Berrel Krautler Architekten
10 - 50 employees
We laid the foundation for our future collaboration more than 20 years ago, in September of 1998, on our very first day as students at the ETH Zürich — with the joint design of a bridge. Both of us had just arrived from abroad, bringing influences and ideas that complemented one another reciprocally, Maurice from Australia, where he had earned his BA in Newcastle, Raphael from the Technical University in Innsbruck.
Our start in professional life was fairly spectacular: that very first year, we won competitions for a Mountain Lodge in California, and for the Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. In 2009, we joined forces with Jürg Berrel, Maurice’s father, who had run his own office in Basel since 1968. As Berrel Berrel Kräutler, we were able to complete numerous projects during the ensuing 10 years, among them a schoolhouse in Vouvry, a fire station in Pratteln, the extension of the AHV building in Geneva, and the conversion of St. Jakobshalle in Basel.
Since 2019, we have been increasingly appearing again as Berrel Kräutler Architekten.