Jacques-Xavier Aymon (b. 1944) grew up in Geneva, where he developed an early fascination with space and architectural representation. In 1963, he enrolled at the École des Arts Décoratifs (EAD), studying under Georges Brera, Henri Mozer, Charles Philippe, François Maurice, Gilbert Frey and Louis Martignoli. He graduated in 1968 with a diploma in Interior Architecture. On the recommendation of Jean-Marc Lamunière, who chaired his diploma jury, he joined the experimental architecture practice Frei & Hunziker, first as an intern and later as a member of the team under the guidance of Ugo Brunoni.

Throughout his career, Aymon’s professional practice and academic work evolved in parallel. After working as an independent associate, he established his own interior architecture studio, ESPACES INTÉRIEURS, while pursuing an extensive teaching career. From 1975 onwards, he taught at the EAD as a substitute lecturer and teaching assistant before being appointed Studio Master by the Department of Public Education in 1982.

In 1990, he took over the third-year design studio in the Interior Architecture programme at the Haute École d’Arts Appliqués (HEAA). Seven years later, Vincent Mangeat, Professor at EPFL, invited him to join the first-year teaching team, where he was responsible for a course exploring geometry, abstraction and architectural representation. Over the following years, Aymon also served as an expert assessor, collaborated with the Athenaeum in Lausanne, participated in juries and advisory committees, evaluated theses, and taught as a guest lecturer at several institutions.

Alongside his teaching, Aymon played an important role in securing University of Applied Sciences (HES) status for the Interior Architecture programme and contributed to several research projects, most notably Design and Museography (HEAD / ECAL). He retired from academia in 2010 as Professor and Studio Master at HEAD Genève. Today, he continues to work as an independent consultant and author.

Jacques-Xavier Aymon’s work is characterised by a sustained reflection on space, perception, representation, and the transmission of knowledge related to interior architecture. His professional practice spans from his early years in experimental architecture offices to the establishment of his own studio, ESPACES INTÉRIEURS, where he carried out renovations, interior fit-outs, and spatial interventions grounded in a careful analysis of place, constructive precision, and a strong sensitivity to materials.

His ideas also found expression through his contributions to museography and research. In collaboration with ECAL, he led the project Design and Museography, dedicated to two major figures of modern exhibition design: Carlo Scarpa and Franco Albini. The publication resulting from this research, released in 2009, highlights the importance he places on spatial mediation, the interpretation of historical contexts, and the narrative dimension of architecture.

His studio also realised a range of educational and cultural projects, including an exhibition on libraries designed by Alvar Aalto, presented at the Palais des Nations in Geneva as part of the United Nations initiative Dialogue among Civilizations. Together, these projects reflect a practice in which built space—whether interior, heritage-related, or museum-based—serves as a medium for reflection, interpretation, and the transmission of knowledge.

From 1990 to 2010, Aymon directed his own practice while continuing to engage in research, student supervision, monographic lectures, and expert consultancy. Today, he also dedicates himself to writing, including an ongoing essay on architectural heritage, and organises thematic study trips under the title One City, One Architect.

His extensive archive of documents, projects, writings, and research provides a detailed insight into a career devoted to understanding, teaching, and advancing the discipline of interior architecture—conceived as a cultural, analytical, and deeply committed practice.