Neue Standards

Ten architects call for a change of perspective and make a case for new standards, which break away from quantitative standard specifications in housing and open up spaces for thought that reflect today’s requirements of living.

Neue Standards. Zehn Thesen zum Wohnen.
Editor: Olaf Bahner und Matthias Böttger
Authors: Anne Kaestle, Matthew Griffin, Tim Heide/Verena von Beckerath, u.a. Language: German 192 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Jovis Verlag, 2016
ISBN 978-3-86859-454-6

Duplex Architects – Rethinking Housing

Our monograph “Duplex Architects – Rethinking Housing” provides an insight into how we work in housing construction. Five projects in Switzerland, richly illustrated with images, plans and visualizations, illustrate our approach to urban design, typology research and materiality.

Duplex Architects – Rethinking housing
Editor: Ludovic Balland, Nele Dechmann
Authors: Hubertus Adam, Marc Angélil, Nele Dechmann, Anne Kaestle, Andreas Ruby, Caspar Schärer, Dan Schürch, Philip Ursprung, Niklas Maak, Günther Vogt
Language: English, German
416 pages, 23 x 30 cm
Park Books, 2021
ISBN D 978-3-03860-229-3
ISBN EN 978-3-03860-230-9

innen nah am fenster tag

«Innen nah am fenster tag» was created as a book accompanying the exhibition and as a script for the film Mit den Augen der Anderen (With Other’s Eyes). The film is a vivid portrait of two buildings on the Hunziker Areal in Zurich, filmed from the perspective of their inhabitants.

innen nah am fenster tag
Editor: Anne Kaestle, Dan Schürch
Graficdesign: Ludovic Balland
Typography Cabinet, Basel
164 pages, 16 x 24 cm
Own publishing house, 2015
ISBN 978-3-86859-454-6

HÄUSER IM DIALOG II

The book is published on the occasion of the completion of the Hunziker Areal project in Zurich of the mehr als wohnen building cooperative. Developed as the basis for the master plan and the overall urban development concept of the work group consisting of Futurafrosch and Duplex Architekten, the publication accompanied the planning process and recorded key data for the participating architectural firms, planners and clients.

Häuser im Dialog. Ein Quartier entsteht.
Authors: Kornelia Gysel, Sabine Frei, Anne Kaestle
124 pages, 16.9 x 23.8 cm
Edition Futurafrosch, 2015, 2nd edition
ISBN 978-3-033-05121-8

Häuser im Dialog I

The book is published on the occasion of the completion of the Hunziker Areal project in Zurich of the mehr als wohnen building cooperative. Developed as the basis for the master plan and the overall urban development concept of the work group consisting of Futurafrosch and Duplex Architekten, the publication accompanied the planning process and recorded key data for the participating architectural firms, planners and clients.

Häuser im Dialog. Ein Quartier entsteht.
Authors: Kornelia Gysel, Sabine Frei, Anne Kaestle
124 pages, 13.7 x 20 cm
Edition Futurafrosch, 2010, 1st edition
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