Twentyfive x Herzog & de Meuron distils six decades of practice into 25 landmark projects, pairing scholarly essays on perception and materiality with photographs by some of the most significant architectural image-makers working today.
About This Book
From the adaptive reuse of Tate Modern to the structural spectacle of the Elbphilharmonie, Herzog & de Meuron have reshaped the architectural imagination of the past forty years. This volume is not a monograph in the conventional sense — it is a curated argument. Historians Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg have selected 25 projects they consider central to the firm's development, then written two substantial essays that frame the work intellectually: von Moos through the lens of painting, sculpture, and photography; Rüegg through the architects' own ambivalent relationship with the built environment. The result is one of the most analytically grounded studies of Swiss architecture available, essential for anyone serious about contemporary architectural theory and practice.
Key Features
- 496 pages of project photography, technical drawings, plans, and bibliographic references
- Photography by Balthasar Burkhard, Hannah Villiger, Margherita Spiluttini, Iwan Baan, Thomas Ruff, and Wolfgang Tillmans
- Essays by Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg; previously unpublished photographs by Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog's postcard collection
- Featured projects include Tate Modern (London), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg), Ricola Storage Building (Laufen), and 1111 Lincoln Road parking structure (Miami)
- Published by Steidl, ISBN 9783969991381
What You'll Discover
- How Herzog & de Meuron's engagement with painting, sculpture, and photography has shaped their architectural method — explored through von Moos's essay on perceptual influence
- Rüegg's analysis of the firm's ambivalent view of the built world and how that tension manifests differently across individual projects
- Previously unpublished visual archives — photographs by Pierre de Meuron and Jacques Herzog's personal postcard collection — that illuminate the practice's informal research processes
- The breadth of a 600-building, 40-country body of work distilled through the discriminating selection of two of its most informed scholarly interpreters
About the Author
Stanislaus von Moos is an architectural historian whose writing examines the relationship between visual culture and architectural production. Arthur Rüegg is a scholar and architect whose work engages closely with Swiss modernism and contemporary practice. Together they have structured this volume as an intellectual portrait rather than a catalogue.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 496
- Dimensions: 24.77 x 26.67 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783969991381
- Publisher: Steidl
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, architectural historians, and design researchers with a serious interest in Herzog & de Meuron, Swiss architecture, or the intersection of visual art and architectural practice.