QUART VERLAG

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 ...

The Winterthur architect Peter Kunz is well known for his stringent residential buildings in development zones located between urbanity and nature. The book not only documents twelve of his buildings, ...

The wealth and originality of space, materials and forms have always remained the motto of the Basel team of architects led by Luca Selva. We see them in various residential ...

After the highly acclaimed Dutch architectural scene in the 1990s, a second generation of architects has formed, whose buildings less spectacular, but designed more sophisticated and attentive to the site ...

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 ...

The wealth and originality of space, materials and forms have always remained the motto of the Basel team of architects led by Luca Selva. We see them in various residential ...

This volume focuses on the language of materials in history and the present day. Within this framework, it analyses how alternative construction principles can be 'researched' and where decisive development ...

Clear, simple forms and structures are evident in the style of the Lugano architect couple Pia Durisch and Aldo Nolli. Their still relatively new work, such as the austere structure ...

A school centre, combined with an impressive theatre auditorium and a treble sports hall are situated on the crest of a gentle slope near Bulle to form a new urban ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Zurich architects Enzmann + Fischer have fulfilled a unique construction task with a high degree of architectural and spatial quality by transforming a former post office building, thereby also ...

The Geneva architectural couple Pierre Bonnet und Mireille Adam Bonnet have produced nothing but precise individual buildings in recent years. They react with analytical sensitivity to the atmosphere of the ...

The second volume of the Laboratorium series takes a stance in the widespread discussion on research and the creative process of archi-tecture. Examples are used to show how individual insight ...

The architectural couple Margrit Althammer and René Hochuli attracted attention in 1995 with their production building for the Corum watch factory in La-Chaux-de-Fonds. Their building managed to create a fitting ...

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 ...

The Museum der Bildenden Künste in Leipzig has a surprising ground plan and sectional view, rich in interior spaces and set within a strong building structure that is coherently integrated ...

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 ...

So far, work by the two young Zurich architects Richard Durrer und Patrik Linggi could be summarised as some buildings and many striking projects. The buildings and projects are based ...

Sandra Giraudi and Felix Wettstein, another architect couple from Lugano, became renowned with the construction of a residential building in Cadro (1997), the laboratory building on the university campus in ...