The book is not a typical book. It consists of plates that can be opened, one after the other. Each plate is connected to the overall book by the continuous text, to the architect's drive through the images of an iconographic autobiography, and to his works themselves through photos and rendering. As a book, it is primarily a piece of work in its own right, an image that evokes new images in the viewer. Since the end of the 1990s, Valerio Olgiati has been regarded as one of the most independent and exceptional exponents of Swiss architecture. The book compiles all his important buildings and projects since 1996 - as well as a complete catalogue of works and a bibliography. Text in German with an English summary.

Valerio Olgiati (German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Stalder, Laurent

Reichlin, Bruno

Carpo, Mario

Architecture

Quart Architektur

The book is not a typical book. It consists of plates that can be opened, one after the other. Each plate is connected to the overall book by the continuous text, to the architect's drive through the images of an iconographic autobiography, and to his works themselves through photos and rendering. As a book, it is primarily a piece of work in its own right, an image that evokes new images in the viewer.Since the end of the 1990s, Valerio Olgiati has been regarded as one of the most independent and exceptional exponents of Swiss architecture. The book compiles all his important buildings and projects since 1996 - as well as a complete catalogue of works and a bibliography.

Valerio Olgiati

Since 1989, the Winterthur architect Beat Rothen has continuously extended and independently developed his exciting work although he is often overlooked today. While his earlier works were mainly residential buildings and estates, his most recent projects include administrative buildings with an architectural language that reveals a heightened forcefulness and consistency. Text in English and German.

Beat Rothen: De Aedibus 40

The architectural use of fair faced concrete and the technology of concrete is analysed and explained in a clear, in-depth way using the examples of four buildings by the renowned Swiss architects Miller &amp; Maranta. A special focus lies in the specific implementation conditions and the architectural results. The Volta school building and the Schwarzpark residential building, both in Basel, are presented along with the new construction of the "Villa Garbald" seminar centre in Castasegna and the Spirgarten home for the elderly in Zürich-Altstetten.

Architectural Concrete in Detail: Four Buildings by Miller & Maranta

Kapfinger, Otto

Reisch, Daniel

Kirfel, Florian

Miller, Quintus

Maranta, Paola

von Aarburg, Jean-Luc

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

Davidovici, Irina

Somers, Dirk

Steinmann,Martin

The Visible Origin of Architecture: "I asked architects to send me important images that show the basis of their work. Images that are in their head when they think. Images that show the origin of their architecture. In this book we find 44 individual 'musées imaginaires'. The most unique architects living today each present up to 10 images to explain the autobiographical roots of their oeuvre. The images are explanations, metaphors, foundations, memories and intentions. They are poetic and philosophical avowals. They reveal a personal perspective on thoughts. They show the roots of architecture and expectations concerning projects. Conscious and unconscious. This book has the format of a reader. As little as possible is said. The images are small, legible and interpretable as icons. As individual collections, they present a personal view of an individual world, while as a whole they provide a universal view of the perceptible origin of contemporary architecture." Valerio Olgiati The images submitted to Olgiati are personal, confidential and poetic revelations of the deeper foundations on which the architects' projects are based. The collection acts as a kind of depth gauge of contemporary world architecture. The list comprises the 44 most unique architects living today: David Adjaye, Francisco Aires Mateus, Manuel Aires Mateus, Alejandro Aravena, Ben van Berkel, Mario Botta, Alberto Campo Baeza, Adam Caruso, Peter St John, David Chipperfield, Preston Scott Cohen, Hermann Czech, Roger Diener, Peter Eisenman, Sou Fujimoto, Antón Garcia-Abril, Go Hasegawa, Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Steven Holl, Anne Holtrop, Junya Ishigami, Arata Isozaki, Toyo Ito, Bijoy Jain (Studio Mumbai), Momoyo Kaijima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow), Christian Kerez, Hans Kollhoff, Winy Maas (MVRDV), Peter Märkli, Jürgen Mayer H., Richard Meier, Glenn Murcutt, Ryue Nishizawa, Valerio Olgiati, John Pawson, Cecilia Puga, Smiljan Radic, Richard Rogers, Kazuyo Sejima, Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates, Miroslav ik, Alvaro Siza Vieira, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Peter Wilson (Bolles + Wilson), Peter Zumthor.

The Images of Architects

Olgiati, Valerio

The Winterthur architect Peter Kunz is well known for his stringent residential buildings in development zones located between urbanity and nature. This book not only documents twelve of his buildings, but also creates an impressive dialogue between the view of the Winterthur photographer Claudia Luperto and a residential world that is enchanted by soft winter light. It is also an architect's congenial, thorough and reflective review of his buildings, which oscillate between reduction and a strong sense of materials and form. Text in English and German. 160 colour illustrations

Peter Kunz: Bauten (English and German Edition)

Seelig, Thomas

Adam, Hubertus

Marques, Daniele

Kunz, Peter

History & Criticism

The peaceful, stoic and classic appearance of buildings by the Bonn architect Uwe Schröder recalls the Italian rationalism of the 1960s to 1980s. He skilfully interweaves it with contemporary use requirements to achieve clear, fundamentally architectural expressions. Text in English and German.

Uwe Schröder: De aedibus international 11

Wirz, Heinz

A residential building with exceptional spatial qualities in the Basel Jura region made Jakob Steib renowned in 1995. The thematic focus of his designs lies in apartment buildings and their typology. Well conceived spatial constellations, coherent materials and careful placement within settlement structures characterize his buildings.Text in English and German.

Jakob Steib: De aedibus 60 (De Aedibus, 64)

An exceptionally active architectural scene has been developing in Biel for some time. Its protagonists include Jürg Bart and Stephan Buchhofer. Following numerous competition successes, the architects have produced an impressive volume of work in the last 18 years. Their buildings and conversions are developed in a very considered manner. Each follows one underlying idea that is implemented in a consistent, careful way. Text in English and German.

Bart Buchhofer: De aedibus 61 (De aedibus, 70) (English and German Edition)

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