3/5 Takeover Tour (Guided tour through the exhibition with guests)
FULLY BOOKED!
6 PM
Takeover Tour through the current exhibition ‘Beton’ with Laurent Stalder, gta Archiv / ETH Zurich
As a private institution without a budget for acquisitions of its own, the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum has no financial or human resources devoted to collecting. It thus sought another way to bundle resources and competencies. In March 2017, it signed a cooperation agreement with these three university archives, the goal of which is the joint communication of Swiss architecture in the form of exhibitions, publications and events.
In 2021, this alliance with the gta Archives at ETH Zurich, the Archives de la construction moderne at EPF Lausanne and the Archivio del Moderno dell’Accademia di Architettura at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Mendrisio presents the exhibition ‘Beton’ its first joint project with drawings, plans and models that have never been seen together before. In this context, also a Takeover Tour with Laurent Stalder will take place, with emphasis and focus on contributions from the GTA Archives of ETH Zurich.
Laurent Stalder has been Professor of Architectural Theory at ETH Zurich’s gta Institute since 2006. His research and publications focus on the history and theory of architecture from the 19th to the 21st century where it intersects with the history of technology. His most important book publications include ‘Hermann Muthesius 1861–1927: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicher Entwurf’, ‘Schwellenatlas’, ‘Atelier Bow Wow: A Primer’, ‘Fritz Haller: Architekt und Forscher’, ‘Architecture/Machine’ and ‘Architectural Ethnography’.
Registration: event@sam-basel.org
Costs: CHF 12.- / red. CHF 8.-, guided tour free of charge
Please note that the usual hygiene and distance rules of the FOPH apply, and that attendance is only possible with a valid COVID certificate proving vaccination or recovery.
Photo: Pierre Zoelly, Aubrugg Combined Heat and Power Plant, Wallisellen, 1975–78. Cutaway bird’s-eye drawing, n.d., ink on paper. gta Archiv / ETH Zürich, Pierre Zoelly
