Simon Chessex

Simon Chessex was born in 1975 in Lausanne. He studied architecture at the EPF Lausanne and the ETH Zurich. He completed his Diploma in 2001. Before starting his own firm he was collaborating with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Associates in New York (1997/98), with Devanthéry & Lamunière in Geneva (2001/02) and with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel (2002/04). Since 2005, he is teaching assistant at the lapa and runs in parallel his own firm lacroix | chessex in Geneva, Switzerland.