Christian Sumi studied at the ETH Zurich. He has worked for the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) and taught at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, EPFL Lausanne and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Together, Christian Sumi and Marianne Burkhalter founded burkhalter sumi architects in 1984 and their own joint studio in 2021. From 2008 to 2016, they held a shared professorship at the Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio (AAM). In 2024, Christian Sumi and Marianne Burkhalter received the Prix Meret Oppenheim.
