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Explores the oeuvre of architect Philippe Meyer, focusing on buildings situated around Geneva and Montreaux. Case-study led, this book illustrates a range of projects, from educational buildings to residences and villas.
This monograph focuses on the creative works of an architectural firm led by Olivia de Oliveira from Sao Paolo, and the Swiss architects Serge Butikofer and Olivier Vernay.
Lukas Meyer and Ira Piattini have been operating from their architectural office in Lamone near Lugano since 1996. Text in English and German.
Features the work of architects Jeanne Delia Cassa and Sylvie Pfaehler. Text in English and German.
The two Biel architects have been developing their impressive oeuvre for 30 years. Examples of such tasks include precisely integrated additions to the Schnyder Areal in Biel and numerous housing developments as powerful figures inserted into the urban fabric. Text in English and German.
In 2003, the Sion-born architect Alain Wolff founded his architectural office in Lausanne. Since then, a number of remarkable buildings have been produced. Text in English and German.
The two Lausanne architects produced an exceptional school facility in Chermignon, Lower Valais. Like a Greek temple, it has the power to combine the landscape, topography, urban morphology and building type. Text in English and German.
Zurich architects Roger Weber and Boris Brunner have produced an impressive oeuvre, including residential developments, schools and public buildings, which are always well-considered, voluminous, spatially orientated solutions designed with a powerful architectural instinct. Text in English and German.
Laurent Lin, Alain Robbe and Rolf Seiler are the protagonists of the Geneva office founded in 1999. Since then, a dozen competition successes have resulted in several residential developments, a school building, an old people's home, commercial and administrative buildings, and individual homes.
Monograph studying the remarkable oeuvre of a professional pair of architects, from contrasting backgrounds. Graeme Mann is from Scotland, and Patricia Capua Mann is from Italy. The real visual flair exhibited by the featured buildings makes this book an inspiration for practising architects and students of architecture.
Part of the De Aedibus series from Quart Publishers.
Projects by Stefano Tibiletti and Catherine Glaeser-Tibiletti are clear architectural responses to the location and its urban morphology, translated into forms of typology and construction. Text in English and German.
Since 2000, the Zurich architects have won around 20 competitions, out of which they have developed housing and renovated school facilities with intelligence and an exceptional sense of architectural qualities. Text in English and German.
The Zurich architects became renowned in 2006 with their container tower for the FREITAG bag and fashion label in Zurich. It represents 'architecture without architects' while also being a nonchalant solution for a common architectural programme during an inhospitable residual zone. Text in German and English.
The new agricultural school in Salez, in the St. Gallen Rhine valley region, has a slender, airy and light appearance. It is an extremely intelligently conceived low-tech construction made of timber. Text in English and German.
This volume presents five school buildings and facilities with a high architectural quality, as well as several outstanding residential and administrative buildings. Text in English and German.
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