In celebration of Switzerland's rich architectural
heritage and the unveiling of the new de Young Museum
by the Swiss architecture firm Studio Basel of Herzog
& de Meuron, the four Swiss architecture schools, in
collaboration with swissnex, California College of the
Arts (CCA), and the University of California at
Berkeley's Department of Architecture, will present a
month-long interactive exhibition at CCA in San
Francisco entitled "Inventioneering Architecture" and
an accompanying lecture series on Swiss architectural
teaching. Participants include members of the
architecture faculties of the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ); Academy of
Architecture, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
in Mendrisio; Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL); and the Institute of Architecture at the
University of Geneva.
Exhibit: Inventioneering Architecture will be on
display in the nave at California College of the Arts
(CCA) in San Francisco and will feature a
40-meter-long (131-foot-long) platform of an
imaginative cross-section of the Swiss Alps, imported
from Switzerland and created specifically for this event.
This exhibition will give visitors a physical and
intellectual opportunity to experience the differences
between Swiss architecture pedagogy and American
architecture teaching methods. Visitors can walk on
the platform, view monitors with web-based
architecture content and add their own thoughts at
various terminals. An overhead screen will display
Swiss architecture projects in CAAD software.
Opening reception: October 3, 2005, 6pm. The exhibit
will be on display until October 27, everyday from
8:00 am to 8:00 pm (no cover).
Lectures: (All are free and open to the public)
· October 3, 2005, 7pm: Marc Angélil, ETH Zurich
· October 10, 2005, 7pm: Andrea Deplazes, ETH
Zurich
· October 17, 2005, 7pm: Inès Lalumière, EPFL
· October 24, 2005, 7pm: Valerio Olgiati, Academy
of Architecture (USI)
· October 31, 2005, 7pm: Dirk Hebel & Jörg
Stollmann, ETH Zurich
Video retransmission of each lecture:
www.architecture-radio.org/inventioneering
Sponsors: Presence Switzerland, Holcim, Arts Council
of Switzerland Pro Helvetia, swissnex
For more information, please visit www.swissnex.org,
or contact us directly!
We hope to see you there!
For the swissnex team:
Charlotte Jourdain, Programming & Development
swissnex : connecting the dots
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111 (USA)
T (415) 912-5901 x101, F (415) 912-5905
charlotte.jourdain@swissnex.org
www.swissnex.org