This dissertation originates from an investigation about the arising of the modern, German building expertise involving the use of concrete, which develops during the first three quarter of the 19th century against the backdrop of a general modernisation p ...
The interest of German building masters towards hydraulic binders grows at the third decade of the 19th century. This acute interest is stimulated by the import of «Roman Cement» from England and by the acquisition of the knowledge related to it. The disse ...
Toute lecture ou analyse de la villa Eupalinos ne peut pas ignorer la relation exceptionnelle entre ces deux éléments d’une composition unique. Depuis sa position, et grâce à sa forte symétrie et à son caractère classique, la villa commande la géométrie d’ ...
The essay investigates the intellectual production developed by Italian refugees hosted in the military internment camp opened in Lausanne in January 1944 and active until the spring of 1945, when the refuges returned to Italy. In the complex and controver ...
A groundbreaking work resulting from the collaboration between the three major Swiss Architectural Archives and the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. A historical assessment of the most controversial building material of our time, concrete, made by addre ...
Architecte et théoricien, Alberto Sartoris réfléchit dès sa jeunesse et sans relâche aux questions fondamentales de l’art et de l’architecture moderne du XXe siècle. Théorie et pratique caractérisent son travail. La première le conduit à la rédaction de no ...
This contribution gives an account of how concrete construction developed in French-speaking Switzerland since the end of the nineteenth century. The narrative is based on original sources from the Archives de la construction moderne (Acm) and on data and ...