Esch Sintzel Architekten

Swiss architecture firm Esch Sintzel Architekten has won much recognition for its exemplary designs that continue to build the city and navigate between the realms of housing, urban design, and sustainability. Esch Sintzel Architekten, founded in Zurich in 2008, is one of the most influential voices in contemporary Swiss architecture. The range of the firm's award-winning designs includes varied typologies such as infrastructure buildings, schools, and market halls. Yet, at the core of their work, are housing projects in which challenging circumstances often lead to the emergence of very specific solutions and qualities to the benefit of both the individual house or apartment and the city as a whole. Esch Sintzel Architekten's work is characterised by the prudent use of available resources as well as great respect for the existing fabric and its careful further development. The virtuoso mastery of structural means enables them to translate technical requirements into expressive, beautiful designs. This monograph offers a comprehensive survey of Esch Sintzel Architekten's entire body of work, exploring its full range and drilling down to constructive details, and placing it in a wider context. It features all the realised designs and a selection of projects through plans, images and texts. Text in English and German. AUTHOR: Martin Tschanz is an architect and architectural historian. He has been a lecturer for the history and theory of architecture at ZHAW's School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering in Winterthur, Switzerland, since 2005. SELLING POINTS: . Comprehensive monograph on the work of Zurich-based Esch Sintzel Architekten . Features all of Esch Sintzel's realised designs and a selection of projects through plans, images and texts . Offers detailed floor plans, drawings of construction details, and information on construction materials . Esch Sintzel Architekten are among the most influential voices in contemporary Swiss architecture 336 colour, 144 b/w illustrations