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Languages German, English, French
Nationality Swiss/USA
Education M Arch UCLA
Licenses
  • NCARB and State of
  • California, USA;
  • Swiss REG-A
Qualifications Organizing and working within creative team structures. Experienced in the design and construction of medium scale housing and commercial projects. Past work includes industrial plants, public buildings and museums.
Affiliations
  • AIA American Institute of Architects;
  • SIA Swiss Society of Architects and Engineers;
  • SWB Schweizerischer Werkbund
Awards City of Zürich excellence in building award 2002 for the SBB power plant.
0ffice Characteristics ZRH Zoelly Rüegger Holenstein Architekten AG: since 1992 an architectural corporation under Swiss corporate law.
Work Urban design, feasibility and density studies; historic restoration and re-use of brown fields; multifamily housing projects for cooperatives, pension funds and insurance companies; production plants and research facilities; banks and office buildings.
Capabilities & Specialties Contact for foreign investors; guidance during the exhaustive and legalistic building permit process; low energy design using Swiss “Minergie”© standards; master planning; graphic work in connection with project marketing.
Project types Housing; office buildings; manufacturing plants; museums
Interests Family; eating; travel; surfing on the internet
Miscellany Werner throughout his career has been striving for excellence in the profession. After his basic architectural education in Europe he obtained his masters degree in the US which became his second home. He taught architectural design and the process of construction using IT both in the US and Europe. Together with his American wife and two teenage children they reside along the lake of Zürich.