Overview
- Architecture with a feel for material and detail
- Classical modernism in contemporary form
- Strong presence in Buenos Aires, the first Unesco City of Design
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About this book
The Argentine architect Ignacio Dahl Rocha and the Swiss architect Jacques Richter have been regarded as prominent champions of an elegant brand of modernity at least since their design of the Espacité Tower on Place Le Corbusier in La Chaux-de-Fonds and their renovation of Jean Tschumi’s Nestlé corporate headquarters on the shores of Lake Geneva. Their work in the United States and Canada, which began when they were students together at Yale University, is increasingly expanding to include South America as well. In the last fifteen years, they have completed numerous projects, including cultural, educational, administrative, hospital, and residential buildings, primarily in Switzerland but also in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and Argentina. The most important are presented here, in this only current monograph on the firm.
About the authors
Jorge Francisco Liernur is an architect and chairman of the Center of Studies on Contemporary Architecture at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. He has acted as visiting scholar and lecturer at numerous universities including Harvard, Princeton, SCI-Arc, Columbia, Barcelona and Zurich Polytechnic.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Architecture of Richter & Dahl Rocha
Editors: Denise Bratton, Caroline Dionne
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8205-6
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 245
Number of Illustrations: 227 b/w illustrations, 179 illustrations in colour
Topics: Architects