Marianne Burkhalter

Marianne Burkhalter

Marianne Burkhalter has worked as an architect in Florence (Superstudio), New York and Los Angeles (Studio Works) and was an auditor at the University of Princeton. She has taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) in Los Angeles and at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Together, Christian Sumi and Marianne Burkhalter founded burkhalter sumi architects in 1984 and their own joint studio in 2021. From 2008 to 2016, they held a shared professorship at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio (AAM). In 2024, Christian Sumi and Marianne Burkhalter received the Prix Meret Oppenheim.