Diener & Diener Architekten

Diener & Diener was established in 1976, upon Roger Diener’s joining his father’s firm. Today, the firm is based in Basel and Berlin and managed by Roger Diener. Ever since the beginning of his career, has also taught architecture: 1986–1989 as professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), and as a guest lecturer at many universities internationally. Since 1999, he has been professor of Architecture and Design at the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and one of the four initiators and manager of ETH Studio Basel / Contemporary City Institute. Their award-winning contributions to competitions, including the extensions to the Zollverein Mine in Essen in 1999, the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome in 2000 and the development of the Spree Triangle in Berlin in 2004, are almost as well-known as their buildings. Currently, the projects commissioned for the University of Malmö and Novartis headquarters in Basel are, among other projects, nearing completion.