A Matter of Art: Contemporary Architecture in Switzerland

by Lucan, Jacques

• ISBN13: 9783764364458
• ISBN10: 3764364459
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Contemporary Swiss Architecture has gained considerable international reputation with stars such as Mario Botta, Herzog & de Meuron and Peter Zumthor being celebrated throughout the world. This book reviews the current architectural scene in Switzerland, analysing it from three contrasting perspectives. Examined are 18 individual buildings that are considered representative of the high quality of contemporary Swiss architecture. Subsequently, six chapters focus on specific features which are characteristic of this architecture. Concluding the volume are five essays by Joseph Abram, Jacques Lucan, Bruno Marchand, Stanislaus von Moos and Martin Steinmann, each providing illuminating analyses and setting the present-day situation in a historical context.

Table of Contents

Avant-propos / Foreword	6	(2)
Obsessions Conversation entre / between Jacques Lucan et / and Martin Steinmann	8	(20)
Herzog & de Meuron	28	(29)
Diener & Diener	34	(6)
Peter Zumthor	40	(4)
Architecture analogue / Analogous Architecture	44	(8)
Le Tessin vingt ans apres / Ticino Twenty Years On	52	(5)
Seize realisations / Sixteen Buildings	57	(69)
Andrea Bassi
Bearth & Deplazes
Marianne Burkhalter + Christian Sumi
Conradin Clavuot
Jurg Conzett
Devanthery & Lamuniere
Diener & Diener
Annette Gigon
Mike Guyer
Herzog & de Meuron
Peter Markli
Meili & Peter
Miller & Maranta
Morger, Degelo, Kerez
Valerio Olgiati
Livio Vacchini
Peter Zumthor
Logique de plans / The Logic of Plans	126	(36)
Matieres / Materials	134	(8)
Nouvelle simplicite / New Simplicity	142	(6)
Le bois malgre tout / Wood Still Works	148	(8)
Architecture - Nature	156	(6)
Castello Propositivo	162	(37)
Stanislaus von Moos
Perspective et paysage / Perspective and Landscape	178	(12)
Joseph Abram
Une rhetorique autre / Another Rhetoric	190	(9)
Bruno Marchand
Annexes / Appendix	199