SAY 2023

Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2023/24

Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS, Swiss Architecture Museum S AM, Andreas Ruby , werk, bauen+wohnen

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English

Park Books
01 February 2024

Architecture; Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs

The new SAY Swiss Architecture Yearbook is the first of its kind in Switzerland. Jointly edited by the Basel-based Swiss Architecture Museum S AM and the renowned architecture journal werk, bauen+wohnen on behalf of the Stiftung Architektur Schweiz, it reflects the country's remarkably diverse architectural creation and provides international visibility for the outstanding quality of Swiss architecture and building culture.

Yet SAY is more than a mere selection of the best: it thoroughly examines current topics that concern many people at the time of a construction boom in the country and amid the increasingly felt effects of climate change. From a list of well over a hundred nominees from all parts of the country, 36 projects were selected by an international jury for SAY's inaugural 2023/24 edition. The featured projects are supplemented by topical essays that look at the most pressing questions in Swiss architecture discourse, at the characteristics of Swiss architecture today, and examine what lasting contribution it makes to the quality of life in all parts of the country.

AUTHORS: Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS, established in 2022, supports and promotes national and international visibility of and the professional dialogue on architecture and building culture in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Swiss Architecture Museum S AM in Basel, founded in 1984 and active under its current name since 2006, is Switzerland's leading institution for the display of and dialogue on contemporary architecture. Andreas Ruby is an art historian and educator serving as S AM's director since 2016. werk, bauen + wohnen, published since 1914, is Switzerland's foremost architecture journal. Daniel Kurz is a historian and architecture critic and was chief editor of werk, bauen + wohnen during 201221.

SELLING POINTS: .

Inaugural edition of the new biennial Swiss Architecture Yearbook .

Showcases 36 outstanding new buildings as well as urban and landscape design projects, selected by an international jury .

With supplementary essays on the most relevant topics in the face of current challenges in the field of architecture and urban design

230 colour, 30 b/w illustartions

Edited by: Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS, Swiss Architecture Museum S AM, Andreas Ruby, werk, bauen+wohnen, Daniel Kurz
Imprint: Park Books
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 320mm, Width: 220mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.764kg
ISBN: 9783038603399
ISBN 10: 3038603392
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Stiftung Architektur Schweiz SAS, established in 2022, supports and promotes national and international visibility of and the professional dialogue on architecture and building culture in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. The Swiss Architecture Museum S AM in Basel, founded in 1984 and active under its current name since 2006, is Switzerland’s leading institution for the display of and dialogue on contemporary architecture. Andreas Ruby is an art historian and educator serving as S AM’s director since 2016. werk, bauen + wohnen, published since 1914, is Switzerland’s foremost architecture journal. Daniel Kurz is a historian and architecture critic and was chief editor of werk, bauen + wohnen during 2012–21.

Reviews for SAY 2023: Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2023/24

""Instead of presenting the 36 projects in geographical or typological chapters, the editors opt for nine thematic chapters, each one conveying an architectural approach that is foregrounded by Swiss architects, expressed via a parallel critical essay. The projects are described in the usual photographs, drawings, and brief texts from the architects on the majority of each spread, while the right third is home to the essay, clearly highlighted by a different background color for each chapter. The essays -- by Ruby, Sabine Wolf, Bruno Marchand, and numerous others -- serve to situate the projects within the themes: 'climate-conscious construction, ' 'reclaimed spaces, ' 'village tales, ' and so forth. English text is on the top half of the page, while the original, be it German, Italian, or French, is along the bottom. . . While the themes that structure the book are hardly exclusive to Swiss architecture, the projects in the book point the way to some commendable means of addressing contemporary crises.""-- ""A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books - Book of the Week""