Menzingen Cantonal School KSM: Refurbishing Architectural Heritage. Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten

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Heinz Wirz

Menzingen Cantonal School KSM

Refurbishing Architectural Heritage. Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten

Heinz Wirz

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English

Quart Publishers
01 October 2023

Architecture; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial

The former Bernarda teacher training college in Menzingen was built between 1955 and 1958 by the two renowned Zug architectural teams of Hanns A. Brütsch and Alois Stadler, and Leo Hafner and Alfons Wiederkehr. The school on a gentle slope in the midst of the attractive landscape between Lake Zug and Lake Zurich is an exceptional example of 1950s Swiss architecture. The facility impresses with its staging of the exposed location, the coherent arrangement of five highly individualised buildings around a circular centre, and the notable design of the open spaces by Ernst Kramer.

Between 2017 and 2019, the facility was renovated and extended in exemplary fashion by the Zurich architectural team Bünzli & Courvoisier. On the one hand, the project is strongly orientated towards the urban-planning and architectural design principles of the existing building. On the other, the architects develop the existing structures further like a collage, thereby giving the school a respectfully staged, extended dramatic quality.

The volume extensively reflects upon and documents in detail the school's exciting, exemplary renovation.

Text in English and German.

Features articles by Andrea Burkhard, Christian Honger, Gerold Kunz, Arthur Ruegg, Urs Stahel, and Günther Vogt.

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The book documents the existing facility with original plans and the clear-contoured, black & white pictures by the renowned Lucerne photographer Peter Ammon

80 colour, 25 b/w images

By: Heinz Wirz
Imprint: Quart Publishers
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 290mm, Width: 225mm,
Weight: 1.050kg
ISBN: 9783037612316
ISBN 10: 3037612312
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 01 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Features articles by Andrea Burkhard, Christian Hoenger, Gerold Kunz, Arthur Ruegg, Urs Stahel, and Gunther Vogt