The buildings by Jonathan Sergison and Steven Bates are characterised by soft, but all the more harmonious tones. In them, their passion for the atmospheric qualities of buildings combines with other qualities of construction and sounding out technical conditions and possibilities. The London architects are members of the young generation of a specific architectural scene that has been dedicated to an integrative, coherent, non-formalist architecture since the mid-1990s. This monograph presents eight buildings from recent years using design studies, sketches, models, material comparisons and plans of the design stages and completed buildings, comparing them with image sequences of the actually constructed buildings. The volume is complemented by a detailed list of works with reference images and an extensive appendix.

Sergison Bates architects: Buildings

Arts & Photography

Davidovici, Irina

Somers, Dirk

Steinmann,Martin

Architecture

Quart Architektur

<p>During the 1980s and 1990s, German-Swiss architecture gained worldwide acclaim on account of its structural and aesthetic coherence. Its precision, rigor and sobriety were, however, only outer manifestations of a deeper ethical orientation, reacting against formal arbitrariness and postmodern relativism. Swiss architects resorted to the discipline of concepts and formal reductionism in order to recover a sense of stability, normality, and cultural continuity. In <i>Forms of Practice</i>, Irina Davidovici provides an in-depth analysis of their work during the last decades of the twentieth century, discussing its cultural and theoretical conditions as facets of one artistic and cultural phenomenon. Richly detailed case studies and conceptual frameworks are brought up to reveal, behind the seductive appearance of Swiss architecture, the implicit conflicts between shared values and individual expression, artistic integrity and economic interest.</p>

Forms of Practice: German-Swiss Architecture, 1980-2000

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