Visiting Lecture | Jürg Keller + Christian Scheidegger: Society of Rooms

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 12 - 2pm

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Visiting Lecture | Jürg Keller + Christian Scheidegger: Society of Rooms

Visiting Lecture | Jürg Keller + Christian Scheidegger: Society of Rooms
Images courtesy of Karin Gauch and Fabian Schwartz.

Images courtesy of Karin Gauch and Fabian Schwartz.

This lecture will be conducted through Zoom. Please register in advance here. Zoom account registration is required.

In contrast to other programs, rooms in housing are small and occur in large numbers. Permeated by laws and conventions, they are yet surprisingly free in their arrangement, connections, geometry, size and construction, while they take on many different shapes and scales depending on the type of housing. Rereading the genius loci and questioning the program, the existing and the given framework opens up unexpected spatial possibilities: collective overlaps, unexpected sequences, two-story spaces, leaps in scale. Working on these, the project becomes specific, but at the same time attackable and vulnerable.

The presentation will be followed by a conversation and Q & A moderated by Nader Tehrani and Nima Javidi.

Christian Scheidegger studied architecture at ETH Zürich from 1998 to 2004. In 2004 he was awarded with the ETH Medal and in 2002 for the diploma thesis project Leuk Congress Center and with the Swiss Steel Construction Award (Prix Acier) for the Office Tower on the Jelmoli Parking Garage in Zürich-City. From 2004 to 2009 he collaborated with Christian Kerez, where he was in charge of the School Building in Leutschenbach. Christian Scheidegger was at the ETH as a teaching assistant of Christian Kerez from 2009 to 2016 and as lecturer 2016/17. He was Workshop Leader at Porto Academy in 2019.

Jürg Keller studied architecture at ETH Zürich from 1997 to 2004. In 2010 he opened his own office, after collaborating with Christian Kerez, where he was in charge of the project House with one Wall in Zürich-Witikon from 2004 to 2006 and the Residential Complex Grünwald (Ringling) in Zurich-Höngg in the office Schneider Studer Primas from 2006 to 2009. Keller was a teaching assistant to Christian Kerez at the ETH from 2009 to 2016 and Workshop Leader at Porto Academy in 2019.

Scheidegger Keller was founded in 2009. Some of their most notable projects include House with two Columns in Wilen (2009-2014), House on a Slope 1 in Gordola (2011-17), the Multi-family Houses Zwyssigstrasse in Bern (2011-18) and the Student Housing Project Areal Rosengarten (2014-20). Their work has received numerous awards including the 2015 the Bauwelt-Award and the 2017 Concrete-Award (Architekturpreis Beton 17) among others.

This event is co-presented with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

This event is co-presented with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

 

 

 



This event is free and open to the public. 

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