Sibylle Wälty's contribution has just been published in the S AM exhibition catalogue «Was wäre wenn / What if».
Sibylle Wälty's profound essay «Projekt und ihre Veränderungen: Thesen auf dem Prüfstand» introduces the chapter «Verändert». Using six theses, she analyses the urban changes and addresses challenges such as housing shortages and traffic congestion.
S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum
Andreas Kofler, Andreas Ruby (Hg.)
Was wäre wenn / What if
Ungebaute Architektur in der Schweiz / Unbuilt Architecture in Switzerland
November 2023
358 Pages
Swiss brochure with open thread stitching
22×28cm German/Englisch
SBN 978-3-85616-997-8
To the publication
Exhibition
S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum
«WHAT IF – Unbuilt Architecture in Switzerland»
25.11.2023 - 07.04.2024
Very few countries give their population such a far-reaching democratic right of co-determination in the realisation of architecture and urbanism as does Switzerland. While this has produced a democratically approved architecture that is unique in the world, it has also prevented numerous projects from becoming part of the country’s built history.
Whether lost, rejected, stalled or changed … there is a multitude of architectural designs that continue to be talked about to this day in Switzerland, even though they have never been executed. Those longed for, but not realised works are not single episodes but part of the everyday life of any architecture office, no matter how spoilt with success it may be.
In dialogue with almost two dozen architectural institutions from all parts of the country, What If attempts to make a representative selection from an nearly infinite pool of projects. These projects combined draw a picture of an alternative Switzerland, in which the courage to embrace utopia is greater than the fear of avoiding mistakes.
Curator: Andreas Kofler
external pagewww.sam-basel.org