Interview

14:00 minutes
Swiss German/Subtitles English

After studying to become an interior and furniture designer under Willy Guhl at the School of Arts and Crafts in Zurich (now ZHdK), Verena Huber worked as project manager for Expo 64  in Lausanne. She had no wish to design interiors for wealthy home-builders and so developed an advisory service on homes for everyone, occasionally working with the Swiss Werkbund  to pursue a concept of homes as specified by those who would later live there. 

At her home in Zurich, Verena Huber talks about her family home – the Huber house on the Hackberg in Riehen (BL) is a prime example of avant-garde modernism – and about her views on homes as being part of an open process. 

A contribution from the exhibition "100 Years of Swiss Design".