gta exhibitions: Book for Architects

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Opening Tuesday, 29 September 2015, 6 pm ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL, gta exhibitions

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, Arno Brandlhuber, Henri Chopin, Christ & Gantenbein, ConfronTables: Charles Polónyi – Justus Dahinden vom Lehrstuhl Ákos Moravánszky, Dogma, EMI Architekten, Andri Gerber, Sigfried Giedion, Girsberger/Haefeli Moser Steiger, Trix und Robert Haussmann, Karl Holmqvist, Carla Juaçaba, Christian Kerez, Ferdinand Kriwet, Andrew Leach, Lütjens Padmanabhan Architekten, Stanislaus von Moos/Vaclav Pozarek, Rudolf Olgiati, OMA, Tom de Paor, Gianluigi Ricuperati/Italo Rota/Elisa Sighicelli, Sauter von Moos, Hans Schmidt, Gottfried Semper, Dino Simonett, Peter Staub, Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Heimo Zobernig and others.

• Title

  Book for Architects

• Website

  http://www.ausstellungen.gta.arch.ethz.ch/events/book-for-architects-e/information

• Organizers

  gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich

• From

  September 29, 2015 10:00 AM

• Until

  December 04, 2015 06:00 PM

• Venue

  ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, building HIL, gta exhibitions

• Address

  Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 9, Zurich, Switzerland