Eröffnet wurde das Museum im Juni 1984 mit der Installation "Wrapped Floors im Architekturmuseum" des amerikanischen Künstlers Christo. Die Arbeit wirkte als „Hommage“ an das Haus. Christo bedeckte die Böden mit Stoffbahnen, klebte die Glas fronten mit Papier zu, isolierte so das Innere von der Aussenwelt, verwandelte jedes Stockwerk in einen Kontemplationsraum. So lernten die ersten Besucher die Architektur des Hauses kennen.
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.
