A Matter of Art
A Matter of Art: Contemporary Architecture in Switzerland
Jacques Lucan (Editor) with Colette Raffaele, Guy Nicollier and Philippe Mivelaz, advised by Martin Steinmann
Birkhäuser, May 2001
Paperback | 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 inches | 208 pages | French/English | ISBN: 978-3764364458
Publisher Description:
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.dDAB Commentary: In my recent review of Forms of Practice, Irina Davidovici's scholarly analysis of Swiss architecture in the 1980s and 1990s, I mentioned that in those decades "Swiss architecture made a name for itself internationally." I learned about Mario Botta, Herzog & de Meuron, Diener & Diener, and Peter Zumthor in architecture school in the mid-1990s, and by the start of the next decade these and oth...
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