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AE Dialogue 016 Swiss Minimalism in the 1990s

par Van Acker, Wouter ;Davidovici, Irina;Manthripragada, Ajay;Bedford, Joseph
Référence Podcast for AE Dialogues
Publication Publié, 2024-09-24

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This AE Dialogue addresses the topic of Swiss Minimalism in the 1990s. Even the phrase “Swiss Minimalism” will be disputed by our three participants today but it nonetheless captures something of our topic, a certain image of a coherent body of work being built by practitioners such as Herzog and De Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Gigon and Guyer, and Peter Markli, in Switzerland during the 1990s and that, in contrast to the highly complex, formalism or semiotically referential work of postmodernism and deconstructivism seemed much more paired down, simple and, well, … minimal. But what exactly was this body of work all about? Why did it become so internationally recognized and admired? What characterizes it? Where did it occur? And why? What are the common tropes and tendencies that define it? What were the theories behind it and so on?