Born in 1972 in Biel, Switzerland, Rolf Jenni completed his degree in Architecture at the technical college between 1989 and 1994. He continued his studies in Architecture at the University of Applied Science in Biel from 1993 to 1997 and expanded his education from 2004 to 2006 with a postgraduate course in Architecture and Urbanism at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. He has taught in design studios as a teaching and research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and at the University of Applied Science FHNW in Basel, and has been employed at ETH Studio Basel since 2007 as a researcher and teaching assistant. He has lectured and been a guest critic at ETH Zurich, the technical universities in Delft, Munich and Hannover and at the Universities of Applied Science in Basel and Zurich. Apart from his teaching and academic activities, Rolf Jenni has been collaborating with various architecture firms, amongst them Wiel Arets Architects in the Netherlands and agps.architecture in Zurich. In 2007, he founded his own office for architecture and urbanism, Raumbureau, in Zurich together with Tom Weiss.