The City and the Commons: Krokodil and Denkallmendpool architects
Andreas Sonderegger (Dipl. Arch. ETH/BSA) is one of the co-founders and partners of pool Architekten. He studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and Design of Tall Buildings at the IIT Chicago. In recent years he has held several teaching positions as professor for architecture at the Hochschule Liechtenstein and as guest professor for architecture at the ETH Zurich and TU Vienna. From 2011 to 2016 Andreas Sonderegger acted as President of BSA Zurich and is currently a board member of BSA Switzerland. He is co-founder and member of the Architects Group Krokodil and has published several books, including Glatt! Manifest für eine Stadt im Werden.
Thomas Friberg (Dipl. Arch. ETH) is an associate at pool architects. After graduating from ETH Zurich in 2003 he worked on the book Switzerland—An Urban Portrait at Studio Basel. He gained experience at Kräuchi Architekten, Basel and David Chipperfield Architects in London before joining pool architects in 2008. He has been leading the competition team there for several years. His interest in commons evolved through his competition entry Denkallmend and the workshop future of Kasernenareal Zurich.
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Marcel Jäggi (MSc ETH Arch) is an architect and researcher who studied architecture at ETH Zurich and CEPT Ahmedabad (India). Before joining the ETH Zurich Architecture of Territory team of Milica Topalović in 2011, he has been collaborating with pool architects on several projects and was a junior member of the architects’ group Krokodil.
