Over time, MAYO and his studio have collaborated closely with leading architects, engineers, and planners on both public and private com- missions. These long-term collaborations are rooted in mutual exchange, where artistic thinking and architectural logic inform one another throughout the design and realization process. Within these partnerships, art is not conceived as an afterthought or embellishment, but as an integral force that shapes spatial identity, atmosphere, and meaning.
MAYO moves within zones where art does not answer architecture, but complements it, gently and from within. Authorship recedes in favor of attentiveness: to space, to perception, to the subtle ways form is sensed rather than defned. What emerges is not a discipline, but a condi- tion — a way of inhabiting space as thought, as movement, as quiet intensity and lived experience.
Lives and works in Zurich and Ardez, Engadin
Born in Zurich in 1963
1981–1986 Foundation course and studies in Graphic Design at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich
1987 Internship (Stage) at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna (Prof. Maria Lassnig)
Lectureship
Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung (University of visual arts) Lucerne
Hochschule für Grafk und Buchkunst (Academy of visual arts) HGB Leipzig
University of Boston (London)
Fachhochschule Architektur Frankfurt
Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Accademia Architectura, Mendrisio
Since the passing of his mother, the Swiss conceptual and object artist Heidi Bucher (1926–1993), and his father, the sculptor and humanist Carl Bucher (1935–2015), MAYO, his brother Indigo, their family and the studio mayobucher.com have been deeply involved in the care and management of both artistic estates.
Since 2013, ongoing curatorial projects
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