May 11, 2020· Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, (respectively, born April 19, 1950, Basel, Switzerland; born May 8, 1950, Basel ), Swiss architects who, as founders (1978) of the firm Herzog & de Meuron, were known for their reappropriation of traditional architectural elements and their inventive use of both natural and artificial materials.The pair was jointly awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in ...