Prof. Wolfgang Rossbauer

Wolfgang Rossbauer (b. 1978) is an architect and professor. His work focuses on the physical conditions of architecture and the question of how construction and operation affect the culture of use and, consequently, communal life.

After earning his degree in architecture from ETH Zurich in 2005, Wolfgang Rossbauer founded his own atelier in 2009. He has been teaching at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts since 2013; in 2019, he served as a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich. He views teaching as a space where practical knowledge is generated through experimental practice. Using the “Research–Design–Build” approach, he develops projects based on the investigation of materials and processes and tests them through built experiments. This approach has resulted in projects such as the summer schools in Tanzania, the “Circular Time Lab” in Lucerne, and “Building with Excavated Soil” in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich.

His architectural practice is also shaped by constructive experiments. Among other projects, this has resulted in buildings in Afghanistan (ETH House of Science in Bamiyan, 2007), Tanzania (Simba Vision Montessori School, 2019), Germany (Hallertauer Haus Siegenburg, 2025), and Switzerland (Ilgen After-School Care Center, Zurich, 2015 / Marzili School, Bern, 2019). In 2013, he was awarded the Swiss Art Award for Architecture for his gravity-based structure “Equilibrium.”

For more information about the practice and its projects, please visit: http://www.rossbauer.com