David Chipperfield Architects Berlin and the Kunsthaus Z?ich (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783039420278)

This book elegantly traces the genesis of David Chipperfield's extension for the Kunsthaus Z?ich.

David Chipperfield's new building for the Kunsthaus Z?ich now stands in all its splendor on Zurich's Heimplatz, opposite the old museum building of 1910 designed by Karl Moser. Its opening to the public in October 2021 will make the Kunsthaus Z?ich Switzerland's largest art museum.

Following two previous volumes on Kunsthaus Z?ich's architectural history and the design used to turn it into an art museum for the twenty-first century, this book documents the genesis of Chipperfield's extension from proposal through political debates about the entire project to the completed structure. It features a foreword by Chipperfield and an essay by Christoph Felger, executive architect for the project at David Chipperfield Architects Berlin, that discusses the design concept, the promise made with it, and its fulfillment. A conversation between Felger, director of the City of Zurich's Building Surveyor's Office Wiebke Rler, Kunsthaus Z?ich's director Christoph Becker, and architecture critic Sabine von Fischer, as well as numerous illustrations and plans round out this new volume.

Author: Kunsthaus Z?ich
ISBN-10: 3039420275
ISBN-13: 9783039420278
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2021
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.60w x 0.40d