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Quart Publishers Aeby & Perneger: De Aedibus 27
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Quart Publishers Kollektiv Marudo
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.
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Quart Publishers Soppelsa
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.
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Quart Publishers Giorgis Rodriguez: De aedibus 101
Timothée Giorgis founded his office in Geneva in 2007 and was joined by Juan Rodriguez in 2015. Since then, a remarkable number of residential buildings and refurbishments have been completed, including a major facility with a municipal and school building in Satigny near Geneva. It is carefully embedded in the landscape with a calm gesture. The reserved developments reveal a refined, detailed architectural language. Text in Spanish and French.
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Quart Publishers Carlos Martinez: De aedibus 100
Carlos Martinez has been running his architectural office in Berneck (Switzerland) for over 30 years. He made a name for himself through his collaboration with Pipilotti Rist entitled “roter Teppich von St. Gallen” (“red carpet of St. Gallen”), a wonderful urban-planning intervention that brings together the formerly haphazard conglomerate of remnant spaces and transport functions to create a homogeneous, identity-strengthening unity. His great energy and inventive engagement with the urban-planning context and its existing structures have led to numerous architectural projects that integrate themselves as powerful figures in the urban context and landscape. 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 German.
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Quart Publishers Giorgis Rodriguez: De aedibus 101
Timothée Giorgis founded his office in Geneva in 2007 and was joined by Juan Rodriguez in 2015. Since then, a remarkable number of residential buildings and refurbishments have been completed, including a major facility with a municipal and school building in Satigny near Geneva. It is carefully embedded in the landscape with a calm gesture. The reserved developments reveal a refined, detailed architectural language. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Staehelin Meyer: Anthologie
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.
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Quart Publishers Central and University Library, Lucerne: Original Building and Heritage Renovation
The Lucerne architects Thomas Lussi and Remo Halter Casagrande competently solve the complex tasks involved in heritage renovation today: the ideal preservation of the substance, discovering and restoring often nuanced, detailed qualities in the original building, the careful static stabilisation of the structure and the gentle renewal of individual elements as a result of use in and around the building. The original building was erected in 1951 according to plans by Otto Dreyer - one of the most important Lucerne architects of the time. The library was widely regarded throughout Switzerland. The book documents the original 1951 building using historical plans and photographs, provides insight into the building-historical analysis before the renovation and uses plans and photo material to describe the strategy and measures by the architects in renovating the architecturally important historical building. Text in English and German. Features articles by Cony Grünenfelder, Siegfried Moeri, Ulrich Niederer, and Stanislaus von Moos.
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Quart Publishers Materialität/Matérialité/Materiality: Andrea Bassi, Roberto Carella
Architectural research by the two Geneva architects in their office Bassicarella focuses on a few fundamental themes: Materiality, presence, construction, pre-fabrication and the internal figure. In a sequence of volumes in the Bibliotheca series, the architects reflect on those themes using illustrative details, short texts and technical data on the materiality of their remarkable buildings in the Geneva region. Text in English, French, and German.
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Quart Publishers Bernardo Bader Architekten - Bregenz: De aedibus international 17
For 16 years, Bernardo Bader has been producing discerning designs in the Vorarlberg region developed out of an uncompromising respect for the existing buildings and structures there. This volume presents important milestones in his oeuvre, all of which are conceived with rigorous restraint and minimalist power. 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 German.
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Quart Publishers Weberbrunner: De aedibus
Since 1999, the Zurich architects Roger Weber and Boris Brunner have produced an impressive oeuvre based on numerous competition successes. Their residential developments, schools and public buildings are always well-considered, voluminous, spatially orientated solutions designed with a powerful architectural instinct. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers am-architektur
Since 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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Quart Publishers L-Architectes
Two 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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Quart Publishers Lacroix Chessex: De Aedibus
In 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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Quart Publishers Pierre-Alain Dupraz: De aedibus 59
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 Alle Diese Tage: Anna Maria Kupper
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Quart Publishers Joos and Mathys: De aedibus 57
The 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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Quart Publishers Vincent Mangeat: Logos and Faber
Vincent Mangeat became internationally renowned in1988 following the construction of his building for the Cantonal High School in Nyon. Influenced by his work experience in Paris, training under Jean Prouve and a spell as Assistant to Hans Brechbuhler and Pierre Foretay at the EPF Lausanne, Mangeat s work bridges the gap between two architectural eras, namely the Tessin Tendenza of the '70s and '90s architectural styles with their exponents in the German-speaking region of Switzerland. But his work has always remained independent and rooted in western Switzerland. From his first residential building in Evolene (1969) to his current projects, including a house for writers at the foot of the Jura mountains, his wealth of architectural achievements form an important a part of his life and work as his permanent, valuable teaching activity. Text in English, French and German. 400 colour illustrations
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Quart Publishers Dieter Jungling Und Andreas Hagmann: De Aedibus 5
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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 Korean.
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Quart Publishers Bachelard Wagner: De aedibus 97
In 2006, Anne Marie Wagner and Cédric Bachelard, with their Francophone and Western Swiss roots, founded their office in Basel. Since then, they have produced extremely high-quality buildings and residential developments. The new Mattenhof housing estate in Zurich-Schwamendingen is a particularly impressive example, its basic form consisting of an enormous meandering progression that creates elongated inner courtyards. Text in English, French and German.
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Quart Publishers Spillmann Echsle: De aedibus 90
The Zurich architects Annette Spillmann and Harald Echsle 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 in the midst of an inhospitable residual zone. The 2013 'House of Switzerland' in Sochi (Russia) is intelligently derived from the same approach. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Baumeisterhaus - House for a Builder: Kaferstein & Meister
A master builder was the client for this apartment building on the corner of Oberwiesenstrasse and Binzmühlestrasse in Zurich. That situation gives the architecture its character of simple, often accomplished elegance and a solidity of structures that used to be erected by building company workshops in the spirit of an 'architecture without architects'. Text in English and German. Article by Jonathan Sergison.
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Quart Publishers Lin Robbe Seiler
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. 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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Quart Publishers Roman Hutter: Anthologie 32
In 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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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 Blattler Dafflon: Anthologie 29: German Text
The 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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Quart Publishers Phalt: Anthologie 22
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Quart Publishers Stocker Lee: De aedibus 99
The Swiss Melanie Stocker and the South Korean Dong Joon Lee have been running their Studio d'architettura in Mendrisio since 2005. Over time they have created some remarkable, carefully developed buildings in Ticino and South Korea, such as the Ca'Ospiti apartment building in Rancate, whose structure appears like a reduced archetype that houses five cleverly-nested flats inside; or the equally stringent and minimalist Godung residential and commercial building near Seoul: in brick and exposed concrete, it also contains intelligently-nested rooms within itself. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Stephen Taylor: De aedibus International 9
Buildings 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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Quart Publishers Javier Müller
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.
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Quart Publishers Masswerk Architekten: De aedibus 102
Benedikt Rigling, René Bosshard and Matthias Baumann are the founders of Masswerk Architekten, which has been based in Lucerne since 2003 and in Zurich since 2008. In addition to residential buildings, a number of public buildings have been created over the years – in particular school buildings, retirement centres and municipal facilities – which are characterised by a broad architectural repertoire and meticulous design work. Two residential buildings in the middle of a city park in Lucerne appear sculptural in their reduced structures, with floor plans fitted intelligently and naturally into the building volumes. The Baufeld G complex on Europaallee in Zurich, a significant urban development, inscribes itself unobtrusively in the cityscape with its rhythmic façades. To be completed in 2021, the Burghalde secondary school centre in Baden will accommodate 1,000 pupils in a historic park setting with protected buildings. With an article by Karl R. Kegler. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Kistler Vogt: De aedibus 86
The two Biel architects Silvia Kistler and Rudolf Vogt have been developing their impressive oeuvre for 30 years. Their projects are only conceived after intensive and passionate investigation of the urban-planning context and existing structures. 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.
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Quart Publishers Zach + Zünd: De aedibus 87
Gundula Zach and Michel Zünd attracted initial attention in 2001 with their winning competition design for the prominent Sechseleutenplatz. 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.
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Quart Publishers L-Architectes: De aedibus 82
Two architects, Jeanne Della Casa and Sylvie Pfaehler, together with their new partners Michael Perret and Lucile FontaRak, 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 German and French.
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Quart Publishers Inches Geleta: Anthologie 42
Since 2012, the two Locarno architects Matteo Inches and Nastasja Geleta have been designing a number of exquisite buildings, each developed entirely out of the atmosphere of the location and the nearby surroundings. With an exceptional affinity to construction and spatial expression, the impressive structures are concisely integrated into the continuum of the context. Text in English and German
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Quart Publishers Präsenz Présence Presence: Andrea Bassi, Roberto Carella
In their office Bassi Carella Marello, the two Geneva architects focus on a few fundamental themes of architectural research: material, presence, construction, prefabrication and the interior figure. The architects reflect on those themes in a sequence of volumes within the Bibliotheca series. This second volume analyses the appearance and expression of their high-quality buildings in the Geneva region. Text in English, French, and German. Also available: Andrea Bassi, Roberto Carella: Materialitat, Materiality, Materialite ISBN 9783037611159
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Quart Publishers Lin Robbe Seiler
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. 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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Quart Publishers Felippi Wyssen
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 materialization that alternates between coarse qualities and elaborate surface treatment. Text in English and German.
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Quart Publishers Meyer Piattini: De aedibus 79
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.
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Quart Publishers Galletti Matter
The 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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Quart Publishers Horisberger Wagen: Anthologie 23
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Quart Publishers Hild und K: De aedibus international 2
Building upon - thinking on" is the motto of this volume, in which the Munich architects Andreas Hild and Dionys Ottl present their most recent buildings, renovations and extensions. The book also includes a number of well known stringent and concise buildings since 1992 to provide a comprehensive impression of their high quality work. Text in English and German. 115 colour and 14 b/w illustrations
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Quart Publishers Daniele Marques: De Aedibus 32
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Quart Publishers AllesWirdGut – Wien/München: De aedibus international 31
Based in Vienna and Munich, AllesWirdGut was founded in 1999 by Andreas Marth, Friedrich Passler, Herwig Spiegl and Christian Waldner. The name is the office’s motto: in addition to high-quality housing, which also offers considerable flexibility and adaptability, the internationally operative office focuses on added social value. For instance, this is evident in the case of the widely appreciated social project magdas Hotel, a meeting place in Vienna. The most renowned projects among the office’s oeuvre of over 70 buildings include the Hanhoopsfeld campus in Hamburg and the Bruckner Tower in Linz, which was completed in 2021. Text in English and German.
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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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