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Finding a spatial form for people to live together – that is our profession and our vocation. Regardless of whether this requires buildings or guiding principles, whether it's about building entrances or neighbourhoods, about repair or vision – the creation of places is always at the centre. Place is experienced space – appropriated, charged with meaning, filled with good prospects. Architecture is timeless and contemporary at the same time. Today, being contemporary means achieving a better quality of life with less consumption. This is what we are working on.

SERA – Studio Esch Rickenbacher Architektur emerged from Esch Sintzel Architekten in 2024. 

1st prize 04/2025

Apartment Buildings Wehntalerstrasse,
Zurich

Study commission, 2024. 

Jobs 06/2025

We are looking for interns! 

Wanted to work on ambitious projects in realisation and on competitions.

Event 15.07.25

Keynote Lecture

Lecture by Philipp Esch on the invitation of Studio Piet Eckert Wim Eckert, TU Dortmund.
Baukunstarchiv NRW, Dortmund, 7.00 pm.

Team 06/2025

Office Trip to Rome

26–29 June 2025. 

On our office trip this year, we explored the historic centre as well as the newer districts of Garbatella and Testaccio in the ‘eternal city’. 

Publication 06/2025

Book Launch  

Five Good Swiss Plans/ Fünf gute Schweizer Pläne, edited by Kate Finning & Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Lucerne: Quart-Verlag, 2025. With a contribution by Philipp Esch. 

Publication 05/2025

New Masters & Old Houses

Article by Philipp Esch in the 1st edition of 6850, the new magazine edited by Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio. 

Project 05/2025

Apartment Building Binzmühle- & Friesstrasse 

Start of construction works. 

Zürich-Oerlikon, since 2021. 

Publication 05/2025

Stadthaus für die Pflege 

The «irides» residential, care and retirement centre in Basel is part of the «Werk-Material» collection. 

Werk, Bauen + Wohnen 5/2025. 

Project 05/2025

GISA Housing Scheme

Start of construction works. 

Zurich-Affoltern, since 2021, 
in working partnership with Masswerk Architekten. 

Workbook 2024
Teaching 04/2025

Workbook 2024

The workbook provides an insight into the working processes and the results of the past fall semester at Atelier Esch, USI Mendrisio. 

1st prize 03/2025

Papieri-Areal,
Construction Site B, Cham

Study commission, 2024. 

Project 01/2025

Zwhatt-Areal, 

Construction Site F, Regensdorf

Study commission, 2024. 

Publication 12/2024

Monograph Release

«Esch Sintzel Architekten: Bauten und Projekte/ Buildings and Projects», edited by Martin Tschanz, Zurich: Park Books, 2024.