Ernst Gisel (born 1922) is an outstanding figure in Swiss architecture. His buildings, realized since the mid-1940s in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Principality of Liechtenstein, have always set important new accents and stimulated architectural discourse far beyond Switzerland. In his more than six decades of design and construction work, Ernst Gisel never oriented himself to dogmatic programs, theoretical superstructures or fleeting fashions. Nonetheless, his important buildings were always among the most striking solutions to current construction tasks and were received with a correspondingly broad reception. This applies to his first major project, the Parktheater in Grenchen, as well as to his paradigmatic residential, school and sacred buildings. Detached from traditional typologies, they testify to a comprehensive, holistic approach.