Having worked together for ten years, the two Zurich architects Barbara Neff and Bettina Neumann can now look back on a compact oeuvre, which includes five larger public and private buildings. Each of the buildings is characterised by an innovative allocation of space in the floor plan and the vertical section. Text in English and German.

Neff Neumann: De Aedibus 31

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Quart Architektur

Adrian Streich made a name for himself with residential buildings and the renovation of a large housing estate in the 70s. The restoration became a showcase project. As a result, the Zurich architect not only succeeded in generating constructional - but also urban planning - and architectural added value.Text in English and German.

Adrian Streich: De aedibus 33

Joanelly, Tibor

Peggy Liechti, Andreas Graf and Lukas Zumsteg have been working in Brugg since 1992, developing an architectural oeuvre with individual buildings that have been conceived with great care and precision. They are all atmospheric buildings that have a great coherence with their surroundings, despite their highly contrasting building programmes. Text in English and German.

Liechti Graf Zumsteg

Tschanz, Martin

The clear and fundamental train of thought that forms the basis for every design by the London architects leads to projects that are characterized to an equal extent by the utilization and the location-specific, constructive requirements. A semi-detached house in London is thus transformed into a complex organism that is incorporated respectfully into the housing development. Text in English and German.

Jonathan Woolf: De aedibus international 4

Olgiati, Valerio

Davidovici, Irina

The book is not a typical book. It consists of plates that can be opened, one after the other. Each plate is connected to the overall book by the continuous text, to the architect's drive through the images of an iconographic autobiography, and to his works themselves through photos and rendering. As a book, it is primarily a piece of work in its own right, an image that evokes new images in the viewer. Since the end of the 1990s, Valerio Olgiati has been regarded as one of the most independent and exceptional exponents of Swiss architecture. The book compiles all his important buildings and projects since 1996 - as well as a complete catalogue of works and a bibliography. Text in German with an English summary.

Valerio Olgiati (German Edition)

Stalder, Laurent

Reichlin, Bruno

Carpo, Mario

The book is not a typical book. It consists of plates that can be opened, one after the other. Each plate is connected to the overall book by the continuous text, to the architect's drive through the images of an iconographic autobiography, and to his works themselves through photos and rendering. As a book, it is primarily a piece of work in its own right, an image that evokes new images in the viewer.Since the end of the 1990s, Valerio Olgiati has been regarded as one of the most independent and exceptional exponents of Swiss architecture. The book compiles all his important buildings and projects since 1996 - as well as a complete catalogue of works and a bibliography.

Valerio Olgiati

Within stringent structures, Charles Pictet develops an exciting interplay of free forms, be it in conversions, extensions or in a number of spacious villas in the Greater Geneva area. He has for years belonged to the lively scene of young western Swiss architects. Text in English and German.

Charles Pictet: De aedibus 47

Braghieri, Nicola

Since 1989, the Winterthur architect Beat Rothen has continuously extended and independently developed his exciting work although he is often overlooked today. While his earlier works were mainly residential buildings and estates, his most recent projects include administrative buildings with an architectural language that reveals a heightened forcefulness and consistency. Text in English and German.

Beat Rothen: De Aedibus 40

The architectural use of fair faced concrete and the technology of concrete is analysed and explained in a clear, in-depth way using the examples of four buildings by the renowned Swiss architects Miller &amp; Maranta. A special focus lies in the specific implementation conditions and the architectural results. The Volta school building and the Schwarzpark residential building, both in Basel, are presented along with the new construction of the "Villa Garbald" seminar centre in Castasegna and the Spirgarten home for the elderly in Zürich-Altstetten.

Architectural Concrete in Detail: Four Buildings by Miller & Maranta

Kapfinger, Otto

Reisch, Daniel

Kirfel, Florian

Miller, Quintus

Maranta, Paola

von Aarburg, Jean-Luc

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

Adam, Hubertus

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