Legislating architecture Schweiz
By: Arno Brandlhuber, Christopher Roth, Antonia Steger ; editors, Fredi Fischli, Niels Olsen
Contributors: Roth, Christopher; Steger, Antonia; Fischli, Fredi; Olsen, Niels; Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Edition Patrick Frey -- 214; Edition Patrick Frey (Series) -- no 214.
Publisher: Edition Patrick Frey
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9783906803142
Subjects: Building laws; Exhibitions; Architects; Legal status, laws
Description: Berlin-based architect Arno Brandlhuber explores the Swiss building code, the ?most important book of all for architects?, specifically the relationship between building regulations and architecture. How do certain laws determine architectural possibilities? How can architects, in turn, shape those laws? Accompanying an exhibition at the ETH Zürich, this book serves as a fragmentary reference book. It retraces the chronology of referendums held in Zürich on architectural issues, shedding light on controversial nationwide referendums as well. Different strategies of bringing influence to bear on the referendums emerge; recurrent conventionalized graphic techniques used on referendum posters, artistically expressed political statements and even protests in the real space of the city go to show there isn?t only a politics of architecture, but also an architecture of politics. 0Exhibition: ETH Zürich, Switzerland (03.03. - 08.04.2016).
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, March 3-April 8, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.

In English and German.