The Swiss architect Peter Märkli is best known for La Congiunta, the gallery in the canton of Ticino that houses the reliefs of the sculptor Hans Josephson. He has also designed many residential projects in Switzerland. His unconventional approach, combined with his understanding of materials and color, make him a unique figure in contemporary European architecture. Approximations focuses on Märkli's work from 1982 to the present. It traces the professional and political impact on Märkli's early work of Hans Josephson and the architect Rudolph Olgiati. It also shows how the elemental, almost "archaic" quality of Märkli's work is influenced by a wide variety of sources, including Greek antiquity, the Renaissance, the simple farmhouses of the Po Valley, African and Mexican art, and Matisse's paintings. The book contains an essay by Mohsen Mostafavi and an extensive conversation between Märkli and Marcel Meili.

Approximations: The Architecture of Peter Märkli

Arts & Photography

Meili, Marcel

Markli, Peter

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Mit Pr

Schweizer Stararchitekten entwerfen eine neue Landeskarte der urbanen Topografie. Geografische, historische, sprachliche, kulturelle, soziale, ökonomische, verkehrspolitische und architektonische Strukturen sind in ihrer vielfältigen Kombinatorik erfasst worden.

Die Schweiz – ein städtebauliches Portrait: Bd. 1: Einführung; Bd. 2: Grenzen, Gemeinden – eine kurze Geschichte des Territoriums; Bd. 3: Materialien (German Edition)

Reference

Herzog, Jacques

de Meuron, Pierre

Schmid, Christian

Diener, Roger

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Birkhauser

Top Swiss architects create a new urban topography for Switzerland.

Switzerland – an Urban Portrait: Vol. 1: Introduction; Vol. 2: Borders, Communes – a Brief History of the Territory; Vol. 3: Materials

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Birkhäuser Architecture

Top Swiss architects create a new urban topography for Switzerland.

La Suisse - portrait urbain: Vol. 1: Introduction - Vol. 2: Frontières, communes : brève histoire du territoire - Vol. 3: Matériaux (French Edition)

On the slope of a hill in northern Italy’s Po Basin stands Casa Girasole. Built in the early 1930s by the Italian architects Angelo Invernizzi and Ettore Fagiuoli, this villa exemplifies the Italian style Futurismo in architecture. But what makes Casa Girasole truly extraordinary is its ability to follow the sun across the sky, rotating using an electric motor and providing its occupants with a panoramic view of the surrounding landscape.The award-winning documentary film Il Girasole. A House Near Verona offers an inside look into Casa Girasole, guiding audiences across the grounds and through the various rooms of the villa, which has been entirely preserved in its original state. Filmmaker Christoph Schaub and architect Marcel Meili provide not just a history of this architectural feat but also a survey of the period in which it was conceived.The DVD is complemented by a booklet with introductory essays and illustrations and will appeal to anyone interested in twentieth-century architecture.

Il Girasole. A House Near Verona

Schaub, Christoph

Architecture

Scheidegger and Spiess

Santiago Calatrava: the Daring Flight

Nicolin, Pierluigi

Edizioni Electa

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