Swiss Talks

144 pages, Italian/English

Based in Rome, Milan and Palermo, Istituto Svizzero is an interdisciplinary platform bringing together artistic and scientific research and maintaining a residency program for emerging young artists and researchers. The series Swiss Talks is part of the public program of Istituto Svizzero. This publication is intended to provide a significant fragment of the cultural project Swiss Talks, born from the collaboration between Istituto Svizzero and Casabella Formazione. Since 2017, it has been promoting Swiss architectural culture in Italy through the organisation of public meetings in Milan, Rome, Palermo, and Venice. The topics, each forming a chapter of the book (Zurich-Milan and return; Architecture in the Age of Tourism; A new life; Architecture as a cultural crossover; Experimental architecture; Art and architecture), are addressed by the invited authors through emblematic projects and short explanatory texts. The diversity, including generational, of the personalities involved reflects and enhances the multiplicity of points of view that is intrinsic to Swiss culture. Avariety of attitudes that also characterises contemporary architectural discourse, reflected in an inclusive and plural book form.

Essay by Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani. Contributions by Francesca Chiorino, Maria Conen (Conen Sigl), Irina Davidovici, Roger Diener (Diener & Diener), Tom Emerson (6a), Catherine Gay Menzel (GayMenzel), Maria Kahn, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Elli Mosayebi (EMI), Anna Puigjaner (Maio), Armando Ruinelli (Ruinelli Associati), Maria Saiz (Rapin Saiz), Christian Sumi (Burkhalter Sumi), Francesca Torzo, Federico Tranfa, Günther Vogt (vogt-la), Selina Walder (Nickisch Walder), Nemanja Zimonjic (TEN studio).