An earlier member of his family, the musician Martin Vogt (Musiker) [de], was responsible for the sacred music in the same cathedral.

In 1969 Lüchinger left Switzerland and worked in the Michael Scott office in Dublin from 1969 to 1970, which was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 1975.

Here he came into contact with the international architecture scene and the published buildings by the Dutch architects Aldo van Eyck, Herman Hertzberger, Piet Blom and Jaap Bakema.

[1] In the 1990s, Lüchinger worked in Switzerland for a number of years, including as a partner and design architect in the Werner Künzler office in Arbon, with whom he had already cooperated in St. Gallen from 1965 to 1969.

In 1976 he commissioned Arnulf Lüchinger to write a book on structuralism after the theme number "Strukturalismus" in Bauen+Wohnen 1/1976 had been well received in the professional world.