ETH Professor Annette Spiro stands in front of the rammed-earth vault she and her students built on the Hönggerberg campus in 2014. (Photograph: Daniel Winkler / ETH Zurich).
ETH Professor Annette Spiro stands in front of the rammed-earth vault she and her students built on the Hönggerberg campus in 2014. (Photograph: Daniel Winkler / ETH Zurich). After 15 years as Professor of Architecture and Construction, Annette Spiro recently retired to become professor emerita. Her lectures and publications inspired a whole generation of architecture students at ETH Zurich. Paulo Mendes da Rocha provides inspiration. Even after returning to Switzerland, Spiro still had Brazil on her mind - or, more specifically, the architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha. Inspired by his work, she decided to write a book about him.
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