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Gwendolyn and Guillane
Kerschbaumer
Gwendolyn was born in 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria
and is Austrian / French.
She received a Bachelor in Visual Arts with a
concentration in sculpture from Duke University, NC.
She received her Master in Architecture from Harvard
University and a Master in Advanced Architectural
Studies (sustainable building) from the ETH, Zurich.
Among
others,
Gwendolyn
worked
at
the
architectural offices of Peter Eisenman Architects
New York, Kleihues und Kleihues Berlin, MVRDV
Rotterdam and Wiel Arets Architects Amsterdam.
Gwendolyn was head of research at ‘laba’ / EPFL
for 3 years, where she researched contemporary
developments in the fields of architecture, urban
design and planning.
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Guillane was born in 1981 in Innsbruck, Austria and is
Austrian / French.
She completed an art foundation program in Paris
before studying Art History and Archaeology at the
Sorbonne in Paris, receiving a DEUG. She went on to
study Product Design at Central Saint Martins where
she graduated in 2006.
Guillane worked for several years as an interior
designer for B3designers in London before starting
Atelier Areti with her sister Gwendolyn.
