Marcel Meili and Markus Peter founded their architectural office in Zurich, Switzerland, twenty years ago, and have recently opened a subsidiary in Munich, Germany. Meili Peter develop projects of all scales and in many different fields and with a vast variety of programmes, rather than specialising on certain types of buildings and tasks. Urban planning and complex constructive solutions have become an emphasis of their work, though. This first comprehensive monograph on Meili Peter's work presents their buildings as well as unrealised projects, concepts and ideas. The richly illustrated and elaborately designed book combines texts, images, plans and drawings, forming a compendium of Meili Peter's architectural practice. It also includes external views on their work with essays by renowned international fellow architects, such as Adolf Krischanitz and Hermann Czech (Austria), Josep Lluis Mateo (Spain), the acclaimed architect and civil engineer Jürg Conzett and by the well known architectural photographer Heinrich Helfenstein (Switzerland). Important built projects: Platform roof-extension, central railway station, Zurich, Switzerland Swiss College of Timber Industry (HF Wood, Berne University of Applied Sciences) Biel/Bienne, Switzerland Swiss Re's Center for Global Dialogue, Ruschlikon near Zurich, Switzerland Park Hyatt hotel complex, Zurich, Switzerland Helvetia Patria insurance headquarters, Milan, Italy Urban planning and residential buildings at Billancourt, Paris, France Masterplan and headquarters for Suddeutscher Verlag, Munich, Germany. AUTHORS: Marcel Meili is a professor for urban planning at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and co-head of the university's Institute for the Contemporary City in Basel. Together with Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Roger Diener he published the much reviewed study Switzerland - An Urban Portrait (Birkhauser, Basel 2006). 435 colour, 534 b/w illustrations Markus Peter is a professor for design and building construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Meili Peter's book Play Pentagon (Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich 2005, German-language only) on their project for a new football stadium in Zurich was awarded one of Switzerland's most beautiful books 2005.
