Inès Lamunière is remembered for work that changed how the next generation built.
The record lists Inès Lamunière as Swiss architect.
Inès Lamunière was born at Geneva in 1954. Her recorded nationality is Switzerland. She trained at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Post-war architecture built at state scale: housing, new towns and civic megastructures, with results that are still being judged.
She is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Her best-known building is Opéra de Lausanne. Of all the arts, architecture is the one whose failures are hardest to remove.
Recognition followed: Prix Méret-Oppenheim.
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.
Achievements
- Notable work: Opéra de Lausanne
- Prix Méret-Oppenheim
- Trained at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
