Jacques Herzog in Conversation with Grace La

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Jacques Herzog studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich under Aldo Rossi and Dolf Schnebli from 1970 to 1975. Together with Pierre de Meuron, in 1978, he established Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. The practice has realized many notable public projects including the Tate Modern in London, the National Stadium in Beijing, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, M+ in Hong Kong, and Calder Gardens in Philadelphia. Herzog was a visiting professor at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 1983, and at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1989 and from 1994 to 2014. From 1999 to 2018, he was a professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich—Department of Architecture, Network City and Landscape, and co-founded the ETH Studio Basel—Contemporary City Institute. In 2001, Herzog and Pierre de Meuron were awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In 2015, they co-founded the non-profit foundation Jacques Herzog und Pierre de Meuron Kabinett, Basel, comprising three sub-Kabinetts—architecture, art, and photography—to keep these holdings intact as a cultural asset and work with them in their specificity.

Grace La is Professor and Chair of the Harvard GSD Department of Architecture. Together with James Dallman, she established LA DALLMAN, exploring architect’s agency in the civic recalibration of infrastructure, public space, and challenging sites. LA DALLMAN engages in catalytic projects of diverse scale-- including civic spaces, bridges, houses, historic and mid-century modern buildings. The practice has presented at the National Building Museum, the New Museum, the Danish Architectural Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Houston MFA, the Chicago Architecture Biennial and others. LA DALLMAN is the recipient of numerous professional honors from the AIA, BSA, Chicago Atheneum, the Architecture League of New York, Rice Design Alliance, and Progressive Architecture. Their monograph entitled LA DALLMAN Middle Front, is forthcoming. La has served as the founding Chair of the GSD’s Practice Platform, and Director of the MArch Programs. She is also creator and host of the Talking Practice podcast. A graduate of Harvard College, AB magna cum laude, and a John Harvard Scholar, La earned her MArch from the GSD with thesis distinction, winning the Clifford Wong Housing Prize.

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