Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani founded his own architectural firm in 1980, he was director of the German Architecture Museum (DAM) from 1990-94 and professor at the Stadelschule in Frankfurt, since 1994 professor of the history of urban design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), and since 2010 head of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich.