Martina Voser

Martina Voser © Photo by schwarzpictures.com

Martina Voser (b. 1973) is a Swiss landscape architect and since 2024 full professor of landscape architecture. After graduating from the ETH Zurich with a degree in architecture, she pursued her passion for open-space, landscape and territorial topics working in various Swiss landscape architecture offices. In 2004 Martina Voser founded her own practice and is today partner of mavo Landschaften, a landscape office in Zurich which endeavours to find innovative approaches to the challenges of our time - always in search of site- and task-specific solutions. Awarded projects include the Attisholz riverside park, the embedding of the reconstructive structures for Bondo, the Inner Garden and the garden sequence in Zurich. As a member of various commissions and juries, she advocates a careful approach to the wide range of urban and rural spaces. In addition to her practice, she shares her knowledge with the future generation by teaching from 2009 to 2018 at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, From 2020 to 2023 as a visiting professor first at the EPFL then at ETH Zurich. The research of her new chair that is part of the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the Department of Architecture at ETHZ focusses on how to adapt the Swiss cultural landscape to the challenges of the climate change.

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