ARB (PHOTOS, ESSAYS, CATALOG)

For the first time, an informative multi-faceted picture of the Bern architectural office arb is sketched out in this book by architectural critics, photographers and the architects themselves. Kurt Aellen was founder of the office and directed it till 2011. Typical arb-buildings are presented from various perspectives: for example, the Merzenacker and Hintere Aumatt developments, the Freie Gymnasium Bern, the tower on Ulmitzberg, and the Brunnadern and Kalchacker houses. The systematically structured catalog of work documents over sixty buildings and projects from 1969 to the present. With contributions by Lore Ditzen, Peter Grueneisen, Thomas Keller, Benedikt Loderer, Peter Lüem, Dominique Uldry and others.

ISBN: 3-7643-6103-4