Category: Architecture

  • AlpHouse

    AlpHouse

    The Alps are characterized by unique natural and cultural landscapes. These have produced a wide range of characteristic building types, which emerged out of a long-term adaption to climatic and geographic conditions. Today they form an important element of the attractiveness of the Alps as a space for living and recreation. If we want to preserve and…

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  • Lessons from Tyrolean Modernism I, II, III

    Lessons from Tyrolean Modernism I, II, III

    Series of articles for Archalp on three architects that shaped the entanglement of modernist design principles with vernacular building traditions in the Tyrolean Alps. Lesson I – Siegfried Mazagg and the Berghof in SeefeldAvailable here Lesson II – Franz Baumann and the Landhaus ZachAvailable here Lessin III – Lois WelzenbacherAvailable here

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