Prof. Sacha Menz

Sacha Menz:
    Sacha Menz, born 25 May 1963 in Vienna, has been Full Professor for Architecture and Building Process at ETH-Zurich since October 2004. www.bauprozess.arch.ethz.ch

1989: Architectural degree at ETH. Starts profession with Prof. Dolf Schnebli, Tobias Ammann and Prof. Flora Ruchat-Roncati

1990-1997: Establishes architectural firm Sacha Menz and Kuno Schuhmacher Architects, Zurich.

1991-1997: Establishes Joran Sport Co. for design and production of High-End bicycles in Zurich, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Since 1997: Co-Founder of SAM Architects and Partners in Zurich. Several architectural competitions and built projects in Switzerland and abroad, www.samarch.ch

Since 1997: Co-establishes the real estate firm Staub Holding Inc. in Switzerland, several developments follow

Since 2001: Member of numerous architectural juries, member of the Architectural Board of Consultants for the city of Ostfildern, Germany and member of several foundations in Switzerland

2002: Member of the Board, from 2005-2011 President of the SIA (Swiss Engineers and Architects Association), Section-Zurich.

Since 2004: Member of the FSA (Federation of Swiss Architects)

2008-2011: Member of the Board Platform Future Buildings, a Research Platform for Sustainable Building Technologies

2008: Public release of Three Books on the Building Process, VDF Editors, English edition in March 2010. New edition published in 2014

2009: Establishes MAS (Master of Advanced Studies) and CAS (Certificate of Advanced Studies) at ETH-Zurich, currently running.

2009 - 2017: Head of the newly established Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA) ETH-Zurich

2011-2015: Dean and Vice-Dean at the Department of Architecture, ETH-Zurich

2012-2014: Leader of Module X (Housing) at the Future-Cities-Lab in Singapore

Since 2013: Establishes spin-off Arch-Tec-Lab Inc. in Zurich. http://www.ita.arch.ethz.ch/archteclab.html

2014-2015: Deputy Director of the NCCR (National Centre of Competence in Research) in Digital Fabrication

Since 2015: Co-Principal Investigator Dense and Green Building Typologies at the Future-Cities-Lab in Singapore

2015: Publication of Public Space Evolution in High-Density Living in Singapore

2015 - 2018: Member of the Board of Directors of SIA (Swiss Engineers and Architects Association)

2016: Founder of the Digital-Network-Switzerland, https://netzwerk-digital.ch

Since 2017: Member of Reviewing Board for Clusters of Excellence, DFG (German Research Foundation)

Since 2018: Member of the Strategy Commission of ETH-Zurich

2018: https://map.arch.ethz.ch

2018: https://ioe-app.ethz.ch

Since 2019: Executive Board Future-Cities-Lab GLOBAL