PARABASE is an international collective operating within architecture and urbanism.

Teaching:
2022 BFH AHB, Bern Research and Teaching Assistant
2021 USI AAM, Teaching assistant to Prof. Leopold Banchini
2021 USI AAM, Teaching assistant to Prof. Dorte Mandrup
2020 USI AAM, Teaching assistant to Prof. Carrilho da Graça  
2014 ETSAB, Research and teaching assistant to Prof. Ferrer Forés

Selected Awards:
2023 Seepolizei und Schifffahrtskontrolle Oberrieden. Competition 5th Prize
2023 Areal Walkeweg Nord Basel «Re-use». Competition 1st Prize
2023 “Permanently Temporary” pavilion. Winning proposal. Built
2023 Ideenwettbewerb Bad Rans Sevelen. Shortlisted
2022 Jardín y Pabellón Escénico, Mexico City. Competition 1st Prize
2022 Arqui Próxima. Unveiled Affinities. Selected Project
2021 AJAC Award. Best Curatorship for 'Unveiled Affinities'
2021 AJAC Award. Best Exhibition design
2020 Catalan Pavilion Curator at the Venice Biennale. 2nd Prize
2020 Director Editor of Quaderns 274. 1st Prize
2018 Future Architecture Platform. Selected with Cartha Magazine
2017 Swiss Art Awards. Finalist with Cartha Magazine

Selected Publications:
2023 Hochparterre: 'Ohne vorgefasste Bilder'
2023 Nemausus-Effekt dank zeichenhaftem ReUse am Walkeweg
2023 Parabase Reuses Prefabricated Concrete Elements for a Radical Housing Development in Basel, Switzerland
As editors:
2023 ‘Cartha On Building Identity’. Park Books, Zurich 
2022 Quaderns 274. Poligrafa Editorial, Barcelona
2019 ‘Cartha On the Form of Form’. Park Books, Zurich
2017 ‘Cartha On Making Heimat’. Park Books, Zurich 
2016 ‘Cartha On Relations in Architecture’. Park Books, Zurich 

Selected Lectures and talks:
2024 ‘Walkeweg C und D‘. Lecture at the Swissbau
2023 ‘Some Notes on Elementa‘. Lecture at the University of Basel. BFH AHB
2021 ‘Learning from the Informal’. Lecture at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio
2021 ‘Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe’. Lecture at COAC for the AJAC Awards
2018 ‘Unveiled Affinities: Quaderns in Europe’ with Christoph Gantenbein and Cino Zucchi at COAC Barcelona
2017 ‘L’edition contemporaine en Suisse’. Lecture at HEIA-Fribourg 
2017 ‘Lisboa Paralela’ with Laura Cristea, Thomas Padmanabhan, Christian Müller Inderbitzin at LABA Laboratoire Basel EPFL 
2016 ‘On the Form of Form’ with Daniel Zamarbide and André Tavares at Trienal de Arquitetura de Lisboa 
2016 ‘On Making Heimat’ with Peter Cachola Schmal at the German Pavilion of the Biennale di Architettura di Venezia
2016 ‘The Architecture of the City. A Palimpsest’ with Victoria Easton and Matilde Cassani at Istituto Svizzero Milano 

Selected Exhibitions:
2020 ‘An Emotional Catalogue of Intimate Typologies’ at Visarte Entrée Exhibition 2020, Basel
2019 ‘Unveiled affinities: Quaderns in Europe’ at Construmat. Curator. 
2018 ‘Unveiled affinities: Quaderns in Europe’ at COAC Barcelona. Curator. 
2018 ‘Reading Room’ at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
2017 ‘Books Now’ at Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York.
2016 ‘Cartha on Making Heimat’ at the German Pavilion of the Biennale di Architettura di Venezia.
2016 ‘Cartha On the Form of Form’ at Mae d’Agua in Trienal de Arquitetura de Lisboa. Curator.
2016 ‘Letters to the Mayor’ at Galeria dos Paços do Concelho in Trienal de Arquitetura de Lisboa.

Selected writings:
2020 ‘Den Diskurs Öffnen’. Interview published in Baunetz
2019 ‘What it means cohousing today’. World Economic Forum, 2019
2019 ‘On the notion of cohousing’. Essay at El Pais, 16.10.2019
2017 Cartha On Making Heimat. Park Books, Zurich. Interviews to Saskia Sassen, David Harvey and Iverna McGowan

Team Members:
Valentin Dürselen, Carla Ferrando, Pablo Garrido Arnaiz, Gustavo Kubli, Jan Stiller, Joby Thoppil

Past Members:
Dimitri Kuster, Fernando Gómez, Gerardo Guevara, Narciso Martínez, Sonia Méndez, Juan Pablo Salas

Collaborators:
Mario Monotti, Kosmos Architects, Cierto Estudio, Marina Montresor, Neven Kostik, Michan Architecture, (ab)Normal, Francesco Caminati, Bajet Giramé, Bonell Dòriga, Joan Massagué, Guillem Pujol, Júlia Trias

Projects credits:
2023 “Permanently Temporary” pavilion. Collaboration with Kosmos Architects
2023 Ideenwettbewerb Bad Rans Sevelen. Collaboration with Cierto Estudio
2022 Jardín y Pabellón Escénico. Collaboration with Michan Architecture
2021 Lighthouse in Geneve. Collaboration with (ab)Normal
2018 ‘Unveiled affinities: Quaderns in Europe’. Collaboration with P.Bajet and M. Giramé
2016 ‘Cartha On Making Heimat’. Collaboration with G. Pujol and J. Trias

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