Angela Deuber

Angela Deuber (born 1975 in Bad Kissingen) is a Swiss architect. She studied at ETH Zurich and has her office in Zurich. Deuber works on both regional and international projects, participates in exhibitions, and gives lectures and reviews.

Career Deuber graduated in architecture from ETH Zurich in 2002. In 2006, she set up her office Angela Deuber Architects in Chur, which she relocated to Zurich in 2020. a school building in Thal, St. Gallen, and a private house in Thusis, Grisons. Of her win, the jury wrote: "Angela Deuber is one of the youngest participants to have been nominated in this edition. In her work we have identified a new outlook for architecture; she successfully pinpoints important areas for structural research in construction and use of materials whilst encapsulating involvement and engagement of female architects in society". In 2017, Deuber exhibited a fragmentary model of the Great Hypostyle Hall at the 2nd Chicago Architecture Biennial. The model is solid and represents the space between four pillars connected to part of the sky.

The same year, Deuber was the first woman to receive the Architekturpreis Beton, which honors architecturally outstanding buildings in concrete.

In 2018, Deuber was invited by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara to exhibit her work at the 16. Venice Biennale titled Freespace. In Deuber’s exhibition of eight projects, she showed how physical presence and spatial infinity are translated into architecture. She presented these projects in the form of analytiques – palimpsest-like drawings that merges and layers the varying scales of architectural drawing.

Buildings

2012: Medieval House, Stuls, Switzerland 2019: Private House, Thusis, Switzerland 2020: Office Space, Zurich, Switzerland 2021: Atelier Space, Zurich, Switzerland

Proposals

2011: Swiss Chancellery, Nairobi, Kenya 2012: Palazzo del Cinema di Locarno, Locarno, Switzerland 2012–2014 Multi-purpose hall in Buochs, Switzerland (1st prize) 2013–2014: House in the Outer Hebrides, Isle of Harris, Scotland 2016: Museum in a Garden, Frohnau, Germany

Awards

2015: arcVision Prize 2015: Island: 8 Houses for the Isle of Harris. The Lighthouse, Glasgow. With works from Raphael Zuber, Pascal Flammer, Angela Deuber, Johannes Norlander, Christ & Gantenbein, Neil Gillespie and Raumbureau. Curated by Samuel Penn and Penny Lewis. 2016: Schweizweit. Swiss Architecture Museum 2017: Make New History. Chicago Architecture Biennial 2018: 8 Works. Biennale Architettura 2018: 44 Low-Resolution Houses. Princeton University

Publications

Penn, Samuel. Island: 8 Houses for the Isle of Harris, Outer Hebrides. AE Foundation 2014. ISBN 978-0993080401. Deuber, Angela. 8 Works. Self-published 2018. Penn, Samuel. Accounts. Pelinu Books 2019. ISBN 978-973-0-29787-4. Angela Deuber Atelier (Ed.). Leaves. Jungle Books 2023. ISBN 978-3-9525726-5-8.