Background
Lamunière, Inès was born on October 25, 1954 in Geneva. Daughter of Jean Marc Lamunière and Marie Claire De Planta.
Lamunière, Inès was born on October 25, 1954 in Geneva. Daughter of Jean Marc Lamunière and Marie Claire De Planta.
After studying architecture at the EPF Lausanne, where she graduated in 1980, she continued her training in architectural theory and history as a member of the Swiss Institute in Rome.
Lamunière became an assistant lecturer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich under Professor Werner Oechslin. In 1991 she was appointed as adjunct professor, Design Studio Master I-III at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich and in 1994, as full professor in Architecture and Design at EPF Lausanne. In parallel to her teaching and since 2001, she set up the research team and laboratory (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne LAMU) of which she is head
Inès Lamunière was chair of the Department of Architecture at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne from 2008 to 2011.
She co-edited the Geneva-based architecture journal Faces –Journal d’architectures from 1989 to 2004. In 1996, 1999 and 2008 she was Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
Recent projects of the firm include the newly completed Lausanne Opera House, which she designed with fellow architect Patrick Devanthérailway Her projects and buildings have been exhibited (most recently in Paris in 2010) and widely published.