1962 to 1969 Architectural studies in USA and Switzerland
1969 Diploma
1969 at the ETH Lausanne
1970-1978 Staff member, then head of R&D in facade industry and system construction; from 1978 lecturer at the EPFL and visiting professor at the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture - Paris
1978-82 Senior assistant at the Department of Materials Science of the EPFL
1985 doctorate
1982-1992 Project leader and lecturer at the Physics Department, Solar Energy Laboratory of the EPFL
1978-1992 Member of the project management of several impulse programs
1993-2007 Professor at the University of Karlsruhe, Head of the Institute for Industrial Building Production (now Department of Building Lifecycle Management)
Since 2007 Member of scientific advisory boards in Germany, France and England. Seminars in USA and China, Associate Editor of "Building Research and Information". Research fields: Lifecycle analysis of buildings and building stock, product modelling and distributed collaborative planning. Knowledge modelling.
