Sharing Space: Teilen von Sakral- und Kirchenräumen.

Anja Beer was born in Aarau in 1979. After completing her apprenticeship as a architectural draftsman at Weber Architekten in Beinwil am See (1995–1999), she studied architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland in Muttenz, where she received her degree in 2005.

During her studies, she completed an internship at Christ & Gantenbein in Basel. This was followed by positions at Bachelard Wagner Architekten and at Miller & Maranta (2006–2009). Since 2010, she has co-directed the firm Beer Merz Architekt:innen in Basel with David Merz.

In 2018, she was admitted to the Swiss Architects’ Association (BSA). Since 2023, she has been a member of the Townscape Commission of the municipality of Riehen. In 2024, she was elected co-president of the BSA Switzerland alongside Lilitt Bollinger and simultaneously took on a two-semester visiting professorship at ETH Zurich.

Andreas Hindemann is the master builder of Basel Cathedral. In this role, he oversees the ongoing restoration work at Basel Cathedral. He is also the executive director of the Basel Cathedral Building Guild Foundation. The foundation currently employs eight staff members (stonemasons, stone sculptors, and restorers). The Münsterbauhütte’s current main project, under the overall project management of Andreas Hindemann, is the restoration of the tower of the Neo-Gothic Elisabethenkirche in Basel.

Since October 2002, he has also been employed as an architect and construction manager by the Evangelical Reformed Church of Basel-Stadt. In this role, Andreas Hindemann carries out various types of construction projects, such as renovations, repairs, and expansions of parish halls and parsonages, and in particular the restoration of churches from various architectural eras spanning from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. A new church in Bettingen, designed by him, was also completed and opened in November 2021.