The Steiger House Doldertal, Zurich 1959: Rudolf Steiger and Flora Steiger-Crawford
Steiger, Rudolf
ISBN 10: 3037787678 ISBN 13: 9783037787670
Published by Lars Müller Publishers, 2025
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The Doldertal, a small valley north of the city of Zurich, is best known in the history of architecture as the residence of Swiss architectural theorist Siegfried Giedion, whose book Space, Time and Architecture (1941) is considered a landmark in the historiography of modernity. In 1936, Giedion commissions two houses designed by Alfred Roth and Marcel Breuer – known as the Doldertal Apartment Houses – which to this day remain among the most important built works of Neues Bauen in Switzerland. In 1959, the architect couple Flora Steiger-Crawford and Rudolf Steiger build their own homestead in the Doldertal – in immediate proximity to the Doldertal Apartment Houses. Crawford and Steiger are important representatives of the Swiss avant-garde; moreover, Flora Crawford is the first woman toreceiveadiplomainarchitecturefromETHZurich.Thatsameyear,AlfredRothdesignedanother building, the Fellowhouse, right next to House Steiger. House Steiger Doldertal Zurich 1959: Flora Steiger-Crawford and Rudolf Steiger offers a first in-depth look at the genesis of this masterpiece of modern Swiss architecture. Detailed analyses illustrate the central layout and outline the chronology, typology and construction of the building. Further contributions illuminate the relationship to local topography, the cultural context of the building, as well as important historical and contemporary architectural references, including House Steiger’s famous neighbors.
About the Author: MARIANNE BURKHALTER has worked as an architect in Florence (Superstudio), New York and Los Angeles (Studio Works) and was an auditor at the University of Princeton. She has taught at SCI-ARC in Los Angeles and at EPFL Lausanne. CHRISTIAN SUMI studied at the ETH Zurich. He has worked for the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) and taught at Harvard University GSD, EPFL Lausanne and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow.
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Title: The Steiger House Doldertal, Zurich 1959: ...
Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New