PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.25 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 34 color

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/2/2001
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2001

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9783775710107 TRADE
List Price: $16.95 CAD $20.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
NA LA

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Annette Gigon/Mike Guyer: Museum Liner Appenzell

Edited by Edelbert Kob. Essays by Hubertus Adam, Peter Dering,

Zurich-based architect couple Annette Gigon and Mike Guyer are known for creating spaces that inspire and allow for intense contemplation. In the spirit of the duo's previous work--the Kirchner Museum at Davos, the renovation of the Winterthur art museum, and the extension of the Winterthur's Oskar Reinhart collection--their new museum project at Appenzell also exhibits a powerful, idiosyncratic sense of aesthetics. The Liner Museum, dedicated to the Appenzell painters Carl August and Carl Walter Liner--father and son, respectively--presents itself as a sculptural design: the very antithesis of prescriptive postmodern museum architecture that threatens to draw attention away from the exhibits, Gigon and Guyer's edifice displays the imperatives of clear stereometrics and neutral spaces. Here, the architects have succeeded in integrating the new structure into its rural surroundings and vice versa. This book features the Liner Museum, completed in 1998, in a photographic sequence by the gifted architectural photographer Gaston Wicky.