Book for Architects
Wednesday, 30 September 2015 to Friday, 4 December 2015
Location: ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL, gta exhibitions
Opening:
Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 6 pm
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL, E1
Talk with Arno Brandlhuber and Christian Kerez
moderated by Stephan Trüby
Architects write books, read books, love books and collect books. Books loom large for architects – books that endeavor to talk about architecture, books that are a source of inspiration, a forum for polemics, an expression of dreams, wishful thinking and so much more. This exhibition showcases a historical selection of special “books for architects” as well as commentary on books by contemporary architects, historians and theorists, who, in various forms, conceptually and concretely explore a great many aspects of books for architects. Selected items are spatially arranged within the exhibition, moreover, for a mise en scène of reading, writing and collecting books.
curated by Fredi Fischli, Andri Gerber and Niels Olsen
with contributions by:
ALICE EPFL, architecten de vylder vinck taillieu, baukuh, Arno Brandlhuber, Henri Chopin, Christ & Gantenbein, ConfronTables: Charles Polónyi – Justus Dahinden by the chair of Ákos Moravánszky, Dogma, Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten, Pascal Flammer, Andri Gerber, Sigfried Giedion, Girsberger/Haefeli Moser Steiger, Trix and Robert Haussmann, Karl Holmqvist, Carla Juaçaba, Christian Kerez, Ferdinand Kriwet, Andrew Leach, Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten, Stanislaus von Moos/Vaclav Pozarek, Rudolf Olgiati, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, OMA, Tom de Paor/Peter Maybury, Gianluigi Ricuperati/Italo Rota/Elisa Sighicelli, Sauter von Moos, Salottobuono, Hans Schmidt, Gottfried Semper, Dino Simonett, Peter Staub, Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Heimo Zobernig and others
Events with the exhibition:
Tadao Ando
Monday, 5 October 2015
6 pm: lecture (HIL E1/E4)
5 pm and after the book-signing: book-signing in the foyer of gta exhibitions
in collaboration with the chair of Christian Kerez
Book launch "Review No 3 Typology"
Tuesday, 27 October 2015, 12.30
by Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein
Conversation with Emanuel Christ, Irina Davidovici, Fredi Fischli, Andri Gerber and Niels Olsen
Talk with Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten & Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten
Wednesday, 28 October 2015, 12.00
Book launch "Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics"
with remarks by Christoph Girot and editors Emily Scott and Kirsten Swenson
Thursday, 29 October 2015, 5 pm
followed at 6 pm by
Don 18, a talk with Tue Greenfort and Andrew Yang
Oh, wie schön sind meine Bücher...
Vergangenheit und Zukunft des Architekturbuches
Saturday, 31 October 2015, 1 – 5 pm
Werner Oechslin Bibliothek, Einsiedeln (How to get there)
Concept and moderation by Andri Gerberr
Public guided tour by Fredi Fischli, Andri Gerber and Niels Olsen
Tuesday, 3 November 2015, 12.30
Public guided tour by Fredi Fischli, Andri Gerber and Niels Olsen
Tuesday, 24 November 2015, 12.30
Book launch
El Croquis N. 182
by Christian Kerez and Junya Ishigami
with an introduction by Arno Brandlhuber
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 12.30
Book launch
All About Space. Vol. 1: The Invention of Space
Conversation with the editors Dieter Dietz, Matthias Michel, Daniel Zamarbide
Thursday, 3 December 2015, 12.00
Finissage
TO DO-List
Performance by Karl Holmqvist
Friday, 4 December 2015, 6 pm
Download: Brochure
Photos: Stefan Altenburger
