Wohnhochhäuser / Residential Towers
Guest Lecturer Gigon / Guyer FS09
ETH Zürich
2009

Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer, Felix Jerusalem (Hrsg.)
Residential Towers
gta Verlag
ETH Zürich, 2016

Contributions by Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer, Felix Jerusalem, Andreas Tönnesmann mit Niklas Naehrig, Britta Hentschel and Gregory Grämiger, Dietrich Neumann, Philip Ursprung
Designed by Trix Wetter

With the increasing densification of the cities, high-rise accommodation is gaining in importance. Climatic, constructional and social challenges have often led to highly innovative solutions for the residential tower, as a recent architectural type that is still constantly evolving. This selection of 80 architecturally exemplary tower blocks on five continents makes it possible to compare various different approaches. Buildings ranging in time from the 1930s to the present are each portrayed with plans, photographs and short texts, along with biographical notes on the architects. The introduction and three essays discuss various aspects of the development and significance of the residential tower in the international context.

Award Meilleur livre architecture FILAF – festival international du livre d’art et du film, Perpignan

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Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer, Gregory Grämiger, Barbara Schlauri, Ulrike Traut (Hrsg.)
Bibliotheksbauten
Library Buildings
gta Verlag
ETH Zürich, 2018
328 Seiten
ISBN 978-3-85676-381-7

German
Preface by Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer
Contributions by Gregory Grämiger, Michael Hagner, Markus Joachim, Ilma Rakusa, Arthur Rüegg, Philip Ursprung

Library buildings have always served not only to store knowledge, but also as collective places for study, quiet reading and communication. Although the supposedly unrestricted availability of information on the Internet has created competition for the printed book, spectacular buildings testify to the unbroken topicality and fascination of constructing public Libraries.
Photographs, plans and a detailed explanatory text showcase 40 particularly innovative library buildings from Europe, Asia and America. Six accompanying texts discuss the places where books are collected, used, read and loved.
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Annette Gigon, Mike Guyer, Arend Kölsch (Eds.)
Bürogebäude
Office Buildings
gta Verlag
ETH Zürich, 2019

German
Preface by Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer
Contributions by Hubertus Adam, Marcel Bächtiger, Kurt W. Forster, Arend Kölsch, Arthur Rüegg
Designed by Trix Wetter

Are office buildings mundane, repetitive, and trite? Or has this building practice also initiated unusual designs and constructive solutions? What changes have office work and its office spaces experienced? This volume deals with such questions in examining fifty exemplary buildings. They range from the emergence of the office building as an independent genre in Chicago in the late 19th century, to canonical representatives of the International Style or prototypical experiments in the 1960s and 1970s, to current examples. Among the selected examples are the Monadnock Building by Burnham & Root, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, Kenzō Tange’s building for the Shizuoka Press and Broadcasting Company, and the Gehry Partners’ buildings for the Facebook corporate headquarters. Five accompanying essays deal with the historical, cultural and economic developments that have shaped office architecture as individual buildings from various specialist perspectives.

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