Philip Ursprung (*1963) earned his PhD in art history at Freie Universität Berlin after studying in Geneva, Vienna, and Berlin. Since 2011, he is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zurich and he was Dean of the Department of Architecture at ETH from 2017–2019. As a writer and curator, Ursprung has contributed to numerous publications and exhibitions. In 2017 he was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture.
