Title & Author:

Approximations : the architecture of Peter Märkli / edited by Mohsen Mostafavi ; [with essays by Erich Brändle and others].

Edition:

1st MIT Press ed.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002.

Description:

184 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Peter Markli's Approximations / Mohsen Mostafavi -- Sketches / Peter Markli -- Conversation / Peter Markli and Marcel Meil -- The Architect and the Sculptor / Erich Brandle -- The Projects -- Two single-family houses 1982 Trubbach/Azmoos -- Single-family house 1983 Sargans -- Apartment building 1986 Sargans -- Single-family house 1987 Wintherthur/Seen -- Apartment building 1988 Trubbach -- La Congiunta 1992 Giornico -- Apartment conversion 1992 Walenstadtberg -- Single-family house 1995 Grabs -- Apartment building 1995 Brig -- Single-family house 1997 Erlenbach -- Single-family house 1999 Hunenberg -- Single-family house 2000 Azmoos -- Housing 2001 Zug -- School 2000 Oerlikon/Zurich -- Acknowledgements.

Summary:

"Contemporary architecture in much of Europe can be said to reflect the commercial exigencies of our times. Globalization, market forces and the standardized products of the building industry increasingly shape the environments that surround us. The work of the Swiss architect Peter Markli in many respects resists all that. It stands apart - constructs a temporal pause. Greek antiquity, the Romanesque and the farmhouses of the Po Delta are all because of their elementary character, sources of inspiration and, like them, Markli's architecture approximates an ideality that it never seeks to achieve. Peter Markli has an exceptional presence in an architectural culture that has produced some of the world's most unconventional buildings of the last decade. In Switzerland he is an architect's architect: this book is the first to document and analyse his work for an international audience."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262134004 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262134002 (hc. ; alk. paper)
190290205X
9781902902050

Subject:

Märkli, Peter, 1953- Themes, motives.
Märkli, Peter, 1953-
Märkli, Peter, 1953- Thèmes, motifs.
Märkli, Peter.
Architecture Switzerland History 20th century.
Architecture Switzerland 20th century.
Architecture Suisse 20e siècle.
Architecture Suisse Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Themes, motives.
Einfamilienhaus
Wohnungsbau
Switzerland.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Mostafavi, Mohsen.
Brändle, Erich, 1943-

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 222652
Call No.: NA44.M346.2 A6 2002
Status: Available