Ole W. Fischer

Born 1974 in Oberndorf am Neckar.

He studied architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar and at the ETH Zurich (diploma 2001 und dissertation 2008).

Selected essays and projects: »Umnutzung Fliegerhorst Oldenburg«, international urban landscape competition, Oldenburg, 5. prize (2005); »Critical, Post-Critical, Projective? – Szenen einer Debatte« (Scenes of a debate), essay in Archplus 174 (December 2005); »Everyone is talking about the weather – atmospheric spaces and immersive environments between critical reading and projective practice«, essay in Archplus 178 (June 2006) and lecture at the Stylos conference »Projective Landscapes« at the Technical University Delft/Netherlands (2006); »Dekonstruktion gestern und heute« (Deconstructions yesterday and today), podium discussion in the series »Standpunkte« (Points of View) at the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel (2007).

Since 2002 Fischer works as a freelance architect in Zurich and as a research associate at the gta institute of the ETH Zurich, where he will be a visiting professor in fall 2008. In 2005 he was a fellow researcher at the Graduate School of Architecture at Harvard University. 2004/2005 he was awarded the Weimar Fellowship of the Klassik Stiftung.

Ole W. Fischer founded the »MittelBau« discussion platform at the ETH. He is the co-organizer with Reto Geiser of the »Explorations« events series for the Swiss pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia 2008, and he is the co-editor of the recently published book »Precisions – Architecture between Sciences and the Arts«, Berlin: Jovis, 2008.