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Paperback. Etat : New. Since 2009, the two Basel architects Fabio Felippi and Thomas Wyssen have completed several fine buildings and conversions. They are precise structures that have been developed with extreme care out of themes such as structural presentation, conscious tectonics, typological clarity and a meticulous materialisation that alternates between coarse qualities and elaborate surface treatment. Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Tom Munz established his St. Gallen office in 2013. Since then, he has produced a number of extremely high-quality buildings that are always developed with a special interest in structural and tectonic expression. For instance Wohnhaus Holzenstein in Romanshorn is a design inspired by Modernism, thriving on the interaction between reserved, beige-stained concrete wall surfaces and wooden window elements to achieve an extremely poetic radiance.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Dedicated to both the function and the respective location, buildings by the Basel-based architect Lukas Raeber are characterised by a comprehensive engagement with the materials they use. While they firstly define the visual aesthetics and atmosphere of the conversions and new buildings, their often raw, direct application - thereby assuming the character of contemporary ornamentation - gives the buildings their specific identity. Among other projects, the texts and images in this volume present the recently completed Bota School in Dürnten and an apartment building designed for circular economics.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Founded in 2010 in Lausanne, the practice of Valentin Kunik and Guillaume de Morsier is shaped by its context-related projects, which are often implemented in experimental collaboration with engineers, photographers, philosophers and scenographers. The resulting spaces interact with their environment. For example, the Le Pont residential building is completely made of wood and based on an innovative construction system.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. In 2006, Laurent de Wurstemberger founded the Atelier ar-ter in Carouge with two partners, and in 2011, along with the material scientist Rodrigo Fernandez, the company Terrabloc, which turns excavated material from construction sites into compacted clay blocks. In 2018, he opened his architectural practice in Geneva and has since completed a number of smaller, more sophisticated projects, including the renovation of a farm in Choully (GE).Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. soppelsa Architekten focuses on the relationship between spaces - their qualities, materialisation, proportions and light guidance - and the project programme. Already in the early years after founding their office in 2012, the brothers Mario and Nino Soppelsa managed to apply that approach in a number of competition successes. In 2015, the semi-detached house in Esslingen was their first constructed project. However, their work is not limited to housing and also includes successful projects on all scales: their Hagmannareal Winterthur-Seen residential estate has won several awards, while their newly constructed Oberrüti double sports hall was included in the list of Best Architects 2023. Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. In 2016, Dario Franchini and Diego Calderon founded two offices, one in Lugano and one in London. Since then, they have completed a number of small conversions and buildings with an experimental character. For the Palazzo del Cinema in Locarno, they carried out a relatively large conversion project including heightening measures. Their interventions are both precise and clinical.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Jonas Staehelin and Stephan Meyer are among a promising young generation of architects in Basel. Their conversions and housing have their own hallmark, an outstanding sense of exciting interior spaces and a high degree of precision in formulating details. Their designs are characterised by particular elegance and dignity.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Since 2003, the Lenzburg-based team led by André Meier has been continuously working on intelligently designed housing and commercial buildings in Malters and supplementary buildings within the historical prison facility in Lenzburg. These buildings have very special requirements. Any architectural firm that wants to tackle them needs experience and talent. Am-architektur, celebrated for the timeless, innovative and suitable solutions they provide to practical problems, is more than worthy of the job.Text in German with English translation sheet.…

Paperback. Etat : New. The publication Two Lakes is the result of a comparative study of two cultural regions - Lake Lucerne in Switzerland and Lake Biwa in Japan. Based on the results of a five-year cooperation entitled The Culture of Water (2018-2023) between the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture and the Kyoto Institute of Technology, it engages with the architecture of the future. Addressing the core themes of danger, beauty, commons and eternity - and their according relationships to water - it develops hypotheses on both regions with respect to the interdependence between people and the architecture they produce. The book is rounded off by in-depth articles, two photographic essays and archive documents.…

Paperback. Etat : New. The Spanish architect Javier Müller has managed his office in Geneva since 2017. His striving for radical reduction is manifested in timeless architecture that fully exploits its social potential. Subtle measures and the economic application of means creates uncontrived architecture in which the form entirely serves the function and its users' quality of life. One example of such abstraction through rationalisation is the conversion of Duplex B in Bernex. Liberated from all unnecessary elements, this timeless architecture is exclusively defined by geometry, light and spatial proportions. Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. After studying medicine, Guillaume Yersin earned a Master's degree in architecture at ETH Zurich. In 2012, he founded his own office, SAAS, in Geneva and has since realised several smaller, exquisite buildings that bear witness to an exceptional sense of construction: for example, an observation platform over the Rhone in Bernex, which - constructed in wood - pointedly expresses architectural themes such as supporting, bearing and joining.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. For Zurich architect Stefan Wülser, architecture is not reduced to the craft of designing and implementing the design, but also involves thinking about its socio-cultural significance in contemporary society. With the house in Bassersdorf, for example, he developed a programmatic building that rises above an existing supporting structure in a direct, bricollage-like construction that is gestural and expressive. With an article by Tibor Joanelly.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. The spectrum of the young Baden-based office Kollektiv Marudo ranges from conversion and renovation projects to large housing estates. Its founders Alexander Athanas, Ole Bühlmann and Rafael Zulauf strive to achieve sustainable architecture through the integral observation of each building task, while its innovative character never contradicts tried and trusted approaches. Instead, their architecture unfolds between the coordinates of flexibility, local and use-related specifics, and innovation, representing consistent further developments of existing qualities. One such example is the new Brühl school facility in Solothurn, which was completed in 2022: the collective was founded in 2018 after winning the project competition. With an article by Bertram Ernst.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Apartment floor plans have a decisive influence on our lives. In the last 30 years, Swiss housing architecture has successively introduced the new ideal of floor plans with open and flexible uses. The aim is to offer spatial qualities to residents who are not yet clearly defined, thereby fulfilling the changing requirements of a diverse society. This publication presents five Swiss architects providing insight on their "good plans" with short texts and images: Elli Mosayebi (EMI Architekten); Jeannette Kuo (Karamuk Kuo Architects); Maria Conen (Conen Sigl Architekt:innen); Lütjens Padmanabhan (Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten); Philipp Esch (Esch ­Sintzel Architekten).…

Paperback. Etat : New. Florian Nagler's work is a veritable "recherche patiente", as his buildings have an experimental character. For instance the "research buildings" in Bad Aibling are exercises on what building with wood, plastered brick and concrete can each mean. The Wohnen am Dantebad housing development reinterprets the traditional pergola.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Johannes Kister, Reinhard Scheithauer (until 2020) and Susanne Gross have been running their offices in Cologne since 1992 and Leipzig since 2007, as well as recently opening a Berlin branch. The three protagonists have produced remarkable, inspiring buildings, including the major, sculptural facility of the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven (2005), which impresses with its solid, haptic materiality.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Jo Berben, Ingrid Mees and Luc Vanmuyssen are the founders of the Belgian architectural team a2o, with offices in Brussels and Hasselt. Their buildings are powerfully and inventively integrated into the mostly urban environment. Their forms and details are reduced, creating a meditative atmosphere. De aedibus international is a series on contemporary, highly qualified European architects and architecture; an archive of carefully selected buildings and projects. Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Founded in Stuttgart in 2005, the practice led by Liza Heilmeyer, Stephan Birk and Martin Frenzel comprises a team of 50 people and stands for context-related, clear architecture that focuses on construction and materials. A special emphasis is placed on a more effective circular building economy by designing and constructing with wood. Examples include the sculptural Jübergturm (2010) in Hemer and the multi-­award-winning Kita im Park (2020) in East Stuttgart.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Since 1998, Regina Schineis has been designing buildings with a powerful expression that impress through their honest materials and atmospheric density. For instance the Werk + Denklabor in Friedberg (2008), with its raw Corten steel, bronzed glass, raw-sawn wood and polished concrete, is an intense, yet agreeable workplace. The music rehearsal hall in Thannhausen (2002) uses copper, glass and kinked wood to create a tonal and spatial work of art.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Since 2002, the Zurich-based architectural practice led by Samuel Gäumann, Eva Lüdi and Martin von der Ropp has designed public buildings with a clear architectural expression, while maintaining a strong connection to the location. For instance the Blumenfeld housing for the aged in Altstätten (2018) reacts sensitively to the varying scales of the surroundings. The wooden structure of the Oberfeld Sports Hall (2019) in Langnau enters into a powerful dialogue with the existing buildings through its ­finely-structured façade, thereby integrating it in a respectful way.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Based in Bern and Zurich, the practice GWJ Architektur consists of 50 people from ten different countries. It aims to create sustainably attractive locations for individuals and society as a whole, constructing socially, economically and climate-compatible projects throughout Switzerland. For instance, the administration buildings in Ittigen are a modern reinterpretation of the renewable building material of wood. The Huebergass housing estate was commended by the UIA in the category "Sustainable Future".Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Lukas Meyer and Ira Piattini have been operating from their architectural office in Lamone near Lugano since 1996. By now, they have produced an exciting, mature oeuvre that also represents a further development of the Ticino 'Tendenza'. Their great sophistication and the constant integration of poetic aspects have contributed to buildings such as the headquarters of Credit Suisse in Lamone, an administrative and a residential building in Lugano, an administrative building in Monte Carasso and the so-called cinque case in Barbengo.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Powerful, memorable architecture in response to diverse conditions and briefs, conceived and developed by the Geneva architectural couple Kristina Sylla Widmann and Marc Widmann: 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 French.…

Paperback. Etat : New. For the first time in this series, Quart presents architects from Belgium, where a consistently high standard of building culture was produced in the 1990s. Henk De Smet and Paul Vermeulen are important representatives of that movement. To this day, they have produced an impressive, high-quality oeuvre. Their works include townhouses, residential and office buildings and a wide range of public buildings. Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. The diverse portfolio of the practice led by Diego Comamala and Toufiq Ismail-Meyer, which was founded in 2013 and is based in Delémont and Biel, ranges from private to public buildings. Their architecture exists in the field of tension between abstraction and construction. For instance the sports hall in Vernayaz (2019) stages light as a spatially formative element, while the new school building in Thun (2025) sounds out the spatial potential of appropriately designed wooden constructions.Text in English and German. …

Paperback. Etat : New. In 2006, Laurent de Wurstemberger founded the Atelier ar-ter in Carouge with two partners, and in 2011, along with the material scientist Rodrigo Fernandez, the company Terrabloc, which turns excavated material from construction sites into compacted clay blocks. In 2018, he opened his architectural practice in Geneva and has since completed a number of smaller, more sophisticated projects, including the renovation of a farm in Choully (GE).Text in English and French.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Nomos is an association of architects based in Geneva, Lisbon and Madrid. They collaborate on projects of all scales, from furniture to master plans, with a special focus on the cultural context and the environment. Primarily using drawing to shape their ideas, they explore new ways of creating community through buildings that seek to transform constraints into opportunities. They approach each project with enthusiasm, care and curiosity, always striving for sustainable beauty.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. In search of a cultural identity, the Dresden-based architect Peter Zirkel has produced materially aware buildings dedicated to a poetic realism since 1995. For example the church in Canitz (2022) is built upon the ruins of its 13th-century predecessor using a sophisticated wooden structure. The Museum Lützen 1632 (2024) exhibits a mass grave that was excavated in 2011, representing a silent place of remembrance, while also fulfilling the demands of a modern place of knowledge and cultural education.Text in English and German.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Founded in 1999 by Damien Chevalley, Patrick Longchamp and Gilbert Russbach, CLR architects have constructed a wide range of schools, administrative buildings and housing. Always in search of new typological solutions, the Geneva-based practice is characterised by regular competition participation and the reinterpretation of historical models, as exemplified by the Ecole du Petit-Lancy - a user-orientated extension to existing structures that enhances its urban environment.Text in English and German.…