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Duplex Architects

Rethinking Housing

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Duplex Architects exemplarily demonstrate how innovate housing design in Switzerland works and what it can contribute to urban development


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«Exceptional graphics, and a clear sense of purpose, make each of the projects very clear and very compelling. »

«Exceptional graphics, and a clear sense of purpose, make each of the projects very clear and very compelling. »

Architectural & Design Books and Supplies, Seattle
Title Details
Edited by Ludovic Balland, Nele Dechmann
2021
Hardback
416 pages, 119 color and 829 b/w illustrations
23 x 30 cm
ISBN 978-3-03860-230-9

Duplex Architects, founded in 2007 in Zurich and with offices also in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and, most recently, also in Paris, have gained an excellent reputation internationally for their designs of various scales and vast range of typologies.

This first monograph on Duplex Architects’ work in Germany and Switzerland offers a close look at their approach to housing design. Five projects in Switzerland are documented extensively through a wealth of images, plans, and visualizations and exemplify the firm’s position on urban planning, typology research, and materiality and demonstrate their utterly independent way of working.

Urban scale, search for new forms of communal living, the importance of community and a collaborative design process are at the core of Duplex Architects’ considerations in residential architecture. Nele Dechmann’s text and Ludovic Balland’s photo essay both illuminate Duplex Architects’ work each in its own way. Further texts are contributed by the firm’s founding partners Anne Kaestle and Dan Schürch, as well as by other expert authors, who cast their own personal glance at the five projects featured in this book.

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“Exceptional graphics, and a clear sense of purpose, make each of the projects very clear and very compelling. It is the vast task of Rethinking Housing.” Peter Miller Architectural & Design Books and Supplies, Seattle

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