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.[...]

Zita Cotti became an important exponent in the debate on high-quality living space in the greater Zurich area through her Katzenbach housing association estate in Zurich-Seebach (2007). This volume presents Cotti's two built housing estates in Zurich and seven projects of which some have been implem[...]

Miroslav Sik coined the term Analogue Architecture in the late 1980s. It stands for an architectural approach that is oriented towards the existing environment, its atmosphere and the construction tradition in a subtly radical way. It has made Miroslav Sik an unmistakable protagonist in Switzerland [...]

Boegli Kramp respond to the qualities of the location and the specific nature of the construction task. Since 2001, the home for the disabled in Mollie-Margot, which is entirely dedicated to rural building culture, and the La Broye intercantonal secondary school in Payerne, which is majestically ent[...]

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 1[...]

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 co[...]