Prof. Sacha Menz

Prof.  Sacha Menz

Prof. Sacha Menz

Full Professor at the Department of Architecture

ETH Zürich

Inst. f. Technologie in der Arch.

HIB E 33

Stefano-Franscini-Platz 1

8093 Zürich

Switzerland

Additional information

Sacha Menz born on May 25th, 1963 in Vienna, has been a full professor for Archirecture and Building Process at ETH Zurich since October 2004.

 

1989

Architectural degree at ETH. Started collaboration with Prof. Dolf Schnebli, Tobias Ammann and Prof. Flora Ruchat-Roncati.

1990 - 1997

Founded Architectural firm Sacha Menz and Kuno Schuhmacher Architects, Zurich.

1991 - 1997

Founded Joran Sport Co. for design and production of High-End bicycles in Zurich, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Since 1997

Co-Founder of SAM Architects and Partners in Zurich. Several architectural competitions and built projects in Switzerland and abroad. www.samarch.ch

Since 1997

Co-establishes the real estate firm Staub Holding Inc. in Switzerland, several developments follow.

Since 2001

Member of numerous architectural juries, member of the Architectural Board of Consultants for the city of Ostfildern, Germany and member of several foundations in Switzerland.

2002 - 2011

Member of the Board, from 2005-2011 President of the SIA (Swiss Engineers and Architects Association), Section-Zurich.

Since 2004

Member of the FSA (Federation of Swiss Architects).

2008

Published Three Books on the Building Process, VDF Editors, English edition in March 2010. New edition published in 2014.

2008 - 2011

Member of the Board Platform Future Buildings, a Research Platform for Sustainable Building Technologies.

2009

Established MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) and CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) at ETH-Zurich, currently running.

Since 2009

Head/Co-founder of Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zurich.

2011 - 2015

Dean and Vice-Dean at the Department of Architecture, ETH-Zurich.

2012 - 2014

Leader of Module X (Housing) at the Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore-ETH Centre, Singapore.

Since 2013

Established spin-off Arch-Tec-Lab Inc. in Zurich. http://www.ita.arch.ethz.ch/archteclab.html

2014 - 2015

Vice Director of the NCCR (National Centre of Competence in Research) in Digital Fabrication.

2015 -2020

Co-Principal Investigator of Dense and Green Building Typologies at the Future Cities Laboratory 2.0, Singapore-ETH Centre, in Singapore.

2015 - 2018

Member of the Board of Directors of SIA (Swiss Engineers and Architects Association).

2016

Established IÖ App, a website application on building economics. www.ioe-app.ethz.ch

2018

Established MAP, a methodology website for architectural and building process. https://map.arch.ethz.ch

Since 2018

Member of the Strategy Commission of ETH-Zurich

Since 2020

Director of Future Cities Lab (FCL) Global programme in ETH Zurich. https://fcl.ethz.ch

 

A selection of publication and research activities can be found here:

www.bauprozess.arch.ethz.ch

http://www.ita.arch.ethz.ch/index.php/de/arch-tec-lab

A selection of executed architecture projects can be found here:

www.samarch.ch

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