Jürg Conzett

After studying at the ETH Zurich and working for architect Peter Zumthor, Conzett started his own civil engineering office in 1988.

[1] In 1975 Conzett began studying civil engineering at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and ETH Zurich, gaining his diploma in 1980.

[2] Perhaps Conzett's best known works are a series of three pedestrian bridges located on the Veia Traversina [de] trail of the Viamala.

One such project is St Benedict's Chapel, Sumvitg, with his colleague Jürg Buchli, according to the design of architect Peter Zumthor.

[15] Another is a school building in Grono designed with architect Raphael Zuber or the collaboration with the Austrian office Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten for a music center in Liechtenstein.

In the interview for the Swiss Grand Award for Art - Prix Meret Oppenheim 2022, Conzett made the point that reinforced concrete was a great invention of the 20th century, and that "the principle of pre-tensioning can be applied to all materials.