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Quart Publishers Lilitt Bollinger: Anthologie
In 2013, Lilitt Bollinger founded her own office in Nuglar near Basel. Since then, the office has produced a number of refined conversions that are entirely developed out of the atmosphere of the building and location. The pronounced affinity to construction and spatial expression gives the buildings their unique atmosphere. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Giraudi Wettstein: De Aedibus 30
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Quart Publishers Stefan Wülser +
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.
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Quart Publishers SAAS
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.
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Quart Publishers Baumgartner Loewe
Since 2010, Marcel Baumgartner has worked in his Zurich office on projects with a wide range of tasks and scales, including prolific competition participation. In 2020, Claudia Loewe joined him, co-founding the company Baumgartner Loewe Architekten in 2022. Their design stance is characterised by committed engagement with current building tasks and respect for existing architectural structures. For example, in the case of the extension to Röhrliberg School in Cham, they assumed the historical grid, while carefully selecting materials and colours to ensure an impressive, harmonious synthesis of old and new elements. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Liebman Villavecchia – Barcelona: De aedibus international 28
Since 1987, Eileen Joy Liebman and Fernando Villavecchia Obregón have focused on developing housing and measures to existing buildings. Over the years, they have gradually developed an oeuvre with the special qualities of reserve and “silence”. Projects include the careful renovation of the Casa Coderch Milá in Cadaqués (2017) and the Casa in Sant Llorenç (2014), inherently engaging with the rural architecture. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Tom Munz Architekt
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.
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Quart Publishers LDW architectes
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.
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Quart Publishers Kister Scheithauer Gross – Köln/Leipzig/Berlin: De aedibus international 26
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.
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Quart Publishers ahaa: Anthologie
Following his studies at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and various internships, Andreas Heierle founded his Atelier für Architektur in Lucerne in 2012. Since then, he has produced a number of architectural gems, including a small, elegant residential building with three courtyards in Romania and a school in the community of Crissier, Canton of Vaud, which is naturally integrated into the landscape. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Andy Senn: De aedibus 89
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. The design is by Andy Senn, who has led his architectural office in St. Gallen since 1998 and has produced an extraordinary, homogeneous oeuvre in the last 20 years. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers a2o - Brussel/Hasselt: De aedibus international 19
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.
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Quart Publishers Architetti Tibiletti Associati: De aedibus 88
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. A number of remarkable residential and public buildings have been erected in this way since 2006. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Frei Rezakhanlou: De aedibus
In 2010, the two Lausanne architects Eric Frei and Kaveh Rezakhanlou 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. The architects have also designed further projects with great architectural qualities. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Graeme Mann & Patricia Capua Mann: De aedibus
An 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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Quart Publishers Menzi Burgler: Anthologies 34
The 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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Quart Publishers Philippe Meyer: De aedibus 71
Transparency and solid construction both complement and depend on each other in the works of Philippe Meyer. The volume presents a cross-section of his precisely defined projects, which have been executed since 2003. They include expansive villas in the region around Geneva, the new Physics Building of the University of Geneva, and a residential building for students in Montreux.
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Quart Publishers Esposito Javet: De Aedibus
Since 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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Quart Publishers Emiliano Lopez Monica Rivera Arquitectos: Rwohnte Zwischenraume
This 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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Quart Publishers De Smet Vermeulen: De Aedibus International
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.
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Quart Publishers Walter Angonese - Kaltern
The 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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Quart Publishers Fiechter Salzmann: Anthologie
The 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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Quart Publishers Alexandre Clerc: Anthologies 30
The 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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Quart Publishers Pierr-Alain Dupraz: De Aedibus
Buildings 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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Quart Publishers Titus Bernard: De aedibus International 10
The 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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Quart Publishers Localarchitecture: Anthologie 24
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Quart Publishers Rapin Saiz: Anthologie 27
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Quart Publishers Miroslav Sik: Old - New, De Audibus 2
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Quart Publishers Philipp Bruhwiler: De Aedibus 13
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Quart Publishers Frey Architectes: De aedibus 103
Founded by François Frey and Valentine Chamay Frey, the Geneva-based practice frey architectes takes a modern, minimalist approach. It focuses on the new construction and conversion of villas in the Geneva region. Completed in 2004, Villa F in Vésenaz is a good example of the practice’s rational style, harmonising the construction system and the architectural expression. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Mikou Studio – Paris: De aedibus international 29
The twin sisters Selma Mikou and Salwa Mikou founded their own Paris office in 2006 – after working for many years for Jean Nouvel and Renzo Piano. Each project primarily aims to liberate itself from preconceived forms in order to create original solutions that focus on the dimension of an emotional spatial experience. The architects have produced numerous prominent buildings in this way, including the Balsanéo Aquatics Center in Châteauroux (2021), which was developed as a dynamic figure that spans the boulevard like a bridge to overlook the unique landscape of the Indre region. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Florian Nagler Architekten – München: De aedibus international 24
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.
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Quart Publishers MPH: De aedibus 91
Olaf Hunger, Nicolas Monnerat and Franck Petitpierre are the protagonists of the Lausanne office MPH. The architects have produced a significant oeuvre since 1997, mainly consisting of large housing developments, individual homes and renovation projects on historical buildings that impress through their structural clarity, coherent material choices and pronounced tectonics. Text in English and French.
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Quart Publishers Menzingen Cantonal School KSM: Refurbishing Architectural Heritage. Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten
The former Bernarda teacher-training centre in Menzingen was built between 1955 and 1958 by the two renowned Zug architectural teams of Hanns A. Brütsch and Alois Stadler, and Leo Hafner and Alfons Wiederkehr. The school on a gentle slope in the midst of the attractive landscape between Lake Zug and Lake Zurich is an exceptional example of 1950s Swiss architecture. The facility impresses with its staging of the exposed location, the coherent arrangement of five highly individualised buildings around a circular centre, and the notable design of the open spaces by Ernst Cramer. Between 2015 and 2018, the facility was extended and refurbished by the architects Bünzli & Courvoisier, transforming it for its new use as a cantonal school. The architects were strongly guided by the urban-planning and architectural design principles of the existing structures, while framing and expanding them with great respect and an undogmatic approach to consciously blur the boundaries between old and new. The book documents the existing facility with original plans and the clear-contoured, black & white pictures by the renowned Lucerne photographer Peter Ammon. Furthermore, the volume extensively reflects upon and documents in detail the school’s exciting, exemplary renovation. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers DF_DC: Anthologie
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.
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Quart Publishers Beer Merz: Anthologie 39
Anja 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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Quart Publishers Giuliani Honger
Lorenzo 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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Quart Publishers De Smet Vermeulen: De Aedibus International (French)
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 Dutch and French.
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Quart Publishers Alexandre Clerc: Anthologies 31
Alexandre Clerc, the 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. The text is in French, with an English summary.
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Quart Publishers Jean-Paul Jaccaud: De Aedibus
Each 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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Quart Publishers huggenbergerfries: De Aedibus
In 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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Quart Publishers Savioz Fabrizzi: De Aedibus 56: German and French Text
The 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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Quart Publishers Clavienrossier: Anthologie 30: German Text
Each 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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Quart Publishers Savioz Fabrizzi: De aedibus 56
The 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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Quart Publishers Luca Selva Architekten: De Aedibus 45
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Quart Publishers One O One – Seoul: De aedibus international 30
Choi Wook is the founder and protagonist of the One O One office in Seoul, South Korea. Since 2000, he has been creating a number of architectural gems year after year that show clear affinities to Korean architectural traditions as well as to European architecture. Craftsmanship, precision in detail, material authenticity and impressive spatial creations are just some of the remarkable attributes of the 13 projects presented here. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Horisberger Wagen: De aedibus 95
Since a compilation of their work was published in the series Anthologie 2012 ISBN 9783037610565, Detlef Horisberger and Mario Wagen have achieved further competition successes and expanded their exciting oeuvre. The designs always critically and creatively engage with the building programme, the location and the legal construction regulations. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Christian Dupraz: De aedibus 93
Since 2002, Christian Dupraz has managed his own office in Geneva. Over the years, he has produced a dozen buildings, including abstract, sculptural residential architecture such as the “House for an Art Collector” in Geneva (2010) and the seemingly minimalist holiday home in Les Posses-sur-Bex (2015). Text in English, German and French.
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