Gion A. Caminada belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Gion A. Caminada as Swiss architect.
Gion A. Caminada was born at Vrin in 1957. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at ETH Zurich.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Gion A. Caminada is still practising, and the body of work is not yet complete.
Achievements
- Trained at ETH Zurich
