27.09. - 09.11.2025

SAY Swiss Architecture Yearbook

26.9.2025:
5.30 PM Book Launch with panel discussion: Regula Lüscher, Corinna Menn, Roland Züger & Andreas Ruby 
7 PM Opening

The Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS (Swiss Architecture Foundation) presents the second edition of the Swiss Architecture Yearbook (available from September 26)!
An independent selection committee chose 30 projects and four special mentions from a pool of 158 nominations. The accompanying exhibition at the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel showcases Baukultur from all regions of Switzerland. The show is an invitation to reflect on central questions in contemporary architecture: Which topics are relevant today? Which projects demonstrate exemplary solutions? And what might the future hold for building in Switzerland?
Exhibition Curators: Andreas Ruby and Yuma Shinohara

SAY 2025/26
The project is commissioned by the Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS (Swiss Architecture Foundation).

SAY 2025/26 – the yearbook published with Park Books 
Issued by: S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (Andreas Ruby) and
werk, bauen+ wohnen (Roland Züger) on behalf of Stiftung Architektur Schweiz 
Publisher: Park Books
Editors: Fabian Ruppanner, Korinna Zinovia Weber
Design: Claudiabasel
Multilingual edition (German, Italian, English, French), 280 pages, cardboard-bound, Numerous illustrations, ISBN 978-3-03860-456-3, Price: 49 CHF / 48 EUR

SAY 2025/26 – Artistic Direction 
Andreas Ruby, Director SAM Swiss Architecture Muse
Roland Züger, Editor-in-chief werk, bauen+wohnen

Project support and the institutions involved
Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS
SAM Swiss Architecture Museum
FSA Federation of Swiss Architects
werk, bauen + wohnen

Exhibition flyer: here


THE EXHIBITION AT S AM ‘SAY SWISS ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK 2025/26’ IS SUPPORTED BY:

S AM Exhibition Supporter:
Designbutik

SAM Supporters:
Kanton Basel-Stadt
Bundesamt für Kultur BAK
Christoph Merian Stiftung
Beisheim Stiftung
Sulger-Stiftung

S AM Sponsors:
ComputerWorks AG
Marti AG Basel
HIAG

S AM Partners:
Levante
Karl Bubenhofer AG
Gremper AG

THE ENTIRE PROJECT ‹SAY SWISS ARCHITECTURE YEARBOOK› IS SUPPORTED BY:

SAY Founding Partners:
S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum
BSA BUND Schweizer Architektinnen und Architekten
werk, bauen+wohnen

SAY 2025/26 Cultural Funders:
Partners
EMCH Aufzüge AG
Kästli Storen
RÖ Röthlisberger
zirkulit AG

Public InstitutionsBundesamt für Kultur BAK
Pro Helvetia - Schweizer Kulturstiftung
SWISSLOS Kanton Aargau
Appenzell Ausserrhoden Kulturförderung
SWISSLOS Kultur Kanton Bern
Staat Freiburg
SWISSLOS Glarus
Kulturförderung Graubünden. Amt für Kultur
ne.ch République et Canton de Neuchâtel
SWISSLOS Kulturförderung Kanton Obwalden
SWISSLOS Kulturförderung Kanton Schwyz
SWISSLOS Fonds des Kantons Solothurn
Kanton St. Gallen Kulturförderung
Thurgau Lotteriefonds
SWISSLOS Kanton Uri
SWISSLOS Kanton Zürich Kulturförderung

Foundation
Ernst Göhner Stiftung

Upcoming exhibitions

19.09.2026 - 03.01.2027

Tony Fretton: Practice

Opening: 18/9/2026, 7 PM

The S AM Swiss Architecture Museum is proud to announce PRACTICE, a retrospective exhibition of selected projects of architect Tony Fretton (b. 1945, London). He established Tony Fretton Architects in London in 1984, which ran until 2024. His published texts on architecture are numerous, and he has taught extensively, including as Chair of Interiors Buildings and Cities at the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft, and as guest professor at GSD Harvard, ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne. He lives and works in London.

Fretton’s buildings and projects are presented at S AM through texts, photographs and drawings. Together, they show Fretton’s practice as continuity of reflection on the existing environment, including the social, cultural and political dimensions of the city and what lies outside it.