Charles O. Job

Charles O. Job was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and studied architecture at Oxford Brookes University, taking a diploma in architecture and a master’s in urban design, before working in practices in London, Paris and Zürich. He taught for years as a junior faculty member at ETH Zürich and was appointed professor of architectural design theory at the Berne University of Applied Sciences in 2008, where he still teaches part time.

His studio, based in Zürich, works across architecture, interior, product, furniture and lighting design, treating architecture at a variety of scales. The thread through it is a search for simple innovation: plywood furniture, the SKETCH armchair, objects, and pavilion and exhibition projects such as the Swiss Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale and the Africa Pavilion at Salone Satellite.