This book is a documentation of the widely well-known biannual awarded price in architecture of the federal Austrian state of Styria (Steiermark). The publication - an example for excellent craftsmanship - consists of two hardback volumes that can be read side by side. The text-volume is kind of a travelogue that integrates the ten project descriptions of the nominated projects and those of the winners. The styrian architectural scene and superordinal topics of architecture are discussed nationally and internationally. This texts concern the "Grazer Schule", connections between Graz and Switzerland and problems of conceptual design. In this way, a pure documentation is exceeded and with an outer view a content with superior validity is transported. Therefore there are in several ways connections to "Dialogues in Time - New Graz Architecture" by Peter Blundell Jones. The second volume contains a photo-gallery of black and white pictures by Hertha Hurnaus, who has taken photographs of all the nominated projects.

Raum, verschraubt mit der Zeit / Space, Twisted with Time: Architekturjahrbuch Graz Steiermark 2010 / Architecture Yearbook Graz Styria 2010

Arts & Photography

Adam, Hubertus

Architecture

Birkhauser

Most of the high-quality buildings developed since 2006 by Meinrad Morger and Fortunat Dettli are skilful, accomplished declinations of tasks in a rough urban climate. For instance the extended Perron 1 building in Solothurn (2009) is a single gesture that gives the structure a calming influence in the midst of the busy railway activity.Text in English and German.

Morger + Dettli: De aedibus 48

Quart Architektur

The Winterthur architect Peter Kunz is well known for his stringent residential buildings in development zones located between urbanity and nature. This book not only documents twelve of his buildings, but also creates an impressive dialogue between the view of the Winterthur photographer Claudia Luperto and a residential world that is enchanted by soft winter light. It is also an architect's congenial, thorough and reflective review of his buildings, which oscillate between reduction and a strong sense of materials and form. Text in English and German. 160 colour illustrations

Peter Kunz: Bauten (English and German Edition)

Seelig, Thomas

Marques, Daniele

Kunz, Peter

History & Criticism

Swiss architect Theo Hotz has been raising large, industrial and institutional structures since 1949. Working predominantly within the Swiss landscape, he has been in the international spotlight since 1988, when the American institute of Architects presented him with the international R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award. Of late, he has received acclaim for his spectacular glass buildings, notably his 12,000-square-meter addition to the Basel Trade Fair complex--home of Art Basel--and also such structures as the Swiss Post Office and Telecom Building, the AMPA National Material Testing Institute in St. Gallen, and various industrial and urban development projects in Vienna and Stuttgart. Over the course of his long career. Hotz has helped to shape Swiss architecture; but his work with Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, and Renzo Piano are evidence of strong international links. This publication provides a long overdue base from which to discuss his continuous flow of work. Theo Hotz contains a complete record of the architect's projects from 1949 to the present, an exemplary analysis of his work by Hubertus Adam, and an essay by Philip Ursprung that uses Hotz's spectacular art collection to draw conclusions about his architectural oeuvre.

Theo Hotz. Architecture 1949-2002 (German and English Edition)

Reference

Hotz, Theo

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Lars Müller Publishers

Stadt, Land, Berg. Neue Architektur in der Schweiz

Graevenitz, Maya Birke von

Photography & Video

Niggli Verlag

Architecture Highlights

Paul, Jochen

Dumont Monte

Zurich-based architect couple Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer are known for creating spaces that inspire and allow for intense contemplation. In the spirit of the duo's previous work--the Kirchner Museum at Davos, the renovation of the Winterthur art museum, and the extension of the Winterthur's Oskar Reinhart collection--their new museum project at Appenzell also exhibits a powerful, idiosyncratic sense of aesthetics. The Liner Museum, dedicated to the Appenzell painters Carl August and Carl Walter Liner--father and son, respectively--presents itself as a sculptural design: the very antithesis of prescriptive postmodern museum architecture that threatens to draw attention away from the exhibits, Gigon and Guyer's edifice displays the imperatives of clear stereometrics and neutral spaces. Here, the architects have succeeded in integrating the new structure into its rural surroundings and vice versa. This book features the Liner Museum, completed in 1998, in a photographic sequence by the gifted architectural photographer Gaston Wicky.

Annette Gigon/Mike Guyer: Museum Liner Appenzell

Dering, Peter

Gigon, Annette

Guyer, Mike

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Using projects by Swiss architect Christian Kerez as examples, this volume presents plans, sketches, correspondence, reviews and film stills to demonstrate how architecture can be recontextualized, interpreted and presented.

Christian Kerez: Conflicts Politics Construction Privacy Obsession: Materials on the Work of Christian Kerez

Frei, Hans

Hatje Cantz

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