Professor

Jonathan Sergison

Graduated from the Architectural Association in 1989 and gained professional experience working for David Chipperfield and Tony Fretton before establishing Sergison Bates architects in 1996. 

The work of the practice has been extensively published and exhibited and many of their buildings have won awards. The practice has also won international recognition for ‘innovative developments in architecture’ (Erich Schelling Medal for Architecture) and architectural excellence (Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal for Architecture) and was invited to participate in the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008 and 2012.

Jonathan Sergison has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association in London, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL), the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Harvard Graduate Design School. He has served on a number of international architectural competition juries and as external examiner at the University of Cambridge. Since 2008, he has been Professor of Architectural Design at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, Switzerland. In addition to his academic commitments, he lectures extensively both in the UK and abroad and writes regularly on architecture.

Barthélémy Reuse, Studio Assistant

studied architecture at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio and HEIA-FR, Fribourg and graduated in 2022 from the Accademia, under Prof. Jonathan Sergison. He gained professional experience in several offices in Switzerland. Since 2022 he has been working at Sergison Bates architekten in Zürich. In 2026 he joined studio Sergison as a teaching assistant.

Flavia Saggese, Studio Assistant

studied architecture at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio where she graduated under Prof. Jonathan Sergison in 2015. She gained experience in several offices in Zürich, including Sergison Bates architekten.
Since 2020 she has been working at Coopi Architekten in Zürich. She joined Studio Sergison as a teaching assistant in 2022.

Cristina Roiz de la Parra Solano, Diploma Assistant

studied architecture at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio and at the ETSA, Madrid and graduated from the Accademia, under Prof. Jonathan Sergison in 2015. She gained experience in several offices in the UK and Switzerland and she has been teaching a design unit at Kingston University of Art in London from 2016 to 2020, recently she founded her own practice. She is currently undertaking a PhD at the ISUP in the Accademia di Architettura. She joined Studio Sergison as a teaching assistant in 2020.

Maria Seline Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Diploma Assistant

studied architecture at ETH, Zurich where she graduated under Prof. Mike Guyer in 2015. She gained experience at Sergison Bates architects both in London and in Zurich, before founding her own practice in 2019. She joined Studio Sergison as a teaching assistant from 2017 to 2020 and again in 2025.