Maurus Schifferli

Maurus Schifferli (born 11 January 1973, Wilderswil) is a Swiss landscape architect and professor.

Maurus Schifferli completed a four-year apprenticeship as a landscape architect with Kienast Vogt Partner in Zurich and Bern in 1994, and studied landscape architecture at the Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil from 1995 to 2000.

In 1999, he worked at the Büro für Gestaltung in Munich and founded the landscape architecture firm 4d in Bern with Simon Schöni in 2000 and his own landscape architecture firm in 2014, which has offices in Bern, Basel, Lugano and Jakarta.

Schifferli taught under Eberhard Stauss at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (1999), under Valerio Olgiati at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (2002), at the University of Applied Sciences Erfurt (2005), at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Burgdorf (2005–2017), under Raphael Zuber at ETH Zurich (2018) and since 2025 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Maurus Schifferli was invited to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018.