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Philipp Schaerer (b. 1972) is a Swiss artist and lecturer whose work critically engages with digital image production, examining the increasingly blurred boundaries between the virtual and the physical.

After studying architecture at EPFL, Philipp Schaerer worked from the year 2000 as an architect and knowledge manager at Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. He is the author of many well-known architectural visualizations for the same firm and has significantly contributed to new digital imagery standards in the architectural context through his work. Between 2003 and 2007, he directed the postgraduate program in CAAD under Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Since 2010, alongside his artistic practice, Philipp Schaerer has lectured at various Swiss universities and, since 2014, has been a visiting professor at EPFL’s School of Architecture, where he teaches a series of courses grouped under the name “Constructing the View.”

Schaerer’s works are continuously published and exhibited, and represented in several private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the National Museum of Norway in Oslo, the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) in Chicago, the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM), and the Fotomuseum in Winterthur. In 2023, Schaerer was honored with the Art Prize of the City of Thun. He lives and works in Zurich and Steffisburg, Switzerland.