Main entry:

Hartmann Schweizer, Rahel, author.

Title & Author:

Lisbeth Sachs : animate architecture / Rahel Hartmann Schweizer ; translated by Thomas Skelton-Robinson.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : gta Verlag, [2025]
©2025

Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 30 cm.

Series:

Documents on modern Swiss architecture

Notes:
Translated from German.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171) and index.
Between drawing board, building site and typewriter -- Being an architect: 'Not specialisation, instead an overview and bridge-building' - a biographical sketch -- The Kurtheater Baden: the long road to a playhouse -- A glass foyer 'Amongst the Trees' as the pièce de résistance: from competition to completion -- The theatre as a synthesis of the arts: poetry, passion, process, promenade architecturale -- Kurtheater Baden, 2020 photo essay -- Skins and shells, tongues and tents: genesis and decay - the unfinished and the ruin -- Intuition, experiment, coincidence and system: art and architecture as research -- Catalogue raisonné.

Summary:

Lisbeth Sachs (1914-2002) caused a sensation at the very beginning of her professional career: freshly graduated, she won the 1939 competition for the Kurtheater Baden. With the building, opened in 1952, she expressed her lucid architectural position and experienced what it meant to be one of the first independent Swiss female architects in a male-dominated profession. For Sachs, construction was a procedural act that extended from craftsmanship to the suitability of materials and finally to people's appropriation of spaces. She sought to achieve architecture that floated, emerging organically from the topography and following environmentally and socially compatible principles. Her interdisciplinary understanding of architecture as applied ecology makes her work and thinking more relevant now than ever. Rahel Hartmann Schweizer's book about this unconventional architect, researcher and critical writer is part of Switzerland's contribution to the 2025 Architecture Biennale in Venice involving the revival by Annexe of Lisbeth Sachs' temporary Saffa 1958 art gallery.

ISBN:

9783856764937 (hardback)
3856764933

Subject:

Sachs, Lisbeth.
Women architects Switzerland Biography.
Architecture, Swiss 20th century.
Architects Switzerland Biography.
Architectes Suisse Biographies.
Femmes architectes Suisse Biographies.
Architecture suisse 20e siècle.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Sachs, Lisbeth.
Skelton-Robinson, Thomas, translator.

Animate architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325183
Call No.: 325183
Copy: 1
Status: Available