About
Barão-Hutter realises poetic projects in the fields of architecture, urban planning and landscape design. The studio collaborates intensively with outstanding partners, specialists and craftsmen throughout all phases of the projects. In 2015, Ivo Barão and Peter Hutter were admitted to the Federation of Swiss Architects FSA. In 2022/23, they were guest lecturers at the Technical University of Munich.
Ivo Barão (1986, MSc Arch FAUP OASRN FSA), born in the far south of Portugal, studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto and at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio.
Peter Hutter (1984, MSc Arch ETH FSA) grew up in north-east Switzerland and graduated from ETH Zurich. He worked in the office of Peter Zumthor and founded his own studio together with Ivo Barão in 2010. Since 2020 he has been invited as a juror in several public competitions.
Team
Laura Wollenhaupt, Serena Santini, Chiara Tessarollo, Logan Allen, Seraina Jenal, Caroline Pachoud, Yanosh Simenic, Katrin Schmid, Sarah Däbritz, Marvin Schillig
News
The exhibition «What Was Could Be» with a project by Barão-Hutter opens on the 4th of April 2025 at 7:00 pm, at the Swiss Architecture Museum SAM in Basel
Exhibition opening on the 12th of March 2025 at 7:00 pm, at the Architekturforum Zürich, «Architecture of Memory» with a text contribution by Ivo Barão
From the 1st of February to 16th of March 2025, the exhibition «Ceci n‘est pas un portrait» can be seen at the Centro Cultural «Mosteiro de Ancede» in Baião (Portugal)
Film premiere on the 14th of December 2024 at 6:00 pm, Profiler Film Works, Zurich: Director Sebastian Vargas shows his short film about the Alte Reithalle
From the 4th of November to the 2nd of December 2024, the exhibition «Begin Again. Fail Better» was on show at Archizoom at the EPFL – including drawings by Barão-Hutter
The book launch of «Ceci n‘est pas un portrait» took place at the end of October 2024 at the Cinema Passos Manuel in Porto. With in the book: works by Barão-Hutter
Events
EXHIBITION
The exhibition «What Was Could Be» by the S AM – in collaboration with the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation, ETH Zurich – looks at the past, present and future of monument preservation. Barão-Hutter’s multi-disciplinary theatre, dance and symphonic music venue is part of the exhibition curated by Yuma Shinohara.
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EXHIBITION
Exhibition «Architecture of Memory» at the Architekturforum Zürich, with contributions by various architects, including a text by Ivo Barão, opening on the 12th of March 2025 at 7:00 pm
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FILM
Premiere on the 14th of December 2024 at 6:00 pm, Profiler Film Works, Pfingstweidstrasse 31, Zurich. Film director Sebastian Vargas shows his work about our conversion of the Alte Reithalle Aarau
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LIGHT ON BLOCKS OF ICE
Lecture by Peter Hutter with lighting expert Daniel Tschudy at the Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale in Zurich on working and designing with daylight, on the 28th of November 2024 at 12:00 am
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BOOK LAUNCH
Presentation of «Ceci n‘est pas un portrait», an architectural publication by Ana Luisa Soares, Filipe Magalhães, João Paupério and Maria Rebelo. Among other projects, it portrays the Adega Baía da Arruda by Barão-Hutter. The book launch will take place on the 25th of October 2024 at 9:30 pm at Cinema Passos Manuel in Porto (PT)
RUINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Lecture by Ivo Barão at the Institute of Architecture IAR of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, on the 7th of March 2024 at 6:00 pm
CHALCHERA
Final Critiques at the Technical University of Munich TUM, Guest Lecturership Barão-Hutter, Vorhoelzer Forum, on the 19th of July 2023 at 10:00 am
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VERNISSAGE
Exhibition opening in Trogen AR (CH) with design works by students of the Technical University of Munich TUM, visiting lecturer Barão-Hutter, in the Waschhaus at Landsgemeindeplatz, on the 3th of March 2023 at 5:00 pm
KANTOREI
Final Critiques at the Technical University of Munich TUM, visiting lecturer Barão-Hutter, Vorhoelzer Forum, on the 8th of February 2023 at 10:00 am
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BESPOKE
Lecture by Peter Hutter with designer Michele Rondelli (4spaces) on the creative implementation of textiles in the Alte Reithalle, Schweizer Baumuster-Centrale Zurich, on the 13th of October 2022 at 6:00 pm
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AWARD
Award ceremony of «Die Besten» 2021 at the Museum für Gestaltung in Zurich, the conversion of the Alte Reithalle by Barão-Hutter wins the Public Award and the third Jury Prize in the architecture category, awarded by Hochparterre, on the 7th of December 2021 at 7:00 pm
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WERTERHALT
Lecture by Peter Hutter, followed by a panel discussion with art historian Ludmila Seifert and restorer Doris Warger, moderated by ethicist Jean-Daniel Strub, Architekturforum St.Gallen, on the 4th of October 2021 at 7:30 pm
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Invitations
HSLU, Studio Balissat Kaçani, Lucerne, 2025
ETH, Prof. A. Deplazes, Zurich, 2024
University of Liechtenstein, Studio Meister/Rist, 2024
SBCZ, Baumuster-Centrale, Zurich, 2024
FAUP, More than Housing, Porto, 2024
HSLU, Atmosphere and Use, Lucerne, 2024
WAPW, Atelier Karol Żurawski, Warsaw, 2023
ETH, guest professor Sauter von Moos, Zurich, 2023
USI-ARC, Porto Academy, Mendrisio, 2023
OST, Academy of Architecture, St.Gallen, 2023
HSLU, Atmosphere and Use, Lucerne, 2023
AFO KK, Forum Konstanz Kreuzlingen, 2023
ZHAW, Blue Hall, Winterthur, 2023
ETH, Prof. C. Kerez, Fondamenta, Zurich, 2022
HSLU, Technology and Architecture, Lucerne, 2022
TUM, start of visiting lectureship, Munich, 2022
Material Talk, Baumuster-Centrale, Zurich, 2022
Daylight Symposium, Basel, 2022
TUM, Design and Creation, Munich, 2022
57th Solothurn Film Festival, Focus, 2022
ZHAW, Department of Architecture, Winterthur, 2022
HEAD, Haute école d‘art et design, Geneva, 2021
HSG, University of St.Gallen, Sociology, 2021
HSLU, In-Depth Study, Lucerne, 2021
TUM, Urban Architecture, Munich, 2021
AFO, Architecture Forum, St.Gallen, 2021
archi.summit, Carpintarias S. Lázaro, Lisbon, 2019
University of Liechtenstein, Studio Staub, 2019
EPFL, Prof. Harry Gugger, laboratory Basel, 2018
HSLU, Technology and Architecture, Lucerne, 2018
AFO, Architecture Forum Zurich, 2017
AFO, Architecture Forum Thun, 2017
USI-ARC, Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio, 2016
FHNW, Department of Architecture, Basel, 2016
ETH, Prof. Gion Caminada, Zurich, 2015
City of Zurich, Urban Planning Department, 2015
TUM, Department of Architecture, Munich, 2015
Bauhaus University, Weimar, 2014
Accademia d‘Architettura, Mendrisio, 2014
ETH, Prof. Marc Angélil, Zurich, 2013
ETH, Prof Tom Emerson, Zurich, 2013
RWTH, Faculty of Architecture, Aachen, 2013
Universitat Internacional Catalunya, Barcelona, 2013
FSA, Federation of Swiss Architects, Lucerne, 2012
Hochparterre bookshop, Zurich, 2012
Publications
CECI N’EST PAS UN PORTRAIT
The book published by Ana Luisa Soares, Filipe Magalhães, João Paupério and Maria Rebelo at Circo de Ideias examines the present and future of Portuguese architecture. The works collected in the publication and shown in exhibitions – including those by Barão-Hutter – were portrayed photographically by Francisco Ascensão. The photographic works are accompanied by texts by various authors, including Philip Ursprung, Mark Lee, Claudio Schneider, Michaela Türtscher, Suzuko Yamada, Yushi Sasada, Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares, João Paupério, Maria Rebelo, Giulio Galasso and Natalia Voroshilova. Published in 2024 by Circo de Ideias, 210 × 297mm, English, design by João Araújo and Rita Huet, EUR 40.00 (EU)
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BEGIN AGAIN. FAIL BETTER
The book, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Olten, brings together 199 early design drawings by architects. Like 50 other contemporary Swiss architecture offices, Barão-Hutter has contributed with two hand drawings. The selection is complemented by original drawings by Swiss and European architects from the 16th to 20th centuries. The illustrations are accompanied by essays that provide a critical and historical framework. Short commentaries by international architects, collectors, historians and teachers conclude the volume. Published in 2024 by Kunstmuseum Olten, Helen Thomas, Dorothee Messmer, Katja Herlach and Manuel Montenegro, paperback, German, 216 pages, 300 x 225mm, CHF 49.00 (CH)
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CASABELLA 929
The professional journal from Milan shows and discusses in detail the conversion of the Alte Reithalle into a house for performing arts and symphonic music, issue no. 929, text by Federico Tranfa, English and Italian, Mondadori Media spa, CHF 27.00 (CH), EUR 15.00 (IT)
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BROKEN SPACES
Anouk Gyssler and Elias Kurth have followed the transformation of the Reithalle into a multi-disciplinary venue for theatre, dance and music as author and dancer. They portray a space that has long been there, but is being reinvented. The publication also marks the conclusion of ‘Broken Spaces Are More Likely’ – a dance project that exposed itself to the conditions, risks and resistance of the construction process from 2018 to 2021 and staged the space in transition. Edited by Anouk Gyssler and Elias Kurth, design by Tobias Jäggli, images by Luca Schaffer, German, 240 pages, 210 × 280mm, full colour, linen cover, CHF 86.00 (CH)
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LIBRARY BOOK
A photographic and literary stroll through the library and its surroundings, by Katalin Deér and Julia Weber. Edited by Barão-Hutter, graphics and concept by Samuel Bänziger. Printed on gloss 115g/sqm, German, 68 pages, 250 × 335mm, full colour, published by Jungle Books, CHF 39.00 (CH), EUR 36.00 (EU)
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MODUS OPERANDI
The studio‘s manifesto book from 2012, 72 pages, 110 × 170 mm, with an inserted individual selection of reference images, CHF 59.00 (CH), EUR 49.00 (EU)
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Reviews
HOCHPARTERRE, competitions, n.4, Zurich, 2023
dB, deutsche bauzeitung, n.1, Stuttgart, 2023
TEC21, n.39, Zurich, 2022
FIRST, timber engineering magazine, 4/22, Zurich, 2022
Bauwelt, n.8, Berlin, 2022
HOCHPARTERRE, n.3, Zurich, 2022
Hier und Jetzt, New Year‘s Gazette, Aarau, 2022
HOCHPARTERRE, themed issue, Zurich, 2022
CASABELLA, n.929, Milan, 2022
Umbauen + Renovieren, n.1, Schlieren, 2022
werk, bauen + wohnen, n.4, Zurich, 2022
HOCHPARTERRE, n.9, Zurich, 2021
Umbauen + Renovieren, n.5, Schlieren, 2021
HOCHPARTERRE, n.12, Zurich, 2021
werk, build + live, n.5, Zurich, 2020
MODULOR, NZZ Specialist Media, n.3, Urdorf, 2017
AFO Thun, U40, Staempfli Verlag, Bern, 2017
O MUNDO NOS NOSSOS OLHOS, Lisbon, 2016
archithese, Swiss Performance, n.1, Zurich, 2016
werk, bauen + wohnen, n.6, Zurich, 2015
MAP, Architecture Programme, n.6, Munich, 2015
Saiten, n.242, culture magazine, St.Gallen, 2015
BAUMEISTER, issue B5, Munich, 2013
Saiten, n.227, culture magazine, St.Gallen, 2013
werk, bauen + wohnen, n.1/2, Zurich, 2013
archithese, Swiss Performance, n.1, Zurich, 2013
TEC21, n.20, Zurich, 2012
werk, bauen + wohnen, n.6, Zurich, 2012
HOCHPARTERRE, n.6/7, Zurich, 2012
TRACÉS, sia, n.3, Ecublens, 2011
HOCHPARTERRE, n.9, Zurich, 2010
DÉDALO, n.7, Porto, 2010
darco magazine, n.13, Matosinhos, 2010