Nearly a century after the rise of Modernism, its clean lines and universal ideals still define much of Swiss and international architectural thinking. Yet beneath the surface lie forgotten narratives and exclusions. Two architecture professors at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich discuss how to reframe this legacy.
This month gta Verlag is publishing Values and Surfaces: Art, Economy, Architecture, the English translation and expansion of a collection of essays by art and architectural historian Philip Ursprung first published in German in 2017. Lynnette Widder, architect and professor at Columbia University, read the collection and sent us her impressions on it.