Architektur für Kinder: Zürichs Spielplätze
6 November 2014 to 10 December 2014
Location: ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL, gta exhibitions
Opening:
6 November 2014, 6 pm
Talk with Gabriela Burkhalter (urban planner, Basel), Prof. Peter Fischli (Städelschule Frankfurt, artist, Zurich), Elisabeth Gaus (Pädagogische Hochschule Zurich), Prof. Hubert Klumpner (ETH Zurich), Bruno Maurer (gta archives, ETH Zurich), Prof. Dr. Stanislaus von Moos (visiting professor architecture history, Yale School of Architecture, em. Professor University of Zurich), Janis Willuweit (Grün Stadt Zurich), moderiert von Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung (ETH Zurich)
The playground has always been a place that promotes and limits freedom. In the playground movement of the 1950s, Zurich promoted new and unconventional solutions, taking on a pioneering role. Outstanding examples of this period are the Robinson playgrounds, featuring community centers, and the emergence of new forms of Zurich landscape architecture with Ernst Baumann, Ernst Cramer and Willi Neukom. The exhibition “Architektur für Kinder: Zürichs Spielplätze” (“Architecture for Children: Zurich’s Playgrounds”) explores the history of Zurich’s playgrounds since 1950, and in an open experiment lets children show where and how they like to play the most today.
Curated by Gabriela Burkhalter, in collaboration with gta Archiv (ETH Zurich), Baugeschichtliches Archiv, Zurich and ASLA Archiv für Schweizer Landschaftsarchitektur, Rapperswil
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