The _Import Zurich title focuses mainly on Zurich’s cooperative housing projects. For about fifteen years now a renaissance of urban living is bringing about a renewal of activity among the housing cooperatives. They have adopted ecological standards, they have developed socially compatible forms of denser building, and their large-scale projects have a significant impact on the qualitative development of the city’s neighbourhoods. This is coupled with a new generation of architects who, thanks in part to architecture competitions, have had the opportunity to develop, test out and affirm their own field of research within a very strict and deterministic legal framework.
With contributions by André Bideau, Daniel Kurz, Josep Maria Montaner, and Zaida Muxí
Includes texts in English and German.
Cities Connection Project (CCP) is a project curated by
Nicola Regusci and Xavier Bustos