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Leandra Graf is a Swiss artist and emerging architect whose practice bridges fine art, architecture, and humanitarian research. Working primarily with photography, drawing, and material experimentation, her work explores notions of housing, belonging, and displacement. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), a BA in Architecture from ETH Zurich, and a Master's in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture from UIC Barcelona. Although she considers Switzerland home, she leads a nomadic life, engaging with how artistic and architectural processes can shape connections between people, place, and culture.
Education
2024-2025 MSc International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture, UIC Barcelona
2024 IFRC Humanitarian Shelters and Settlements Course
2019-2023 BA Architecture, Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH)
2016-2019 BA Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
2015-2016 Preliminary Design Course, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Experience
June-Sept. 2025 Internship with the INGO "Every Shelter", Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda
June 2022 - Dec. 2024 Freelance Architect, in collaboration with Baettig Baurealisationen, Lucerne & AMZ Engenharia, Tarrafal, Cabo Verde
June 2022 - Aug. 2023 Student Assistant, Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zurich
Languages
German
Swiss German
English
French
Italian
Cape Verdean Creole
Contact
Commissions & collaboration leandra.graf@hotmail.de
Photography @the.work.of.leandra
Based Sempach, Switzerland (nomadic practice)