japan.

He has been Full Professor at the Accademia di Mendrisio, Switzerland since 2008, and in 2019 he was invited to establish the Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies (ISUP) in Mendrisio, which he has since directed.

He is particularly interested in urban questions and the role housing plays in the changing conditions of the contemporary European city, has written and lectured on research conducted in both teaching and practice, attended reviews in schools of architecture and served as member of competition juries across the globe.

Jonathan was invited to join the Bund Schweizer Architektinnen und Architekten (BAS) in 2017 and is a member of the Schweiz Ingenieur und Architecktenverein (SIA) and of the Belgian Orde van Architecten.