a+u 639 Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekt*innen

Description

This issue features the Swiss architecture firm known as EMI, established in 2005 by architects Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin. Their works span exhibitions, refurbishments, new buildings, and urban planning, but housing remains their primary interest as they examine and reinterpret the small-scale components that contribute to human agency and enjoyment within a dwelling. The 21 projects featured here range from gardens and landscapes to villas and high-rises. In all of them, EMI embeds rational design choices with notions of poetry, as evidenced in the Brüggliäcker Housing Complex in Zurich, Stockmattstrasse Townhouses in Baden, and others.

CONTENTS

• Essay: Ruins, André Tavares
• Garden
  Avellana Housing Complex
  Schauenbergstrasse Apartment Building
  Steinwiesstrasse Apartment Building
  House on a Big Lawn
  Freihofstrasse Apartment Building
  Brüggliäcker Housing Complex
  Stockmattstrasse Townhouses
  Signau House and Garden
  Narzissenstrasse Apartment Building
  House with 2 Entries
  Weststrasse Residential and Office Building
  Guggach Residential Development
  Residential and Commercial Building MIN MAX
  Riedacker Residential Development
  Performative House
  A Clockwork House
  Refurbishment of Theater Winterthur
  Bellevue, Theaterstrasse
  Chliriet School Building
  Anthropomorphic Form
• Essay: Soft Machines, Jeannette Kuo
• Conversation: “What Unites Our Projects Are the Stories They Tell”, Ron Edelaar, Elli Mosayebi, and Christian Inderbitzin