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Concepts and material associations in the work of Gigon/Guyer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Charles Rattray  and
Graeme Hutton
Charles Rattray
Affiliation:
The Scott Sutherland School of ArchitectureRobert Gordon UniversityGarthdeeAberdeen AB107QBUnited Kingdom
Graeme Hutton
Affiliation:
The School of ArchitectureUniversity of DundeeFaculty of Duncan of JordanstoneDundee DD14HNUnited Kingdom
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Extract

Zürich architects Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer display an enjoyment of the realities – both physical and intellectual – of architectural production and, to this extent, can be seen as part of a prevailing pattern in northern Switzerland. This paper comments on their work and shows it also to be creatively critical, subverting a number of modern orthodoxies and supplanting them with an affective internal logic.

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Design
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 16 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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