Hochparterre discusses long-term view of Schlieren
The publishing house Hochparterre launches a new issue of its architecture magazine. Among other things, the August issue is about the photographic long-term observation of the city of Schlieren over 15 years. In the new Hochparterre podcast, the makers of the large-scale project also have their say.
The Zurich publishing house Hochparterre has published its eponymous magazine for the month of August. Among other things, it is about the large-scale project Stadtwerdung im Zeitraffer by photographer Meret Wandeler and publicist Caspar Schärer. They have documented the structural development of the city of Schlieren in photos for 15 years, according to a media release. A book on the project has been published by Scheidegger & Spiess.
Rahel Marti also interviewed the two about their long-term photographic observation and its usefulness for spatial planning in the publisher’s new podcast Sach & Krach.
The new issue also deals with virtual dream landscapes that 3D artists and designers develop inspired by painting and nature. The text on these pixel paradises “seriously questions our treatment of nature”.
The issue also takes up the Architecture Biennale in Venice. It introduces readers to African architecture, which is also championed by the architect and professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich(ETH), Mariam Issoufou Kamara, who has her say in an interview.
Author Deborah Fehlmann looks at the Weiermatt housing estate in the Aargau municipality of Lupfig and “shows the Hüsli people the advantages of cooperative building”. And urban wanderer and architecture critic Benedikt Loderer calls for the creation of a second old town in Biel in the hospital area.