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BERNINA TRANSVERSAL

Ar­chi­tec­ture and Pho­to­graphy—In­ter­ven­tion and Re­ac­tion A pictorial epos on the spec­tac­u­lar Alpine land­scape on Bern­ina Pass—in­tensely used for tour­ism, en­ergy pro­duc­tion, and as transit route—and its in­fra­struc­ture build­ings. It in­cludes the unique Cam­era Obscura on the top floor of the silo tower.

132 pages, 76 duo­tone il­lus­tra­tions and 7 plans, texts in Ger­man, Eng­lish and Italian
With con­tri­bu­tions by Philip Urpsrung and Reto Hänny
Ed­ited by Ver­ein Er­leb­n­is­raum Bern­ina Gla­ciers
Design by Bon­bon, Zurich

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Amurs

The pub­lic­a­tion Amurs (Loves) con­cen­trates on a choice group of nine­teen struc­tures. The title refers to the fact that these pro­jects were the ar­chi­tects’ per­sonal se­lec­tion; il­lus­trated with large-format pho­tos by Tona­tiuh Am­brosetti and Ralph Feiner. An es­say by Iso Ca­martin, pub­li­cist and writer from Graubünden, of­fers an in­tro­duc­tion to the work of the ar­chi­tects.  

CHF 89.– / EUR 83.–
2013. Hard­cover
Pub­lisher: Bearth & De­plazes Ar­chitek­ten

Texts in eng­lish and ger­man
ISBN 978-3-85676-305-3

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Constructs

Kon­strukte/​Con­structs Bearth & De­plazes - Each and every build­ing as­sign­ment rep­res­ents a spe­cific theme to be dis­covered and de­veloped. Their in­di­vidual build­ings are aph­or­isms that elu­cid­ate their ar­chi­tec­tural ideas and in­ten­tions only when seen as a sum total. Sens­it­ive re­flec­tions made by Ákos Moraván­szky ac­com­pany the ex­tens­ive mono­graphic rep­res­ent­a­tion of the works of the ar­chi­tects to date. A fas­cin­at­ing es­say by An­drea De­plazes deals with the com­plex spe­cific­a­tions of the con­struc­tion task.

CHF 98.– / EUR 69.–
376 pages, Hard­cover

Ger­man/ Eng­lish (out of print)
ISBN 978-3-907631-37-9
Ver­lag: Quart Verlag (GmbH)

New Monte-Rosa-Hut SAC

New Monte-Rosa-Hut SAC ETH Stu­dio Monte Rosa in col­lab­or­a­tion with Bearth & De­plazes Ar­chitek­ten Chur / Zürich The new alpine hut on Monte Rosa, at an alti­tude of 2883 meters (9458 feet) near Zer­matt, was opened in Septem­ber 2009. The in­nov­at­ive build­ing emerged from a col­lab­or­at­ive ef­fort between the Swiss Fed­eral In­sti­tute of Tech­no­logy (ETH) in Zurich, the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), and many ex­perts and spe­cial­ist man­u­fac­tur­ers. The new Monte Rosa Hut is the res­ult of pi­on­eer­ing tech­no­lo­gies in design, cal­cu­la­tion and build­ing con­struc­tion. In the form of dis­cus­sions, es­says on spe­cial top­ics, pho­to­graphs and plans, this volume doc­u­ments the build­ing’s gen­esis and plan­ning and the con­struc­tion of this mile­stone in high alpine ar­chi­tec­ture.

CHF 65.– / EUR 61.–

New Monte Rosa Hut SAC
Self-Suf­fi­cient Build­ing in High Alps

Eng­lish
ISBN 978-3-85676-274-2

Française
ISBN 978-3-85676-275-9

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Constructing Architecture

Con­struct­ing Ar­chi­tec­ture – Ma­ter­i­als, Pro­cesses, Struc­tures An­drea De­plazes (Ed.) This in­ter­na­tion­ally prizewin­ning volume now ap­pears in its third, re­vised and ex­pan­ded edi­tion. Since the first edi­tion was pub­lished in 2005, it has been ad­op­ted as a text­book at many uni­versit­ies.

EUR 54.95

3rd ex­pan­ded edi­tion 2013

Birkhäuser Ver­lag

ISBN 978-3-03821-452-6

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Spacepieces

Spa­cepieces Valentin Bearth & An­drea De­plazes have an im­press­ive oeuvre to their credit, an oeuvre that has grown con­tinu­ously over the past ten years. Their ar­chi­tec­ture is free of all re­pe­ti­tion and ste­reo­typed con­ven­tion, and it can­not be clas­si­fied in any cat­egory of trendy ar­chi­tec­ture.

CHF 48.– / EUR 34.–
68 Pages, Bro­chure

Ger­man (out of print)
ISBN 978-3-907631-00-3
Eng­lish (out of print)
ISBN 978-3-907631-02-7
Italian
ISBN 978-3-907631-03-4

 

 

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Microcosmi

Mi­cro­cosmi doc­u­ments the di­dactic activ­ity of Valentin Bearth’s Design Stu­dio at the Mendrisio Academy of Ar­chi­tec­ture between 2004 and 2012. It de­scribes the meth­od­o­logy and the premises of the course within the con­text of the school and presents a se­lec­tion of stu­dent pro­jects. The di­dactic re­port is com­pleted by the tran­scrip­tion of a lec­ture by Aure­lio Galfetti, where the par­al­lel present­a­tion of two built pro­jects, the Rotal­inti House in Bellin­zona and his house on the is­land of Paros, of­fers a sig­ni­fic­ant con­tri­bu­tion on the theme of in­hab­it­a­tion.

CHF 60.–
352 Pages, Hard­cover
Atelier Bearth Mi­cro­cosmi ed­ited by di Mi­hail Am­ar­iei

Eng­lish / Italian
ISBN 978-88-876-24-56-4

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Federal Criminal Court

Pub­lic­a­tion about Fed­eral Crim­inal Court in Bellin­zona/ Ar­chi­tects: Bearth & De­plazes Ar­chitek­ten in col­lab­or­a­tion with Dur­isch + Nolli Ar­chitetti. The book con­tains many beau­ti­ful il­lus­tra­tions and is tri­lin­gual: Ger­man, Italian and French

Pub­lisher: Fed­eral Of­fice for Build­ings and Lo­gist­ics – 2013

ISBN-Nr. 978-3-905782-19-6

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