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by Daniel Korwan (Author)
An insightful and engagingly narrated exploratory work on a pioneer of modern architecture from Switzerland
The
Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davos is a masterpiece of early modernist
architecture by the Swiss architects Pfleghard & Haefeli
(Schatzalp, Davos) and the renowned civil engineer and bridge builder
Robert Maillart.
A new form of architecture was forged here,
full of contradictions and compromises and the result of intense
collaboration between engineer, architect, and client. It stands at the
threshold of modernism, which is largely characterized by the use of
reinforced concrete.
Apart from certain early mentions in
sarchitectural history, very little has been written about this Swiss
precursor of modernist architecture. Drawing on numerous archival
records, Daniel Korwan now provides the first detailed chronology of
this 1909 building, thus expanding the record on the historical
reception of modernism.
- First publication on a Swiss building that prefigured modern architecture
- Unpublished illustrations and plans of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davos
- Insightful and engagingly narrated new contribution to the study of 20th century modernism
Author Biography
Dr. Daniel Korwan, architect and architecture scholar
