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Armando Ruinelli Architetti

Progetti 1982–2022. Leggere il tempo

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Armando Ruinelli: an internationally revered master of building in existing fabric and in an Alpine environment.

Multilingual Edition (German, Italian)
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Title Details
Edited by Axel Simon
2023
Paperback
248 pages, 137 color and 214 b/w illustrations
21 x 28 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-320-7

Rarely is an architect as closely connected to his or her place of work as is the case with Armando Ruinelli, born 1954, and his native village of Soglio in Val Bregaglia, Switzerland. Yet, far from what one might expect with such a small and remote place of barely 100 inhabitants, the limitation in this case became a distinction. Ruinelli’s attitude and work have grown organically from the village’s strong stone-built dwellings. Thus, he has become an internationally revered master of building in existing fabric, in particular in an Alpine environment.

This first monograph on Armando Ruinelli documents comprehensively his work over nearly four decades. It demonstrates the evolution of his architectural language from the first buildings in Soglio of the 1980s, to conversions of existing buildings and designs for new ones that continue local traditions but also meet today’s demands in housing, and to the latest works, such as the almost abstract studio for Swiss artist Miriam Cahn in Stampa.

Photographs and plans, as well as a photo essay newly created for this book by Swiss photographer Katalin Deér, are supplemented with texts and conversations between Ruinelli and his equally renowned fellow architect Gion A. Caminada that illuminate the architect’s work and attitude and convey the particular features of his Alpine environment.

Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2023.

Echo

«Der Kontrast des rundum wunderbaren Buches zu üblichen Hochglanz-Architektur-Monografien könnte nicht grösser sein, ein Buch zum Geniessen und Nachdenken.» Steffen Kühn, kultur-extra

«Dieses Buch ist eine grossartige Hommage an Soglio und an das bewundernswerte Werk des Architekten Armando Ruinelli!» Herbert Pardatscher-Bestle, Bücherrundschau

«Bilder, Pläne und präzise Texte, sodass auch der Architektur-Laie sich das Haus in seinem Kopf zusammensetzen kann.» Köbi Gantenbein, Engadiner Post

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