Description

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A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss architectural archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel.
 
Concrete in Switzerland is a historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time: concrete. The book addresses a number of issues of global relevance from a particular vantage point: reinforced concrete construction in Switzerland. Through contributions by internationally renowned researchers, Concrete in Switzerland analyzes a series of moments in the Swiss history of reinforced concrete, from the initial phase of its introduction in the country to the most refined applications in architecture and engineering. Groundbreaking and thorough, Concrete in Switzerland explores the history and application of a contentious material.

About the Author

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Salvatore Aprea is an architect and architectural historian. He is a scientist and curator of the Archives de la construction moderne. He has published several essays, books, and periodicals about the history of concrete. 

Nicola Navone is the vice-director of the Archivio del Moderno at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, Switzerland. As a historian of architecture, his main interest is the study of Italian architectural culture in Russia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 

Laurent Stalder is a full professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (EPFZ). The focus of his research and publications is the history and theory of architecture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries where it intersects with the history of technology. His main publications include Hermann Muthesius 1861–1927: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicherEntwurf, Der Schwellenatlas, Fritz Haller: Architekt und Forscher, Architecture/Machine, and Architectural Ethnography.

Sarah Nichols is assistant professor of architecture at Rice University. Her scholarly work focuses on building materials, particularly concrete, looking at how materials are designed and the relation between conceptions of materials and their use in architecture. She is guest curator for the exhibition Beton at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum.