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SAY 2023

Swiss Architecture Yearbook 2023/24

The inaugural edition of the new Swiss Architecture Yearbook.

The new SAY 2023/24: 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 provides international visibility for the outstanding quality and diversity of Swiss architecture and building culture.

But SAY is more than a mere selection of the best: it thoroughly examines timely topics such as the current construction boom and the increasingly felt effects of climate change. From a list of over one hundred nominees from all parts of the country, 36 projects were selected by an international jury for this 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.

304 pages | 261 color plates, 168 halftones | 8.66 x 12.6 | © 2023

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"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."

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