About Us

Michael Künzle

Michael has been running Gunz & Künzle Architects together with Mathias Gunz since 2012. Raised in St. Gallen, he studied architecture at ETH Zurich and graduated in 2006 under Hans Kollhoff. He then gained professional experience at Diener & Diener Architects in Basel.

In addition to his office work, he has been involved in the ETH chairs of Annette Spiro and Gigon/Guyer and as a guest lecturer at the HSLU. Today, he is increasingly active in juries.

Michael lives with his wife and two children in Zurich.

Mathias Gunz

Mathias studied at ETH Zurich and graduated from ETH Studio Basel. From 2007 to 2017, he was a research assistant at ETH Studio Basel under Roger Diener and Marcel Meili. He has worked in architecture firms in Tokyo and Zurich.

In 2012, he founded the firm Gunz & Künzle Architects with Michael Künzle.
He grew up in St. Gallen and lives in Zurich with his partner and two daughters.

Sandro Christen

Sandro is an architect and project leader at Gunz & Künzle Architekt*innen, where he has worked since 2018.

He is leading the project for the Zurich Vocational School for Construction Trades and co-leading the project for the Allschwil Secondary School.

He studied architecture at ETH Zurich.

Anton Ecke

After completing an internship at horender architekten in Nuremberg, Anton studied at RWTH Aachen University and the University of Coimbra. After completing his bachelor's degree, he began an internship at Gunz & Künzle in May 2025, where he is involved in competitions.

Gilles Gasser

Gilles studied architecture at ETH Lausanne and NTNU Trondheim. In 2022, he graduated under Roberto Gargiani with a thesis entitled “What about Education? – Didactics in Architecture.” He gained professional experience in architecture firms in Basel and Zurich before joining Gunz & Künzle in March 2023, where he has been responsible for competitions ever since.

Gilles draws his inspiration from everyday life and nature. In his free time, he can usually be found on the football field, at the lake, or hiking in the mountains.

Gilles grew up on Lake Zurich and lives in the heart of Zurich's Kreis 4.

Daria Kaczmarzewska

Daria joined Gunz & Künzle in 2023 as an intern, later becoming an architect. She studied architecture at the West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin, Poland, where her master's thesis explored loneliness in architecture and its impact on mental health. Before moving to Switzerland, she worked on large-scale residential projects in Szczecin.

To Daria, architecture is never just about the building — it's about creating a harmonious and cohesive environment. She is particularly passionate about the effect that colours, textures and materials have on the way people experience a space.

Carmen Kempf

Carmen Kempf

Kazutaka Miwa

Kazutaka studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts.
After completing his bachelor's degree, he enrolled on the master's programme at the same university.

Since November 2024, he has been an intern at Gunz & Künzle, working on the Kantonsschule Wattwil and Sekundarschule Allschwil projects.

Lilian Pala

Miguel Ruano

Ariane Senn

Ariane completed her architecture studies at ETH Zurich with a master's project on the urban scale. She gained professional experience at Sergison Bates Architects in London and as an architect at UNARC.

In 2022, she joined Gunz & Künzle Architekt*innen. She initially worked on the Zurich Vocational School project and is currently part of the project team for the Kantonsschule Wattwil.

Prior to pursuing a career in architecture, Ariane studied psychology at the University of Basel, specialising in neuropsychology.

Cristiano Zan

Cristiano studied architecture at the Fine Arts School of São Paulo in Brazil and at FAUP in Porto, Portugal. He worked in different architecture offices in São Paulo before moving abroad, where he joined Arrigoni Architects in London and later Caruso St John Architects in Zurich.

Since 2022 he has been part of the team, first working on the project Bezirksanlage Winterthur and now on the project Sekundarschule Allschwil.

Usually, Tuna (his dog) keeps him company at the office.

Noëmi Zengaffinen

Noëmi studied at ETH Zurich and ETSAB in Barcelona. She then worked at Ruprecht Architekten in Zurich and Florian Nagler Architekten in Munich. At the beginning of 2023, she returned and started her position as an architect at Gunz Künzle Architekt*innen, where she now heads the Kantonsschule Wattwil project.

She is interested in sustainability in construction and has already contributed to publications on clay construction.