Title & Author:

Venturing permanence : the ETH House of Science in Bamiyan / edited by Ivica Brnić, Florian Graf, Christina Lenart and Wolfgang Rossbauer.

Publication:

Zurich, Switzerland : gta Verlag, [2012]

Description:

128 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color), plans (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ... Department of Architecture, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
Castles in the air and the risky venture of permanence / Andreas Tönnesmann and Mark Fontana -- Interview : planned uncertainty / Ivica Brnić, Florian Graf and Wolfgang Rossbauer in conversation with Christina Lenart -- The ETH House of Science : phases of its development / Ivica Brnić, Florian Graf and Wolfgang Rossbauer -- New attention for Bamiyan / Abdul Jalil Benish -- A 'castle in the air' becomes reality : a personal retrospect on the House of Science in Bamiyan and its prospects for the future / Olaf Kübler -- And Karzai wept : a country under influence / Gudrun Harrer -- Relief architecture : pragmatic utopias / Elke Krasny -- Maps -- Humanitarian military interventions : a political scientist's evaluation / Herfried Münkler -- Out of empire : architecture and common wealth / Philip Ursprung -- Kabul : an archaeology of modernization / Ernst Gruber and Michael Klein.

Summary:

The city of Bamiyan in Afghanistan is inextricably tied to the shocking destruction of its famous Buddha statues by the Taliban in 2001. But this war-torn region is not simply emblematic of the devastation of a city in crisis--Bamiyan is also the site of a university, a locus of hope and learning. In 2006 three European architects, Ivica Brnić, Florian Graf, and Wolfgang Rossbauer, created the House of Science of the ETH Zurich for Bamiyan University. Venturing Permanence looks at the building six years after its opening through text and images, while exploring larger issues of cultural transfer and the role of architecture in rebuilding areas of international conflict.

ISBN:

9783856762100 (hd. bd.)
3856762108 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

ETH House of Science (Bāmyān, Afghanistan)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.
College buildings Afghanistan Bāmyān Design and construction International cooperation.
Public architecture Afghanistan Bāmyān.
Architecture, Swiss Afghanistan Bāmyān.
Architecture, Swiss Afghanistan Bāmyān Designs and plans.
Architecture, Swiss
Buildings
Public architecture
Bāmyān (Afghanistan) Buildings, structures, etc.
Afghanistan History 2001-2021.
Afghānistān Histoire 2001-2021.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Bāmyān

Form/genre:

Architectural drawings
History

Added entries:

Brnić, Ivica, 1979- editor.
Graf, Florian, 1980- editor.
Lenart, Christina, 1984- editor.
Rossbauer, Wolfgang, 1978- editor.
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur.

ETH House of Science in Bamiyan

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317821
Call No.: 317821
Status: Available