About the Author

Barbara Holzer (born in 1968) and Tristan Kobler (born in 1963) studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Both architects lecture as professors at renowned universities. Barbara Holzer worked as a freelancer in the areas of architecture and exhibition design until 1999, when she established her own firm, d-case. Tristan Kobler created around 70 exhibitions as architect, curator and scenographer. He founded Morphing Systems in the same year that Barbara Holzer founded her firm. Since 2004 they jointly direct the firm of Holzer Kobler Architekturen, which carries out projects in the areas of culture and the economy in Switzerland and abroad.