Concrete Constructs: The Limits of Rationalism in Swiss Architecture |
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| Authors: | Ákos Moravánszky |
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| Abstract: | Ákos Moravánszky explains why for him ‘the traces of Mediterranean Rationalism in the new Swiss-German architecture are like the imitation stitching on the moulded plastic dashboard of a new car’. It is an influence which, despite the undeniable impact of Aldo Rossi and the Ticino School at ETH Zurich in the 1970s, remains skin-deep, sharing little with the present in terms of ideology or the interpretation of the historic past. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | Mario Botta Accademia di architettura Tendenza Aldo Rossi the ETH in Zurich a rigorous method based on typological research Italian Rationalists historical continuity and the classical past ‘eternal present’ Sigfried Giedion and Peter Meyer Josep Lluis Sert and Fernand Léger ‘Nine Points on Monumentality’ Marxist theory Ernesto Rogers Ticino Partito Socialista Autonomo (PSA) Tita Carloni Flora Ruchat, Luigi Snozzi, Livio Vacchini, Fabio Reinhart and Bruno Reichlin Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Roger Diener Valerio Olgiati, Yellow House, Flims, Grisons, 1999 Franz Füeg, St Pius Church, Meggen, Lucerne, 1966 Bernard Hoesli and Paul Hofer Martin Steinnmann ‘Tendenzen: Neue Architektur in Tessin’ (Tendencies: New Architecture in Ticino) Archithese ‘Analoge Architektur’ Miroslav Sik L'architettura della città (The Architecture of the City) Città Analoga (Analogous City) Independent Group the Smithsons Architektur Forum in Zurich Stanislaus von Moos Max Bill's ‘artistic concretion’ formalism–realism bipolarity Werk Christian Kerez and Rudolf Fontana, St Nepomuk Chapel, Oberrealta, Grisons, 1995 Valerio Olgiati, School in Paspels, Grisons, 1998 Solothurn School Martin Steinmann ‘empty signs’ and ‘forceful forms’ Andrea Deplazes Scientific Autobiography Bearth & Deplazes, Blumenthal House, Maienfeld, Grisons, 2007 |
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