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Every Swiss rail passenger is familiar with the work of the architect
MAX VOGT. He is the creator of the central signal tower at Zurich’s main station, of the Zurich-Altstetten railway station with its striking ten-floor apartment building, and of the station houses in Killwangen-Spreitenbach, Effretikon and Thalwil, to name but a few of his works. The then-innovative combination of living space with railway infrastructure was just beginning to produce new architectural forms when in 1957 Max Vogt (born 1925) signed on as a design architect with the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). He worked all around Zurich, from Kaiseraugst to Chur, from Lake Constance to Lake Walen, producing impressive concrete structures distinguished by their unstinting functionalism and radical modernity. Zurich photographer MARTIN STOLLENWERK (born 1962) spent several years on a project devoted to Vogt’s landmarks, painstakingly documenting the entire work of the architect, now over 80, and thus creating the first-ever complete overview of his buildings. Stollenwerk’s photographs are typically frontal and diffusely lit, a compositional technique which allows his subjects to be compared with one another. The result is an exemplary study of Vogt’s formal vocabulary, as expressed in creations remarkable for both their opulence and their severity. The exhibition has already been on view at the Museum im Bellpark in Kriens, and, like the publication of the gta Verlag, features some seventy photographs by Martin Stollenwerk.
OPENING 31. MAI 2007 6PM
SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, ZURICH
AUDITORIUM E3, HIL, HÖNGGERBERG
ARCHITEKTURFOYER HIL, ETH HÖNGGERBERG
Institut gta, ETH Zürich, Wolfgang Pauli - Strasse 15, CH-8093 Zürich Switzerland
Tram / Bus from Zürich Mainstation:
Tram 11 to Bucheggplatz, Bus 69 bis ETH
EXHIBITION JUNE 1st TO JULY 26. 2007
Mo thru Fry 8 am - 10 pm
Saturday 8 am - 12
Closed Sundays and Holydays
Selection of Photos
Download Invitaion Flyer PDF
Ultrachrome K3 pigment print on hand made paper 280g / m2
framed, aprox. 65x75 cm
5 copies each
CHF 1'800.- EURO 1100.-
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"MARTIN STOLLENWERK SBB BAUTEN MAX VOGT"
With contributions by Axel Simon, Juri Steiner and Hilar Stadler
23x28cm, Hardcover, 120 S., numerous images
Verlag gta, ETH Zürich ISBN-10 3-85676-204-3, ISBN-13 978-3-85676-204-9
CHF 38.- / Euro 26.-
 
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