AMAG PRESENTATION AT HOCHPARTERR BUCHER

LAST DECEMBER 8TH, HOCHPARTERR BUCHER HOSTED AMAG PRESENTATION OF THE NEW LONG BOOK SERIES FROM BRANDENBERGER KLOTER ARCHITECTS AND AMAG 29 FROM BOLTSHAUSER ARCHITEKEN, LILITT BOLINGER and RAPHAEL ZUBER.

BRANDENBERGER KLOTER LONG BOOK SERIES, aim to invite readers to engage with the relevance and function of public buildings. It questions existing structures and identifies requirements, in order to find answers for the contemporary design of public buildings. The two Basel-based architects, regard the needs of future users to be a key aspect of conceiving new buildings, forming the basis of their designs. The resulting spaces have a high quality, where people feel comfortable and can develop. Interviews with the podcaster and editor Gülsha Adilji, the documentary filmmaker Anna Thommen, the organizational developer Petra Slembek, the urban psychologist Alice Hollenstein and the author Zoë Jenny. Visual contributions from the basel-based photographer Basile Bornand.

AMAG 29 features a special work selection from BOLTSHAUSER ARCHITEKTEN, LILITT BOLLINGER STUDIO and RAPHAEL ZUBER. 3 main different formal approaches, with a common awareness about integration, affinity to construction and spatial reasons, which particular expressions that allows each building to achieve unique atmospheres. Essays from Bruther, João Rapagão, José Manuel Pedreirinho, and Oliver Brandenberger.

AMAG 29 is the 29th title from AMAG MAGAZINE COLLECTION, and BRANDENBERGER KLOTER LONG BOOK SERIES includes LONG BOOK 09, LONG BOOK 10, LONG BOOK 11, LONG BOOK 12 ang LONG BOOK 13, part of the LONG BOOKS COLLECTION.

Hochparterre Bücher, Buchhandlung für Architektur Schöneggstrasse 27, CH – 8004 Zürich