Torsten Skoetz

Architect

Zurich, Switzerland

About

Experienced Architect with a demonstrated history of working in the architecture & planning industry. Skilled in ArchiCAD, Urban Planning, Design Management of mixed-use buildings, hotels and hospitals. Strong arts and design professional with a certificate of Fachhochschule Hanover and of participation focused in Masterclass with Steven Holl, Yehuda Safran; Jury: Christophe Cornubert, Wiel Arets, Andrew McNair, from Berlage-Institut Amsterdam. Current enrollments in online-Masterclasses of Frank Gehry in architecture and Annie Leibovitz in photography complete my work-experience in Germany, Spain and Switzerland. A connecting theme of both masterclasses is history and story-telling, which also can be found in my daily work and fit best to the recently attended talk of architect Peter Zumthor and filmmaker Wim Wenders at Kunsthaus Bregenz.

Experience

  • Architect at BFB Architekten
    Aug 2014 - Present · 11 yrs 11 mos

    Mitarbeit: Erweiterung St Claraspital, Basel; Wettbewerbe

  • photographs and texts at additional: photography and texts
    1996 - Present · 30 yrs 6 mos

    Photos + texts in architectural contexts: 1996 Text architecture in Hamburg, archigraf, Belgrade 2000 Photos of musicschool Hamburg by EMBT, sel. by Benedetta Tagliabue, AIT + Intelligente Architektur 9-2000, pp. 24 ff, Verlagsanst. Alexander Koch 2014 Renderings for Justus Dahinden „Architecture - Form and Emotion", Karl Krämer Verlag Stuttgart, 2014, p. 89, 90-91 + presentation book-launch at Hochparterre Bücher AG in Zürich, collab Prof. Dr. Justus Dahinden, Prof. Laurent Stalder, ETH Zürich, Gudrun u Karl Krämer 2016 Photo of exhib. „Kurt Schwitters: Merz", Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich, sel. by Zaha Hadid Arch., London , Archdaily, Architects newspaper, Plataforma de Arquitectura 11/2016 Photos for the film "imagine la Suisse" about Swiss architecture, cur. by Mateja Vehovar + Stefan Jauslin, S AM, Schweizerisches Arch.-Museum Basel 2020/ 21 feat. photos by Hellozurich (Instagram, Facebook), we love architecture (Instagram), visit Zurich (Instagram), afasia 08/09/2021 Group. „Spaziergänge”, Kulturschüür Eierbrecht, ZH 12/2021 Group. Swiss Photo Club, Photobastei, Zurich. My entry among top 50 11/2022 V international Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design, The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg , Special mention in the Best Architectural Design for Museum CAT. 03/2023 AI Architecture 2023 Competition, Arch-Hive, Vancouver, Honorable Mention, Treehouses, Midjourney 03/04/2023 Group. Swiss Photo Club, Galerie l‘humanitart, Genève 08/09/2023 Group. + receipt book Arte e ricette witikonesi, Kulturschüür Eierbrecht, ZH 10/11/2023 Group. Swiss Photo Club, MABE-Gallery, Genève 2024 Group. 16b ZH, Diasp 2024 Public. The AI-Art-Magazine, HH 2025 Group. Expometro Passeig de Gràcia, BCN 2025 Group. Kunstrausch 16 B 2025 Group. Kunst Salon Kulturschüür Eierbrecht 2025 Duo-Exh. Eskapaden des Absurden, w. kat08, Joss Toledo Art, ZH 2025 Expometro, LED-Tafel, HongKong

  • Masterclsss online, with Annie Leibovitz at MasterClass
    Dec 2017 - Mar 2018 · 4 mos

    Online Masterclass with Annie Leibovitz: Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography Annie brings you into her studio and onto her shoots to teach you everything she knows about portraiture and telling stories through image

  • Masterclass, online, with Frank Gehry at Gehry Partners, LLP
    May 2017 - 2017 · -3 mos

  • Architect at Prof. Dr. J. Dahinden
    Apr 2006 - Jul 2014 · 8 yrs 4 mos

    Mitarbeit: Monographie "Architektur - Form und Emotion", Karl Krämer Verlag 2014; aquabasilea/ Raurica Nova in Pratteln bei Basel; Wohnungen Acheregg; ZN-Hotel Zürich; schwimmendes Hotel für Qatar; Kirche der göttlichen Barmherzigkeit in Ladce, Slovakei; Wettbewerb Naturmuseum St. Gallen; Wettbewerb Hotel OLMA St. Gallen; Wettbewerb Residency Suites Bürgenstock; Entwicklung und Konzepte THE SPRINGS Florida; Konzepte und Entwicklung Hotel Baar / Zug;