Chair of
Architectural Behaviorology

Team

Momoyo Kaijima

Momoyo Kaijima (b. 1969 , Tokyo JP) graduated from the Faculty of Domestic Science at Japan Women’s University in 1991. She founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto in 1992. In 1994 she received her master degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. During 1996-1997 she was a guest student with scholarship from Switzerland at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). In 2000 she completed her post-graduate program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. She served as an assistant professor at the Art and Design School of the University of Tsukuba since 2000, and as an associate professor since 2009. In 2012 she received the RIBA International Fellowship. Since 2017 she has been serving as a Professor of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ. She taught at Harvard GSD (2003, 2016), guest professor at ETHZ (2005-07), as well as at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2011-12), Rice University (2014-15), Delft University of Technology (2015-16), and Columbia University (2017). While engaging in design projects for houses, public buildings and station plazas, she has conducted numerous investigations of the city through architecture such as Made in Tokyo and Pet Architecture.  She was the curator of Japan Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Atelier Bow-Wow:    www.bow-wow.jp

Sandrine Badoux

Sandrine Badoux (b. 1995, Lausanne CH) is an architect. She completed her Bachelor in EPF Lausanne and her Master in ETH Zürich, graduating in 2019 with Professor Momoyo Kaijima. Between her Bachelor and Master she interned for Pont 12, in Lausanne. During her studies she was interested in a variety of scales, techniques and materials. She took part in workshops, where she did more practical work. She works as an assistant at ETH Zürich, Chair of Architectural Behaviourology since June 2020.

Annamaria Bonzanigo

Annamaria Bonzanigo (b.1996, Geneva CH) is an architect and urban design researcher. She completed her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in architecture at the ETH Zürich, graduating in 2022 with Prof. H. Klumpner and Prof. D. Kaufmann. She gained practical experience during internships at Burkhalter Sumi Architekten and Lehmag AG. During a semester abroad at CEPT University in Ahmedabad (IN) Annamaria discovered her strong interest in the tensions between the eastern and western world’s building processes. She is currently co-leading an interdisciplinary collective focusing on participative building sites with rammed earth, in parallel working as a research assistant at the Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design Prof. T. Avermaete ETH Zürich. She joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology in Autumn 2022 as a teaching assistant.

Rémy Carron

Carron Rémy (b. 1995, Fully CH) is a practicing architect collaborating on various projects in Switzerland. After several working experiences in Swiss offices as well as in NGO’s in South America, he graduated from ETHZ with a master degree from the chair of Adam Caruso in 2021. Rémy joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology as a research assistant since 2022.

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Christoph Danuser

Christoph Danuser (b. 1988, Chur CH) joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology in 2018, where he is involved in research and teaching for the chair’s design studios. After studying architecture at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and ETH Zurich, from which he graduated with a master’s degree, Christoph worked for several years as a project leader and gained experience designing and developing multiple projects of different sizes and kinds, from new developments to the renovation of listed buildings. In 2018 Christoph founded his own architectural practice, Atelier Danuser, working on architecture projects in Switzerland and abroad.

Atelier Danuser:     atelierdanuser.ch

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Simona Ferrari

Simona Ferrari (b. 1988, Luino IT) studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano (BSc with honors), TU Vienna, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (MEng) as Monbukagakusho Fellow. From 2014 to 2017 she worked with Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo, completing several international projects including the Research Library in Muharraq (Bahrain), the Japanese House Exhibition at MAXXI (Rome) and at MOMAT (Tokyo). She is currently completing an MA in Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts. Her practice is multi-disciplinary including architecture, visual arts, and writing. She joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at ETHZ in 2017, assisting the curation of the Japan Pavilion at the 16th Venice Biennale.

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Tazuru Harada

Tazuru Harada (b. 1990, Ibaraki JP) studied architecture at the University of Tsukuba (B.Arch.) with Prof. Momoyo Kaijima and completed her master’s program at Graduate School of University of Tsukuba (M.Arch.) as a Student with Excellent Grades by JASSO. During 2016-2017, she studied interaction design and innovation at École nationale supérieure d’arts et métiers in Paris (M.Sc.) as a member of the Young Ambassador Program by MEXT. During 2019-2020, she worked in Paris for several international projects in architecture and landscape. She joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology at ETH Zurich in 2020.

Kelly Man

Kelly Man (b. 1993, Luxembourg LU) studied Architecture at the EPFL in Lausanne, in Austria at the TU Graz and at ETH Zürich, at which she graduated in 2019 under Professor Momoyo Kaijima. During her studies and after graduation, Kelly has worked in several architecture offices in Zurich. Since August 2021, Kelly has been teaching at ETH Zurich at the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology, where she can deepen her interest in the interaction between space and people, as well as their awareness of sustainability and the way people build in everyday life.

Lena Stamm

Lena Stamm (b. 1994, Rorschach CH) is a practicing architect. After her apprenticeship as a draftswoman in St.Gallen, she studied architecture at ETH Zürich and TU Delft, and graduated in Zurich at the chair of An Fonteyne. She has worked in different architecture offices in Switzerland, focusing on the topic of housing, and working with the existing. She joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology as a researcher in 2021, after already working there as a student assistant.

Basil Witt

Basil Witt (b. 1988, Zug CH) studied architecture at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and ETH Zürich, from which he graduated in 2015. From 2016 to 2018, he worked for Graser Troxler Architects in Zurich, where he was responsible for the refurbishment of the Tour de la Champagne in Biel. He is a founding member of Countdown 2030, an association advocating for a more sustainable building culture. In 2019 he founded his own architectural practice. He joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology in September 2021, where he works as a teaching assistant.

www.faustwitt.ch

Joel Zimmerli

Joel Zimmerli (b. 1994, Bern CH) is a practicing architect based in Zurich. He studied architecture at ETH Zurich where he graduated at the Chair of Tom Emerson in 2021. He since collaborated with Studio TEN, a collective of architects, artists and researchers based in Zurich and Belgrade. During his studies, he worked in different offices, landscape architecture and architecture, to extend his interest in design and transformation as a multidisciplinary approach. He joined the Chair of Architectural Behaviorology as a research assistant in 2022.

Student Assistants: 

Aude Sahli, Alessio Liambo, Christian Seiterle, Joël Mariéthod, Myriam Marti, Lara Aschwanden, Nicholas Schenk, Vincenz Leuppi, Timo Bauer, Joël Cédric Fischer, Juliet Ishak

Former Assistants:

Hans Rufer, Tamotsu Ito, Diana Zenklusen, Oliver Brunhart, Alexander Bradley

Former Student Assistants: 

Shohei Kunisawa, Sandrine Badoux, Arnaud Bostelmann, Itaru Matsumoto, Alessio De Gottardi, Tobias Wick, Yuma Aki, Clara Copiglia, Tanguy Caversaccio, Oliver Brunhart, Lena Stamm, Rodrigo Mendoza, Rémy Carron, Philipp Gmür, Haruhi Untersander, Matthias Burkhalter