El Croquis 196 [I] presents the work of Karamuk Kuo, office based in Zurich founded in 2009 by Jeannette Kuo and Ünal Karamuk. 

Karamuk Kuo Architects, based in Zurich, was established in 2010 by Jeannette Kuo (b. 1978, Indonesia) and Ünal Karamuk (b. 1978, Zurich). Jeannette Kuo received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley (1999), her Master of Architecture with Distinction at Harvard University (2004), and her Master of Advanced Studies at ETH Zurich (2010). After working for Barkow Leibinger Architects in Berlin and Architecture Research Office in New York, she started teaching in 2006 with the Maybeck Teaching Fellowship at UC Berkeley and went on to teach at MIT (2007-2009) and at the EPFL Lausanne (2011-2014). Since 2016, she is Assistant Professor in Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Ünal Karamuk studied architecture at the ETH Zurich. In 2002, he studied for an exchange semester at Harvard Graduate School of Design before returning to complete his diploma at the ETH with Professor Christian Kerez. Until 2008 he worked at the New York offices of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM), REX Architecture, and Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). From 2009 to 2012, he taught at the ETH Zurich Chair of Christian Kerez.

2010 Swiss Art Awards, finalist

2013 Most Beautiful Swiss Books, for A-Typical Plan: Projects and essays on identity, flexibility, and atmosphere in the office building

2014 Iakov Chernikov Prize, nomination

2017 LafargeHolcim Foundation Award, acknowledgement prize

2018 Best Architects 19, for the International Sports Sciences Institute, University of Lausanne, and the Weiden Secondary School

Award-Winning Competitions

2009 Mehr Als Wohnen housing, Zurich, Switzerland, collaboration with Christian Scheidegger, honorable mention

2009 Campus Ruetli Sports Hall, Berlin, Germany, 2nd Prize

2010 Kindergarten Aadorf, Switzerland, 1st Prize

2011 Höchsterstrasse Housing, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 3rd Prize

2012 Hermet Primary School Extension, Switzerland, 3rd Prize

2013 Chillon Castle Visitor Center, Switzerland, 2nd Prize

2013 International Sports Sciences Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1st Prize

2013 Weiden Secondary School and Gym, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland, 1st Prize

2014 Augusta Raurica Archaeological Center, Switzerland, 1st Prize

2014 Haus der Gegenwart, Lenzburg, Switzerland, 3rd Prize

2015 Biel Primary School, Switzerland, 5th Prize

2016 Erlenbach Sports Center, Switzerland, 2nd Prize

2016 Cham Apartments, Switzerland, 1st Prize

2016 Mixed-Use Tower, Mett, Switzerland, 3rd Prize

Works

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El Croquis 196 [II] is dedicated to TEd´A arquitectes. Spanish practice based in Majorca directed by Irene Pérez Piferrer & Jaume Mayol Amengual. 

Irene Pérez Piferrer (Barcelona, 1976) has an Architecture Degree from the Vallés School of Architecture (ETSAV-UPC, 2001). Jaume Mayol Amengual (Mallorca, 1976) has an Architecture Degree from the Vallés School of Architecture (ETSAV-UPC 2000) and a Ph. D. from the Catalonia Polytechnic University (UPC, 2010). They both also studied at the Rome Tre School (1999) and have two children: Aina and Biel. TEd'A architects have been jury members and visiting lecturers at several international universities including Cornell University in Ithaca (New York), Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (Switzerland), Kingston School of Art (London), ETSA Madrid, Lund Universitet (Sweden), KTH Stockholm (Sweden), Architecture School, University College, Dublin (Ireland), Fakultät für Architektur TU, Munich (Germany), ETSA Barcelona and HEIA, Fribourg (Switzerland), amongst others. Jaume Mayol has taught at the Vallés School of Architecture (Barcelona), IE School (Madrid) and ETSALS (Barcelona). Irene Pérez and Jaume Mayol were Directors of one of the workshops at the Porto Academy in 2017 (Portugal). The work of TEd'A arquitectes was exhibited in the Spanish Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 (winner of the Golden Lion), the CatalanBalearic Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, and the itinerant exhibition 'Sensitive Matter: Young Catalan Architects, 2010-2012'.

Awards and Prizes

2018 Spanish Architecture Biennale Prize, for School in Orsonnens

        FAD Awards for International Architecture, Jury Prize, Opinion Prize, for School in Orsonnens

        FAD Awards for Interior Design, Jury Prize, Opinion Prize, for Tourist Apartments in Can Picafort

        Best Architects Award 19, Golden Label, Education buildings section, for School in Orsonnens 

2017 ENOR Young Architecture Awards, Best young studio on the Iberian Peninsula, for Can Jordi i n'Àfrica

        Majorca Architecture Award 2014-2016, for Can Jordi i n'Àfrica 

2015 FAD Awards for Architecture, Finalist, for Can Jordi i n'Àfrica

        Best Architects Awards 16, Residential single-family section, for Can Lluís i n'Eulàlia 

2014 Majorca Architecture Award 2011-2013, for Can Lluís i n'Eulàlia

        AJAC IX Award, Young Architects Association of Catalonia, Built work section, for Can Lluís i n'Eulàlia, Unbuilt work section, for School in Orsonnens

Competition Prizes

2017 Town Hall and Roman Museum in Pully, Switzerland. Second Prize

2015 Road centre in Genthod, Switzerland. Fourth Prize

2014 School in Romont, Switzerland. Second Prize

        School in Ursy, Switzerland. Eighth Prize

        School in Orsonnens, Switzerland. First Prize

        2012 School in Crissier, Switzerland. Fifth Prize

Works

Jordi and Àfrica's Home 

Jaime and Isabelle's Home 

Guillem and Cati's Home 

School in Riaz 

Can Picafort. Tourist Apartments 

School in Orsonnens 

School in Ursy 

Crematorium in Thun 

Road Centre in Genthod 

Miquel and Cati's Homei 

Birgit's Home 

Laia and Biel's Home 

Bärbel and Tobias' Home 

Guardería en Llubí 

Roman Museum in Pully 

Gabriel's Home