Regionalistische Strategien in der Architektur Graubündens

The focus of this book is the study of regionalist tendencies in the architecture of the Grisons, which become apparent in recurring phases from 1900 to the present. Between 1905 and 1914 in the “Heimatschutzarchitektur” of Nicolaus Hartmann, Otto Schäfer and Martin Risch, after 1945 in buildings by the architects Iachen Könz, Bruno Giacometti and Rudolf Olgiati and currently, among others, in the architecture of Peter Zumthor and Gion A. Caminada. Selected buildings by these architects, which exemplify an architecture that is linked to regional building culture, are analyzed and evaluated in their respective social, historical, geographical and cultural contexts. Especially the newer buildings of the internationally known architects Zumthor and Caminada have made Grisons known to the architectural scene in the last three decades. Thus, the region also stands for an architecture that manages to tie in with old traditions without becoming sentimental and drifting into the folkloristic.