Basel-based Buchner Bründler Architects: one of Switzerland's most distinguished architectural firms of the younger generation

Basel-based architects Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bründler established their studio in 1997 and soon gained wide recognition for their designs. Today, Buchner Bründler Architects ranks among the leading Swiss firms of the younger generation. This book, their second major monograph, features around fifteen completed projects from 2010 to 2020 in rich detail. The selection comprises new buildings as well as significant reconstructions, with a focus on housing designs of various size and type in Switzerland and Germany. This is supplemented by a heavily illustrated survey of another fifty buildings and unrealized projects. In total, this lavish volume features some 1,500 photographs, sketches, plans, and visualizations, most of them previously unpublished.

Yet Buchner Bründler Buildings II does not merely bring together images of individual buildings. Instead, it places them in a larger context with concise texts that explore as well historic, social, and economical aspects of the specific location. Moreover, the renowned Swiss book designer Ludovic Balland and his collaborator Annina Schepping have experimented with a range of photographic methods and techniques. Their artistic interpretations of Buchner Bründler's buildings complete a stunningly beautiful volume.

• Basel-based Buchner Bründler Architects are one of Switzerland's leading firms of the younger generation
• This new monograph features some 60 built and unrealized designs by Buchner Bründler Architects
• Heavily illustrated with some 1,500 photographs, sketches, plans, and visualizations, most of them previously unpublished

• The firms's first monograph Buchner Bründler: Buildings (gta Verlag, 2011), also designed by Ludovic Balland, won the gold medal in the 2012 Best Book Design from all over the World competition

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  Daniel Buchner und Andreas Bründler gründeten ihr Büro Buchner Bründler Architekten in Basel 1997. Seither gehört das Büro zu den meistbeachteten Architekturbüros der Schweiz.

Ludovic Balland lebt und arbeitet als grafischer Gestalter, Herausgeber und Entwickler kompletter Buchkonzepte in Basel. Er war 2017-2020 Professor für Typografie an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst HGB in Leipzig.