Dialogue: Peter Zumthor and Bijoy Ramachandran

A CONVERSATION ACROSS CULTURES
Swissnex / SwitzerlandandIndia75

JN Tata Auditorium
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore / 22^nd February 2024

Swiss architect and Pritzker Prize Winner Peter Zumthor in conversation with Bengaluru-based Architect Bijoy Ramachandran.

Swissnex in India, in collaboration with SwitzerlandIndia75, hosted the two renowned architects to discuss bilateral perspectives on architecture in an open format. This was a rare opportunity for

About Peter Zumthor

Trained as cabinet maker at the shop of his father Oscar Zumthor, and as designer and architect at the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, Vorkurs and Fachklasse, as well as at the Pratt Institute, New York, Peter Zumthor was born in 1943 in Basel. He was employed as building and planning consultant and inventarisator of historical villages with the Department for the Preservation of Monuments, Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. In 1978, he established his own architectural practice in Haldenstein, Switzerland. He was also a visiting professor at Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI-ARC, Los Angeles; at the Polytechnic Institute Munich; and at the Graduate School of Design, GSD, Harvard University. He was also professor at the Academy of Architecture and the University of Lugano, Mendrisio.

About Bijoy Ramachandran

Bijoy Ramachandran is an architect and urban designer based in Bengaluru. He is currently a partner at Hundredhands, a studio he founded in 2003 with Sunitha Kondur. Bijoy has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from BMS College of Architecture and a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. He has also attended the Glenn Murcutt Masterclass. Bijoy is currently the Design Chair in the Department of Architecture, BMS College of Architecture, Bengaluru and serves on the Board of Reviewers of SEED, Kochi and the Board of Studies of the Balwant Sheth School of Architecture, Mumbai. Apart from architecture he has also made two films on the Indian architect B.V. Doshi, both directed by Premjit Ramachandran. These films have been screened nationally and
internationally.

Thanks to:
Saraja Cornelia Gantner (Swissnex)
Ruturaj Parikh (Matter)
Parkishith Kalkai, Lavannya K., Ankitha P., and Swarnavalli N. (Hundredhands)
Kiran Kumar (WCFA)
Kukke Subramanya (Kukke Architects & WCFA)
A. Srivathsan (CEPT)