Books by Heinz Wirz

Book SynopsisOriginally from Chicago, Ryan W. Kennihan has been working in Dublin since 2007 and has taught at various universities. His architecture is reserved, peaceful and elegant. Each building is a little gem, where every detail reflects the architecture. For instance the Vita Family Center in Roscommon assumes the volume and appearance of the surrounding traditional buildings, while varying the details in an astute and subtle way. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisFlorian 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.

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Book SynopsisThe school extension in Andeer stands confidently and memorably beside the existing 1950s building. The building is a typical example of the intensive work by the Zurich architects Peter Joos and Christoph Mathys. Their buildings draw from the architectural potential of the location and transform it in their buildings with an enhanced degree of dignity and poetry.

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Book SynopsisThe young Zurich architects Ralph Blattler and Gilles Dafflon meticulously and intensely pursue a wide range of architectural tasks, be they smaller, rigorously developed conversions, well-conceived residential buildings or larger projects following competition success, in which they implement the experience they have gathered among renowned international architects.

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Book SynopsisThe young architects Laurent Savioz and Claude Fabrizzi from Valais attracted international attention with their radical transformation of a stable building into a residential development and their intelligent covering of medieval ruins in St. Maurice. Since then they have produced a number of noteworthy and unusual buildings of high quality.

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Book SynopsisThe young architects Laurent Savioz and Claude Fabrizzi from Valais attracted international attention with their radical transformation of a stable building into a residential development and their intelligent covering of medieval ruins in St.Maurice. Since then they have produced a number of noteworthy and unusual buildings of high quality.

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Book SynopsisBuildings by the Geneva architect Pierre-Alain Dupraz always reveal experimental elements, little inventions that are refined to produce an aesthetic overall result. For instance a villa is developed out of a module of prefabricated garage boxes, or a creche has underground rooms aligned around a large interior courtyard.

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Book SynopsisBuildings by the London architect Stephen Taylor use their powerfully innovative nature to smoothly integrate themselves into the surroundings, thereby becoming a valuable part of the London environment. At the same time, the form, materials and details of the buildings are reduced to produce a meditative, consistent character.

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Book SynopsisThe buildings compiled in this volume by the Augsburg architects Titus Bernhard are committed to classical modernism. They are extremely sculptural and highly experimental in terms of their choice of materials. Based on those principles, an extensive, superior body of work has been developed since 1995.

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Book SynopsisEach design by the architects Valery Clavien and Nicola Rossier, who work in Geneva and the Wallis region, consistently or even radically implements a design concept. For instance above an untouched basement floor, a small rural building with a new upper level was created with diverse, ingenious references to the basement floor and the new residential use.

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Book SynopsisPeter Baumberger and Karin Stegmeier are young architects who have produced high-quality Zurich housing in recent years. In addition to their highly refined residential architecture, they have designed inspired buildings such as the extension to the Dietlikon village school or the extension to the primary school centre in Laufen. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisIn 2013, Hieronyme Lacroix and Simon Chessex produced a student housing development close to the Geneva railway lines that represents exemplary urban architecture, with subtle nuances and a convincing resonance of the location's dynamic atmosphere. Before and afterwards, they designed smaller residential developments and larger conversions of refined quality. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisThe young Fribourg architect and his team have already produced a notable number of high-quality buildings: small school buildings, for instance for the school in St-Cierges VD, which is placed with great topographic precision, the exciting ensemble of the vocational school in Domdidier FR and the cleverly conceived extension to the multifunctional hall in Sales FR. Text in German."

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Book SynopsisTwo architects, Jeanne Della Casa and Sylvie Pfaehler, together with their new partners Michael Perret and Lucile Fonta-Rak, are working on a remarkable oeuvre in Lausanne. In the midst of an urban garden and an ensemble of housing, three timber residential developments have their own poetic radiance. The architects' award-winning works include clear tectonically structured residential buildings in Lausanne and the Lavaux region. Text in English and German. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisEach building by this Geneva-based architectural team is based on a powerful idea that is often developed from the eminently urban location. The idea serves as the basis for sophisticated solutions for major residential developments, commercial and administrative buildings and houses that are often refined into architectural gems with a poetic appearance.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, the three Zurich architects Lukas Huggenberger, Adrian Berger and Erika Fries present their high-quality early buildings. Ever since, following a number of competition successes, they have produced several buildings with precise skill, such as the extension to the Cantonal School in Heerbrugg, which smoothly continues the characteristics of the existing buildings and surprises with rich interiors.

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Book SynopsisThe young Zurich architects Caroline Fiechter and Rene Salzmann have already enjoyed a number of competition successes, including a school building with a wonderful appearance in Ballwil LU, which was achieved using red-washed timber. Its expression skilfully shifts between appropriate nobility and a warm radiance that is compatible with the world of children.

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Book SynopsisIn the Upper Valais region, the Lucerne-based Roman Hutter has produced three stringently designed wooden buildings since 2010 that are constructed using a traditional log-building method. Other competition successes that are still in the planning phase evoke rich moods and lead to a precise architectural expression.

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Book SynopsisThe buildings by this South Tyrolean architect, Walter Angonese, share a uniquely sophisticated structure. This stems from their close relationship with pre-existing components of their location; they grow organically within these specific parameters. The new building interweaves with topography, perimeter walls, and neighbouring structures to create new and powerful landscapes.

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Book SynopsisFor 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.

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Book SynopsisThe meticulously, carefully and solidly developed work by the London architects Daniel Rosbottom and David Howarth has continuously grown since 2000. Recent important buildings include the concert hall in Bodø (Norway), which has an outstandingly elegant and festive character, and the housing for the elderly in Aarschot, Belgium, which is intelligently integrated into the small-town structure. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisThe architectural couple Olivier Galletti and Claude Matter in Lausanne have already produced an impressive oeuvre. Their buildings always react in an extremely sensitive way to the given location and the premises of their use. In this way, they have created diverse individuals in terms of form, figure, construction and materials in the last 25 years, always alternating between utilisation and the architectural idea.

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Book SynopsisThis volume shows the diverse ways in which Emiliano Lopez and Monica Rivera, a young architectural couple from Barcelona, have addressed the question of optimum space utilisation. It includes a series of photographs that the couple took while travelling, presented alongside their own remarkable constructions and treatises on important themes within the study of architecture. Scattered in between are visual case studies dedicated to seven residential buildings, which have been precisely designed to suit their specific spatial situations. The techniques Lopez and Rivera use are described in detail. This exciting monographic collection is complemented by four essays, written by renowned guest authors, which elucidate Lopez and Rivera's unique style.

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Book SynopsisSince 2003, the Lausanne architectural couple Alfonso Esposito and Anne-Catherine has been working persistently on a respectable oeuvre of public buildings and housing. With great respect for the relevant location and the functional requirements of the building task, they find fitting figures and inspired materials that ultimately lead to an appropriate, poetic expression.

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Book SynopsisThe Zurich architects Oliver Menzi and Philippe Burgler demonstrate their ability to balance function with their signature reserved style. They skilfully play these attributes off each other, creating attractive public buildings such as the school and sports hall in Matzendorf, and the parish hall in Wurenlos. Similarly, the recently completed new wing at the Felsberg school, Lucerne, is a small masterpiece that shows their mastery of interior space, exterior structure, and precision in detail. This small book showcases some of Menzi and Burgler's greatest accomplishments to date.

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Book SynopsisSince 2003, the Lenzburg-based team led by Andre 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.

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Book SynopsisLorenzo Giuliani and Christian Honger are innovators in their own right, but they are also passionate about encouraging younger architects to achieve their potential. This volume focuses on the results of their teaching at the Ecole polytechnique federale in Lausanne between 2013 and 2015. Its central theme is the creation of high-quality interior space - a quintessential but often-overlooked facet of architecture. Including texts written by Giuliani and Honger themselves, transcripts of lectures from renowned guest speakers, and designs created by their students, Giuliani Honger is a mixture of monograph and demonstration, showcasing the enthusiasm, charisma, and teaching ability of these two important Zurich architects.

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Book SynopsisAn architectural couple with contrasting roots, Graeme Mann from Scotland and Patricia Capua Mann from Italy founded their office in Lausanne in 1990. Since then they have produced a remarkable oeuvre. All of their buildings are developed with consideration and care: for instance, the large multipurpose sports and community hall in Villaz-St-Pierre, which is anchored into the topography, or the striking structure of a secondary school in Gland.

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Book SynopsisOlivia de Oliveira from Sao Paolo, Brazil and the two western Swiss architects Serge Butikofer and Olivier Vernay founded their office in 2005. Their most important, substantial projects include two carefully developed school facilities, impressive residential buildings in the Eco-Quarter in Lausanne and a planned major urban facility for the Cantonal Library in Fribourg.

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Book SynopsisAnja Beer and David Merz founded their own office in Basel in 2010. Their smaller buildings, a residential home and housing renovation projects pursue the noble aim of consideration, respect and integration. Their intelligently developed solutions are orientated towards the functions of their buildings and the given existing structures.

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Book SynopsisIn 2009, the Swiss-born Andres Schenker and Michael Salvi and the German Thomas Weber founded their joint office in Vienna. Since then they have won over ten competitions. Their exquisite buildings include the sophisticated extension to the primary school in Absam, Tyrol and the complex Sillblock residential development in Innsbruck. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisSimple, spacious buildings, ingenious material experiments in the building envelopes and clearly structured interior arrangements characterise the buildings by this Geneva team of architects led by Philippe Meier. They are volumes for a range of building tasks, such as the Oncology Centre and a Business School in Geneva, or the renovation and extension of a media library in Sion.

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Book SynopsisLaurent 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. The designs are always pointedly critical and creative engagements with the building programme, the location and building regulations. Text in English and German.

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Book SynopsisLaurent 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. The designs are always pointedly critical and creative engagements with the building programme, the location and building regulations. Text in German and French.

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