Architectural Papers

Global Housing Projects 2008
One could consider the project as historic criticism with the buildings as protagonists. The project is considered being a contribution in a wider context. Housing typologies are chosen because of the more evident parameters, which have been established until today. The main goal is to define contemporary architectural cannons of the past 25 years in one specific architectural field that is housing and at the same time give a perspective about the new important guidelines in domestic architecture.
The selection of influential housing projects of the last 25 years reflects the most innovative housing projects that have been built, seizing common notions and new demands. The slection of the contemporary practice should help explain and restructure our recent past as immediate base for our present


	Iconoclastia 2009 In former times buildings and other constructions that formalised singular moments for the community were called MONUMENTS. Expressions of power, celebrations of rituals and collective affirmations constituted their basis. Usually they were solid. They gathered the world around them; they used to ESTABLISH RELATIONS with their surroundings... Definitely TERRESTRIAL, a monument was like a rock - a mountain that erected dominated the plane. In the contemporary world, any architectural project with exceptional expressive will is commonly called an ICON. Etymologically, an icon is the REPRESENTATION of divinity throughout painting with a strong coded style. They were regarded as the presence of God and the Saints on earth. But the tradition of Icons has its antagonist incorporated. The ICONOCLASTIC MOVEMENT destroyed all the representation of divinity pleading that it destroys its very essence.	Contributors Yannis Aesopos Pier Vittorio Aureli Isabel Concheiro Sabine von Fischer Naoto Fukosawa Hans Ibelings Krunoslav Ivanisin Alicia Guerrero Yeste Freddy Massad Daniel Kiss Josep Lluis Mateo Jasper Morrison Agusti Obiol	Florian Sauter Peter Sloterdijk Elias Torres Tur Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Architectural Papers IV Iconoclastia 150 pages / published by Actar edited by Florian Sauter

	Global Housing Projects 2008 One could consider the project as historic criticism with the buildings as protagonists. The project is considered being a contribution in a wider context. Housing typologies are chosen because of the more evident parameters, which have been established until today. The main goal is to define contemporary architectural cannons of the past 25 years in one specific architectural field that is housing and at the same time give a perspective about the new important guidelines in domestic architecture. The selection of influential housing projects of the last 25 years reflects the most innovative housing projects that have been built, seizing common notions and new demands. The slection of the contemporary practice should help explain and restructure our recent past as immediate base for our present	Contributors Charles Correa Paulo Mendes da Rocha Jean Nouvel Alvar Siza Rem Koolhaas Riegler Riewe Hans Kollhoff Kazuyo Sejima MVRDV Josep Lluis Mateo Diener & Diener Herzog & De Meuron Eduardo Souto De Moura Rafael Iglesia Riken Yamamoto	Kazuhiro Kojima Stanley Saitowitz Christian Kerez Arangurengallegos Derek Dellekamp Lacaton Vassal Plot = BIG+JDS Chiba Manabu Ofis Arhitekti Cino Zucchi Dietmar Eberle Dominique Boudet Miquel Adria Erwin Viray Ramias Steinemann

Architectural Papers Monograph 25 Global Housing Projects 300 pages / published by Actar edited by Ramias Steinemann

	Natural Metaphor 2007 No interpretation of the idea of nature is good for all people in all places at all times. Charles Darwin’s century brought home forcefully the reality of time, of evolutionary process that ultimately transforms all things. Darwin’s contemporary T.H. Huxley believed that evolution forced the question of our place in nature upon us. Twentieth-century science posed a further interpretative challenge. We have reached the end of credible claims to certainty concerning nature. Given uncertainty, open-ended inquiry becomes a hallmark of rationality, and the idea of nature remains inevitably in flux.	Contributors Philip Ursprung Erwin Viray Christophe Girot Toni Girones Frederic Schwartz Patrick Gartmann Catherine Dumont D’Ayot Christian Kerez Olafur Eliasson Peter St. John Stan Allen Ramias Steinemann	Paulo Mendes Da Rocha Marcel Meili Inaki Abalos Josep Lluis Mateo Florian Sauter Manuel Castels Alice Hucker Mai Komuro Michal Krzywdziak Jonathan Lin Maria Viné Renzo Piano

Architectural Papers III Natural Metaphor 175 pages / published by Actar edited by Florian Sauter

	Bigscale Grossform 2006 According to natural scientific logics, the size of creatures in nature is strictly linked to their form. A fly for example possesses a form that can absolutely not be increased. Should this still occur, the hence emerging monster would collapse, because his supporting elements, although proportionally increased, would not be capable of carrying the overweight. If we consider architecture as a phenomenon that follows the laws of the physical world, size and scale appear as initial conditions, under which architecture has to be pondered. This volume of Architectural Papers gathers aseries of data, arguments and projects produced at our chair surrounding this theme.	Contributors David Adjaye Johan Arnys Eduardo Arroyo Zygmunt Baumann Ivo Bertolo Ferran Grau Josep Lluis Mateo Marcel Meili Tivadar Puskas Qingyun Ma	Hani Rashid Ramias Steinemann Philip Ursprung Maria Vine Elia Zenghelis

Architectural Papers II Bigscale Grossform 192 pages / published by GG edited by Ramias Steinemann

	Object Laboratory 2004 This publication intends to periodically transmit the pedagogical experience gained at our chair of the ETH of Zurich, Switzerland. To teach project design always entails a personal encounter between teacher and student acting on things one does not know with results that are not always conveniently judged among themselves, but as steps of a cognitive process open to the future; although it may also be convenient to evaluate pedagogical experience as a more general sphere, where questions, answers and ways of acting can be focused before the backdrop of a more global context.	Contributors Ivo Bertolo Sabine V.Fischer Gustavo Gili Galfetti Yung Ho Chang Diedrich Diederichsen Piet Eckert Christopphe Girot Ernst Hubeli Bernhard Khoury	Josep Lluis Mateo Maria Viné

Architectural Papers I Object Laboratory 174 pages / published by GG edited by Maria Vine