Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: 10:8 Architekten
Year: 2020
Source: Stadt Zürich

Tags: bridge, smooth_surface, function, consumption, heritage

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: 10:8 Architekten
Year: 2020
Source: Stadt Zürich

Tags: bridge, smooth_surface, function, consumption, heritage, stadtbild

2025-02-13 15:31

Tags: landscape, rural, idealisation
Author, Title:

"We understand a stroll as a sequence, a chain
of pearls, on the basis of which an integrative
act takes place: the creation of a typical
landscape scenery. In its original form, this
act was however based on yet another pattern:
the transition from urban to rural."

Tags: citywalls, fortification, city, class,

Between the old city walls and the new ring of fortifications, elegant residential and commercial buildings for the wealthy publishers and merchants were built. Outside the old city walls, in the baroque city expansion, the “new rich” established their homes, while a clear class division emerged within the city’s quarters.

2025-05-18 16:51

Tags: function, social_control, behaviour, furniture
Author, Title: Mark Pimlott_Interpreting the Public Interior

"The city was transformed into a machine that processed and situated its citizens in a total environment, shaping their experiences, subjecting them to its operations, producing their subjectivities… The streets themselves exemplified this, fully equipped for utility and anonymous engagement… The construction and appearance of this equipment assumed their own, new, representative forms that signalled their roles, which were recognised, and were fitted to prescribed forms of behaviour."

2025-02-07 13:49

Tags: Ensemble protection, stadtbild, urbanism, place
Author, Title: Bernhard Schneider_Stadtbild und Verzweiflung

"Stadtbild war bis gegen 1900 sozusagen ein neutraler Begriff (Camillo Sitte). Das änderte sich, als es darum ging, die Innenstädte von Gross und Mittelstädten in grossem Stil den Geschäfts und Verkehrsbedürfnissen von Cities anzupassen und in erheblichen Teilen zu opfern. Dadurch, dass man versuchte, diese Einbrüche durch - in Fassaden wettbewerben ermittelte - ortstypische Bauten zu kaschieren, geriet der Begriff ins Zwielicht, verlor seine Unschuld und bald danach auch seine Suggestivkraft. Als es nach 1970 darum ging, denkmalpflegerische Anliegen in die Stadtplanung und vor allem in die Alltstadtsanierung einzubringen, musste ein neues Instrumentarium und Vokabular entwickelt werden, das - anders als der zu vage Bildbegriff - sowohl wissenschaftlichen als auch rechtlichen Anforderungen gerecht wurde. Begriffe wie Stadtdenkmal und Ensemble machten Karriere"

2025-05-18 17:20

Tags: care, boundary, disorientation, patrimoine
Author, Title: Bruno Latour_Down to Earth

"The most basic right of all is to feel safe and protected, especially at a moment when the old protections are disappearing. This is the meaning of the history that remains to be discovered: how can we reweave edges, envelopes, protections; how can we find new footing?"

2025-02-06 11:49

Tags: heritage, protection, consumption, politics, class
Author, Title: Rem Koolhaas_Preservation is Overtaking Us

"The need for supplementation, that is to say for preservation, is enmeshed with the origin of any architectural project aspiring to cultural relevance. This is the crux and the urgency of his retreat into preservation: a search to comprehend the practice of architectural supplementation in order to sustain cultural significance."

2025-05-18 16:38

Tags: neglect, moral, authority
Author, Title: Beatriz Colomina - Mark Wigley_Are We Human

"The world has developed an ability to watch everything yet do nothing. This lack of action is also designed. Neglect has been shaped... Good design is meant to be contagiously virtuous... yet the ambition to social reform embedded in each modest project hides complications, contradictions, and barely suppressed violence that comes with any such declarations of a moral high ground."

Title: Die letzten Kratzhäuser
Author: Adolf Moser
Year: 1891
Source:

Tags: social_control, displacement, fleeting, townscape, fashion, speculation, smooth_surface

Title: Freie Limmat, freie Sicht
Author: Aktionskomitee Freie Limmat
Year: 1951
Source: NZZ

Tags: panorama, view, industrialisation, displacement, class, historic_city_center, limmat

Title: Freie Limmat freie Sicht
Author: Aktionskomittee Freie Limmat
Year: 1950
Source: BAZ

Tags: nature, commodification, view, panorama, value, consumption

Title: The Production of Heritage
Author: Alan Chandler, Michaela Pace
Year: 2020
Source: ETH Bibliothek

Tags: heritage, preservation

Title: Der Vergleich
Author: Albert Heinrich Steiner
Year: 1950
Source: NZZ

Tags: view, politics, discourse, city_planning, limmat

Title: Sanierungsprojekt Block 16
Author: Albert Heinrich Steiner
Year: 1948
Source: Geplante Altstadt

Tags: preservation, historic_city_center, city_planning, image, ensemble, coherence

Title: Börsen Saal
Author: Albert Müller
Year: 1876
Source:

Tags: public, dialectical, authenticity

Title: Das neue Trojanische Ross
Author: Albert Welti
Year: 1905
Source:

Tags: mask, education, patrimoine, global, solidification

Title: Attunement: Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science
Author: Alberto Perez-Gomez
Year:
Source:

Tags: architecture, power

Title: The City is not a Post-Card
Author: Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Year: 2007
Source:

Tags: place, city, tourist, capitalism

Title: Extended Elevation of the Studiolo
Author: Alderete and Castellanos
Year: 2021
Source: Routledge

Tags: interior, fold, domestic, public

Title: Die Stadt als Text
Author: Alessandro Carlini, Bernhard Schneider
Year: 1976
Source: ETH Bibliothek, Book "Konzept 2"

Tags: stadtbild, city, image, representation

Title: Mirabilia Urbis Romae
Author: Alessandro Strozzi
Year: 1474
Source: Wikipedia

Tags: guide, pilgrim, tourist, monument, patrimoine

Title: Stüssihofstatt
Author: Alfred Nüsseler
Year: 1938
Source:

Tags: restoration, moral, change, backdrop

Title: Bürobauten des Eidgenössischen Kriegs-Industrie und Arbeitsamts
Author: Alfred Roth
Year: 1943
Source:

Tags: interchangeability, flexibility, function, periphery

2025-02-07 14:52

Tags: heimat, aesthetic, place, alienation
Author, Title: Dana Bönisch - Jil Runia - Hanna Zehschnetzler_Heimat revisited

"Their counterpart may no longer be the periphery; it is, instead, a desire for the vernacular, a new imagination of place. Such a view is borne out by historical chronology. The late nineteenth century, heyday of nation-state building and industrialization, saw a proliferation of Vernacular revivals.
It is clear, then, that the desire for Heimat emerges within the parameters of modernism. Architectural historians have often portrayed the vernacular revival around 1900 as a "springboard" for the development of modernism proper. Even traditional scholars such as Nicholas Pevsner acknowledged that the English and American Arts and Crafts movements in particular helped wipe away the aesthetic "clutter'' of historicist revival styles of the nineteenth century, and thus prepared the ground for modern functionalism. While the truth of such trajectories is beyond question, this volume proposes that they contain only a partial truth."

Title: Das farbige Zürich
Author: Alla Vronskaya
Year: 2017
Source:

Tags: nostalgia, aesthetic, public, moral

Title: Wie kommt die Stadt ins Bild?
Author: Andreas Beyer
Year: 2008
Source:

Tags: stadtbild, heritage, preservation

Title: Junggesellenhäuser
Author: Annick Ramp
Year: 2024
Source: NZZ

Tags: periphery, class, devaluation

Tags: switzerland, city, landmark, identity, heritage

The Act of Mediation in 1803 was a pivotal moment in Swiss history, abolishing the feudal system and transforming land into a tradable commodity. This shift fundamentally changed land ownership and usage, inviting speculation and development that altered the social and economic fabric of the region.

As a result, the city—still often encircled by its ancient walls and characterized by streets designed for communal gathering rather than traffic—appeared increasingly powerless in the face of these rapid changes. It is therefore no surprise that the founding year of the “Antiquarische Gesellschaft Zürich” in 1832 coincided with the decision to demolish the city fortifications, marking a significant loss of a tangible symbol of the city’s political identity.

The removal of these physical boundaries necessitated new reference points to navigate the city’s expansion into uncharted territory. This transformation prompted a re-evaluation of urban identity and heritage, as the city sought to establish frameworks for understanding itself amidst modernization.

Title: Grossmünster
Author: Antiquarische Gesellschaft
Year: 1832
Source:

Tags: patrimoine, class

Title: Grossmünster Inventarisation
Author: Antiquarische Gesellschaft
Year: 1832
Source:

Tags: aesthetic, ideology, class

Title: Grossmünster Kreuzgang
Author: Antiquarische Gesellschaft
Year: 1832
Source:

Tags: institution, representation, monument

Title: Grossmünster
Author: Antiquarische Gesellschat
Year: 1832
Source:

Tags: monument, image, inventory, politics

Title: Schweizerischer Bund für Naturschutz
Author: Anton Christoffel
Year: 1908
Source:

Tags: nature, consumption, ensemble

Title: Der Wandel archäologischer Denkmäler
Author: Archäologische Sammlung UZH
Year: 1995
Source: Archiv des Museums für Gestaltung

Tags: preservation, capitalism, global, politics, legislation, class

2025-02-07 10:52

Tags: aesthetic, heimat, [[03_tags/public|03_tags/public]], education, class
Author, Title: Martin Viehhauser_Reformierung des Menschen durch Stadtraumgestaltung

"Die ästhetischen Grundzüge des Heimatstils wurden in den publizistischen Kanälen offensiv kommun ziert. Dazu zählten vor allem das publikationsorgan der SVH mit dem Titel Heimatschutz, ferner die Zeitschriften Die Schweizerische Baukunst, die zwischen 1909 und 1914 das Publikationsorgan des BSA war, und die Zeitschrift Das Werk, die ab 1914 vom SWB und BSA herausgegeben wurde."

Title: Denkmalpflege Theorie
Author: Archithese 11
Year: 1974
Source: e-periodica

Tags: heritage, preservation, protection

Title: Heim und Heimat
Author: Archithese
Year: 1979
Source:

Tags: heimatschutz, denkmalpflege, heimat

Title: Plan der Stadt Zürich
Author: Arnold Bürkli
Year: 1870
Source:

Tags: representation, class, nature

2025-02-07 11:58

Tags: material_culture, popular_memory, history, idealisation
Author, Title: Philip Ursprung_Unknown

"Auf die Frage, welches Material in Zürich dominiert, möchte Ich antworten. Asphalt. Asphalt überzieht den grössten Teil des Bodens. Er ist günstig, elastisch, vielseitg verwendbar - für Fussgänger wie für Autos. Er lässt sich leicht putzen. Er dämpft, ja er schluckt die Geräusche. Wasser und Schmutz scheint von ihm abzuperlen wie von einer Teflon Schicht. Er ist aber auch hermetisch und verdeckt ales, was unter ihm liegt mit einer viskosen, undurchdringlichen, anpassungsfähigen Folie. Asphalt ist emblematisch für Verdrängung und Opportunismus, für zwei typische Eigenschaften dieser Stadt also, wenn man so will. Wenn sich tatschlich einmal ein Riss in der Asphaltdecke zeigt, oder eine Baumwurzel die Asphaltdecke hebt, dann ist das Tiefbaudepartement umgehend zur Stelle und versiegelt die Lücke. Asphalt würde zwar schön altern, er würde ausbleichen wie eine Fotografie, an den Rändern zerkrümeln, aber soweit lässt es die Stadt nicht kommen. Alle zehn bis fünfzehn Jahre wird der Belag erneuert und die Spuren der Zeit werden wieder gelöscht."

2025-02-05 16:26

Tags: ethic, class, legislation, archive, discourse
Author, Title: Laurajane Smith_Uses of Heritage

"These principles have also become embedded in the Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments of 1931, and the International Charter for the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites (Venice Charter) of 1964, the first of a range of ICOMOS charters that continue to frame and define the debates about conservation and heritage management practices. European ideas about conservation, and the nature and meaning of monuments, have become internationally naturalized, so that these principles have become global ‘common sense’. Denis Byrne (1991) has argued, more critically, that they have become hegemonic and that the ‘conservation ethic’ has been imposed on non-Western nations."

Tags: monument, heritage, conservation, power, class

The Athens Charter of 1931 marked a defining moment in the understanding of heritage and monument conservation on an international level. As it unfolded, the charter emphasized that monuments were not mere remnants of the past but living symbols enmeshed in the modern world. These structures—whether houses, theaters, or arches—survived through a fusion of ancient craftsmanship and modern materials like metal, concrete, and asphalt, a reality that required acknowledgment. Their significance deepened with each political or cultural event, whether a leader’s visit or a state performance, signaling that these sites were more than just historical—they had become instruments in the politics of heritage and power.

Despite its focus on international cooperation, the Athens Charter was not without its limitations. The notion that states were “wardens of civilization” revealed a Eurocentric bias. The charter’s discussions on conservation often reflected colonial attitudes, where non-European monuments were framed in a way that excluded local populations from having agency over their own heritage.

These already mentioned principles became embedded in the Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments of 1933, the first of a range of ICOMOS charters that continue to frame and define the debates about conservation and heritage management practices. European ideas about conservation, and the nature and meaning of monuments, have become internationally naturalized, so that these principles have become global ‘common sense’.

The seven points of the manifesto are:

to establish organizations for restoration advice.
to ensure projects are reviewed with knowledgeable criticism.
to establish national legislation to preserve historic sites.
to rebury excavations which were not to be restored.
to allow the use of modern techniques and materials in restoration work.
to place historical sites under custodial protection.
to protect the area surrounding historic sites.

Title: Vorschlag für Bemalung des Münsterhofs
Author: Augusto Giacometti
Year: 1930
Source:

Tags: nostalgia, change, subsistence, aesthetic, stadtbild

Tags: infrastructure, industrialisation, power

Riesbach and the area around Aussersihl have the highest density of factory workplaces. For the time being, Aussersihl remains a farming and manufacturing area for the time being, but is located in the centre of important industrial areas and therefore became a place of residence for workers.

2025-05-18 17:22

Tags: authenticity, fiction, restoration
Author, Title: Jorge Silvetti_The Beauty of Shadows

"The nineteenth century’s obsession with authenticity ironically produced a series of fictions that replaced the very past they aimed to preserve."

Title: Abriss und Neubau
Author: Authors
Year: 2024
Source:

Tags: decay, modernity, consumption

Title: Bauprofile in Altstetten
Author: Authors
Year: 2024
Source:

Tags: periphery, demolition, devaluation

Title: Entlastungsstollen Thalwil
Author: AWEL
Year: 2024
Source: AWEL

Tags: landscape, nature, preservation, periphery, devaluation

Title: Walter Benjamin and Kitsch Politics in the Phantasmagorical Age
Author: Aysergül Ergül
Year: 2016
Source:

Tags: kitsch

Title: Karikatur der helvetischen Republik nach der Übernahme von Bern
Author: Balthasar Anton Dunker
Year: 1798
Source:

Tags: patrimoine modernity, museum

Title: An der Fluchgasse
Author: Barbara Franzen, Andreas Z'graggen
Year: 2015
Source: ETH Baubibliothek

Tags: historic_city_center, zurich, market, trade

Title: Die Baustelle des Hauptbahnhof Zürichs
Author: Baugeschichtliches Archiv
Year: 1867
Source:

Tags: expansion, representation, switzerland, local

Title: Von der Gemüsebrücke zur Rathausbrücke
Author: Baugeschichtliches Archiv
Year: 1905
Source:

Tags: intangible, solidification

Title: Sihlhölzli
Author: Baugeschichtliches Archiv
Year: 1917
Source:

Tags: consumption, subsistence, moral

Title: Zürich
Author: Baugeschichtliches Archiv
Year: 1894
Source:

Tags: cartography, industrialisation, identity

Title: Die Stadterweiterungsprojekte des Baukollegiums
Author: Baukollegium der Stadt Zürich
Year: 1861
Source:

Tags: [[03_tags/public|03_tags/public]], global, stage, politics

Title: Gemüsebrücke Construction Site
Author: BAZ
Year: 1972
Source: BAZ

Tags: flexibility, memory, construction, limmat

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: BAZ
Year: 1976
Source: BAZ

Tags: market, socialism, public

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: BAZ
Year: 1976
Source: BAZ

Tags: stadtbild, displacement, historic_city_center

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: BAZ
Year: 1976
Source: BAZ

Tags: stadtbild, public, ensemble, production, value

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: BAZ
Year: 1976
Source: BAZ

Tags: politics, stadtbild, townscape, disturbance

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: BAZ
Year: 1975
Source: BAZ

Tags: stadtbild, panorama, disturbance, modernity, defensibility

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: BAZ
Year: 1974
Source: BAZ

Tags: stadtbild, stage, disturbance, socialism, ideology, public

Title: Quartierzentrum Lindenplatz
Author: BAZ
Year: 1952
Source: BAZ

Tags: square, public, periphery, city_planning

Title: Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Author: BAZ
Year: 1990
Source: BAZ

Tags: demolition, devaluation, subjectivity, consumption

Title: Are We Human?
Author: Beatriz Colomina - Mark Wigley
Year: 2016
Source:

Tags: design, archaeology, subjectivity

Title: Bildtafel der Ausstellung Deine Wohnung, dein Nachbar, deine Heimat
Author: Bebauungsbüro
Year: 1948
Source: Geplante Altstadt

Tags: politics, discourse, image, mediation, education

Title: Vom Raritäten Kabinett zur propriété nationale
Author: Benjamin Gygax
Year: 1998
Source:

Tags: transformation, collector, heritage, archive

Title: Stadtbild
Author: Bernd Roeck
Year: 2013
Source:

Tags: stadtbild

Title: Stadtbild und Verzweiflung
Author: Bernhard Schneider
Year: 1976
Source:

Tags:

Title: Wohnstatistiken und Städtebilder
Author: Bernoulli
Year: 1914
Source:

Tags: moral, hygiene, growth

Title: Lesen eröffnet die Augen
Author: Bodensee Zeitung
Year: 1997
Source:

Tags: education, nostalgia, landmark

Title: Gemüsebrücke
Author: Böhme Woldemar
Year: 1900
Source: BAZ

Tags: market, consumption, growth, public

Title: Zur Erinnerung an die Eröffnung des Kunsthauses in Zürich
Author: Boscovits
Year: 1910
Source: Stadtarchiv

Tags: model, power, production

Title: Der Planet rebelliert
Author: Bruno Latour
Year: 2019
Source:

Tags: heimat, production, identity

Title: Down to Earth
Author: Bruno Latour
Year: 2018
Source:

Tags: ecology, territory, infrastructure

Title: On a Possible Triangulation of Some Present Political Positions
Author: Bruno Latour
Year: 2018
Source:

Tags: alienation, climate, heimat, global

Title: Planetarium
Author: Bruno Latour
Year: 2018

Tags: nature, culture, nostalgia, subsistence, heimat

Title: Where Are the Missing Masses
Author: Bruno Latour
Year: 1992
Source:

Tags: infrastructure, social_control, mundane

Tags: image historic_city_center, representation, zurich, ensemble, stadtbild

The preservationist motivations began to gain prominence, especially in the years leading up to World War II. While many early 20th-century projects proposed a near-total overhaul of the Old Town, by the 1930s, a shift in urban policy began to emerge, focusing on the aesthetic and historical value of the existing cityscape. This shift was influenced by a growing cultural movement that valued the symbolic and visual continuity of the city’s identity, rather than the preservation of its physical substance. Instead of protecting entire buildings or quarters, the focus was on maintaining the “image” or “character” of the Old Town. This approach often led to the selective demolition of old structures, replacing them with new buildings designed to blend in with their historical surroundings, thus creating a semblance of authenticity while accommodating modern needs.

This selective preservation was not driven purely by an interest in safeguarding heritage but was also a reaction to changing public sentiment and political pressures. The Old Town was increasingly seen as a key element of Zurich’s cultural and tourist identity, and there was growing recognition of the need to retain a connection to the past, albeit in a curated and controlled way. This led to the creation of “altstadtkonforme” new buildings that evoked traditional architectural styles without necessarily preserving the original structures or materials. Such projects aimed to balance the city’s modern functional needs with a vision of historical continuity.

The establishment of the “Büro für Altstadtsanierung” in 1946, under city architect Albert Heinrich Steiner, institutionalized this hybrid approach. Although the office sought to preserve the overall “Stadtbild” (cityscape), it continued to endorse significant alterations, demonstrating how the preservation of the “image” of the Old Town became a form of managed change. These projects were more about crafting a historically resonant urban narrative than about safeguarding the architectural integrity of the past.

Title: Bauordnung für die Altstadt
Author: Büro für Altstadtsanierung
Year: 1939
Source:

Tags: moral, speculation, hygiene

Title: Richtprojekt für die Altstadtsanierung
Author: Büro für Altstadtsanierung
Year: 1940
Source:

Tags: value, picturesque, image, displacement

Title: Sanierungsplan
Author: Büro für Altstadtsanierung
Year: 1935
Source:

Tags: authenticity, nostalgia, displacement, stadtbild, speculation, aesthetic

Title: Der Städtebau
Author: Camillo Sitte
Year: 1904
Source:

Tags: subsistence, production, veil, strategy

Title: Der Städtebau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen
Author: Camillo Sitte
Year: 1889
Source:

Tags: production, subsistence, moral, stadtgestalt

2025-02-13 15:19

Tags: society, preservation, picturesque
Author, Title: Wolfgang Scheppe_Die Legislative Erfindung des Stadtbildes

"Es war also nicht ohne Grund zunächst die vom Kohlestaub dunkel gewordenen Strasse- und Schauseiten, denen die Bemühungen um eine Aufwertung galten. Was das Viertel so wertvoll machte, war seine Bildhaftigkeit, das Pittoreske - und nicht die in ihm lebende Subkultur, zu deren letztem Reservat es geworden war. Der Marais figurierte als einzig verbliebene Bastion eben jener Verknüpfung von Architektur und Lebensform, die das Projekt des Präfekten Haussmann - eine polizeiliche Rationalität der Disziplinierung und Überwachung ästhetisch artikulierend unter Napoleon im angrenzenden Stadtgebiet ausgelöscht hatte."

Title: The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
Author: Caravaggio
Year: 1602
Source: Wikipedia

Tags: education, heritage, crack

Title: Oeschinensee bei Kantierte im Morgenzwielicht
Author: Cardinaux Maler
Year: 1905
Source: Heimatschutz Zeitschrift

Tags: image, city, veil, landscape, landmark

Title: Die Zeit beginnt
Author: Carl Rorich
Year: 1884
Source:

Tags: ritual, fortification, monument, global

Title: The Chimera Principle
Author: Carlo Severi
Year: 2015
Source:

Tags: representation, ritual, intangible

Title: Modern Housing
Author: Catherine Baur
Year: 1935

Tags: usability, threshold, floor, plateau

Title: Zur Kritik der Stadtentwicklung
Author: Christian Schmid
Year: 1989
Source:

Tags:

Title: Zürich bei niedrigem Wasserstand
Author: Christoph Silbereysen
Year: 1576

Tags: water¨, zurich, commodification

Title: Illustration
Author: Christoph Silberysen
Year: 1560
Source: unknown

Tags: zurich , stadtbild, medieval

Title: Charta von Athen
Author: CIAM
Year: 1933
Source:

Tags: universal, patrimoine, tourist, speculation, value

Title: The Heart of the City
Author: CIAM
Year: 1952

Tags: surface, historic_city_center, artificial, image, devaluation

2025-05-18 16:44

Tags: territory, social_control, city_planning
Author, Title: Mark Pimlott_Interpreting the Public Interior

"The idea of the city or its territory... was supposed to impose an order upon it and all those who lived or would live there. The idea was not merely geometric, but about forms of behaviour, forms of life, forms of obedience imposed upon its subjects. The environment as thought of would be to create subjects, and subjectivities."

2025-03-17 21:18

Tags: city, city_planning, periphery
Author, Title: Hans-Peter Baertschi_Industrialisierung, Eisenbahnschlachten und Mietskasernenbau

“Parallel zur Vergrösserung der Altstadt durch Stadterweiterungen wachsen die benachbarten Orte. Dabei unterscheidet sich die bauliche Entwicklung im Stadtgemeindegebiet und in den verschiedenen Aussen- und Ausgemeinden wesentlich. Die bereits in der ummauerten Stadt bestehende Klassentrennung entwickelt sich zu einer grossräumigen Funktions- und Klassentrennung zwischen den verschiedenen Gemeinden, die zur Agglomeration zusammenwachsen."

2025-02-15 11:02

Tags: stadtbild, city, historic_city_center, monument, image, ensemble
Author, Title: Bernd Roeck_Stadtbild

“Stadtbild war bis gegen 1900 sozusagen ein neutraler Begriff. Das änderte sich, als es darum ging, die Innenstädte von Gross und Mittelstädten in grossem Stil den Geschäfts und Verkehrsbedürfnissen von Cities anzupassen und in erheblichen Teilen zu opfern. Dadurch, dass man versuchte, diese Einbrüche durch - in Fassaden wettbewerben ermittelte - ortstypische Bauten zu kaschieren, geriet der Begriff ins Zwielicht, verlor seine Unschuld und bald danach auch seine Suggestivkraft. Als es nach 1970 darum ging, denkmalpflegerische Anliegen in die Stadtplanung und vor allem in die Alltstadtsanierung einzubringen, musste ein neues Instrumentarium und Vokabular entwickelt werden, das - anders als der zu vage Bildbegriff - sowohl wissenschaftlichen als auch rechtlichen Anforderungen gerecht wurde. Begriffe wie Stadtdenkmal und Ensemble machten Karriere.”

Tags: city, class

In 1218, the ruling noble family in Zurich died out, marking a turning point for the city. Zurich received city rights, and the citizens took control, establishing their own council, laws, and seal. This marked the beginning of Zurich’s city council. The Abbess of Fraumünster, however, retained dominance over Zurich under King Friedrich II, with the most important right at the time: the right to mint coins.

Title: Detail of the Map for Frankfurt
Author: Civil Affairs Handbook Germany
Year: 1944
Source: Designs of Destruction

Tags: demolition, devaluation, preservation, politics, class, mediation

2025-02-05 16:47

Tags: class, monument, mundane, idealisation
Author, Title: Laurajane Smith_Uses of Heritage

"The idea of ‘preservation’ is interesting here, as the nineteenth century was a significant period of social change. The European conservation movement and the American preservation movement developed in the context of this change, and what is revealing is what it was that early conservationists and preservations sought to ‘save’ in this context. Almost inevitably it is the grand and great and ‘good’ that were chosen, to ‘remind’ the public about the values and sensibilities that should be saved or preserved as representative of patriotic American and European national identities. Even when it is the ‘bad’ that is being preserved, it is very often the exceptionally ‘tragic’ event that is commemorated, rather than unpleasantness that is more mundane or reflective of the general inequalities of human experiences. The very idea of monumentality – drawing on a sense of the inevitability and desirability of inheritance, of grand scale and of aesthetic taste – derives ultimately from ruling and upper middle class experience. "

2025-03-09 15:31

Tags: ecology, stadtbild, tourist
Author, Title: Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs_The Conscious Stream

"The river was the lifeline of the city for milennia. Over time, the river endured a multitude of tasks and functions; it was a means of transport, energy supplier, drainage system and nutrition provider. But then immense wealth flowed into the city and the river was forgotten, walled up, channelled, tamed, drained and degraded to a decoration. For how soothingly the stream keeps flowing, day in and day out, like money, and the water so clear, so pure, that one wanted to drink it!"

2025-05-18 16:49

Tags: backdrop, origin, culture, territory
Author, Title: Mark Pimlott_Interpreting the Public Interior

"The public interior... imagined as a hinterland that had been, along with its indigenous population, tamed or conquered... where one might depend on a consistent manifestation of normative social values... The public interior, therefore, was both a manifestation and extension of a condition that was, in essence, ideological, which proposed itself as natural; a settler ideology that assumed indigeneity, having eliminated the other."

Title: Models Of Holy Sepulchre
Author: Conrad Schick
Year: 1862
Source:

Tags: model, power, labour, document

2025-02-13 15:10

Tags: preservation, ethic, modernity
Author, Title: John Ruskin_The Seven Lamps of Architecture

"It is again no question of expediency or feeling whether we shall
preserve the buildings of past time or not. We have no right whatever
to touch them. They are not ours. They belong partly to those
who built them, and partly to all generations of mankind who are to
follow us."

2025-02-06 11:47

Tags: supplementation, authenticity,
Author, Title: Rem Koolhaas_Preservation is Overtaking Us

" A new design that is formally indistinguishable from its host context is the ultimate contextualist gesture, one in which the new does not just come in the shape of the old but rather arrives as a subtle and imperceptible supplement to it. OMA identified those elements of the old building that were deficient, such as the entrance and the view window, and supplemented them so that they would be able to withstand what was required of them."

Title: The disciplinary City
Author: Corinne Fournier
Year: 2005
Source:

Tags: city, city_planning, class, education

2025-02-06 11:39

Tags: nostalgia future, heimat
Author, Title: Ryan Roark_The Afterlife of Dying Buildings

"Vital intervention is also a potentially powerful weapon against that immoral alternative, restoration. Ruskin’s moral railings against the dishonesty of restoration run the risk of seeming quaint today, especially given the widespread contemporary distaste for nostalgia, which is often considered to be anti-progress. Early twenty-first-century architectural theorist and historian Svetlana Boym tackled this conception of nostalgia in The Future of Nostalgia(2001). Boym distinguished between two types of nostalgia, restorative nostalgia, which seeks a return to a past state of glory, and reflective nostalgia, a creative and progressive impulse shared across humanity, a longing prompted by the fundamental unknowability of the past. She wrote: ‘Creative or reflective nostalgia reveals the fantasies of the age, and it is in those fantasies and potentialities that the future is born. One is nostalgic not for the past the way it was, but for the past the way it could have been. It is this past perfect that one strives to realize in the future’.30 It must be noted that Ruskin himself did not always avoid restorative nostalgia and sometimes actively yearned for the past. The elision between reflective and restorative nostalgia is in fact easy to make, and it is perhaps due to the difficulty of maintaining this distinction that many twentieth-century architects shied away altogether from nostalgia and charges of historicism."

Title: Heimat revisited
Author: Dana Bönisch - Jil Runia - Hanna Zehschnetzler
Year: 2020
Source:

Tags: heimat, modernity

Title: Die Disziplinierung der Stadt
Author: Daniel Kurz
Year: 2022
Source: ETH Baubibliothek

Tags: education, zurich

Title: Enge und Aussersihl
Author: Daniel Kurz
Year: 2022
Source: Die Disziplinierung der Stadt

Tags: periphery, devaluation, power, neglect

Title: On Growth And Form
Author: Darcy Wentworth Thompson
Year: 1917

Tags: topology, glitch, transformation, restoration, anomaly

Title: Paris, Capital of Modernity
Author: David Harvey
Year: 2003
Source:

Tags: manet, modernity, urbanism, [[03_tags/public|03_tags/public]]

Title: Rebel Cities
Author: David Harvey
Year: 2012
Source:

Tags: city, authority, class

Title: The History of Heritage
Author: David Harvey
Year: 2008
Source:

Tags: popular_memory, politics, class

Title: Sihl Hochwasser
Author: David Redinger
Year: 1731
Source: unknown

Tags: sihl, limmat, risk, water, landscape

Title: Yellowstone
Author: David Rumsey
Year: 1904
Source:

Tags: protection, landscape, subsistence, seperation, consumption, education

Tags: vandalism, revolution, representation, monument, heritage

In a certain way, it is not surprising that preservation is related to revolution, because in a revolution, you have to decide what to destroy and what to keep. The first act of laws for the safeguarding of monuments was established two years after the French Revolution, while simultaneously introducing the term “vandalism.” In the context of heritage discourse, vandalism is not merely an act of destruction but often a deliberate statement that reflects political, social, or cultural ideologies.

During the French Revolution, acts of vandalism targeted symbols of feudalism and monarchy as part of a broader rejection of the ancien régime. The destruction of monuments associated with royal power and the Church was seen as a way to reject the past and create a new egalitarian culture. In this sense, vandalism was not random but rather an intentional and symbolic act aimed at erasing the remnants of a hierarchical society.

The destruction of monuments therefore prompted the creation of protective measures to safeguard national heritage. For example, Grégoire, a revolutionary figure, advocated against vandalism and sought to protect cultural artefacts and monuments from destruction. This classification of what is worthy of protection from inevitable destruction leads to the creation of an alibi for the destruction of artefacts deemed unworthy. This type of classification has far-reaching consequences to this day, as it continues to hinder the preservation of neighborhoods of “common people”.

The explosion of conservation discourse is therefore not to be seen as an antidote but as something deeply embedded in humanity’s capacity for destruction.

Tags: preservation, inventory, discourse, [[03_tags/public|03_tags/public]], legislation, conservation, heritage, landscape

The “Denkmalpflege” is a cantonal institution that structures its tasks into four areas of work: Inventory, consulting, documentation and public relations. This institution is most often involved in building projects, as expert opinions are often required before a planning application can be submitted. The inventory refers to entire buildings or parts of buildings that are to be protected, listing buildings that are important witnesses to past eras due to their historical significance. These are referred to as monuments. Their long-term preservation is in the public interest. The compilation and regular updating of the inventory are laid down as a legal mandate in the Planning and Building Act.

The Planning and Building Act distinguishes between monuments of importance to the municipality (communal) and monuments of importance to the canton (supra-communal). For this reason, both the municipalities and the canton keep inventories. The building authority of the respective municipality is responsible for municipal monuments, while the cantonal monument preservation office is responsible for supra-municipal monuments.

§ 6 KNHV
Die Inventare enthalten wenigstens folgende Angaben:
1. knappe Umschreibung und Wertung des Objektes
2. bestehende Schutzmassnahmen
3.Schutzzweck.
§ 7 KNHV
Für folgende Sachgebiete werden je separate Inventare erstellt:
3. Objekte des Naturschutzes
4. Objekte des Landschaftsschutzes
5. Objekte des Denkmalschutzes
6. Objekte der Archäologie
7. Objekte des Ortsbildschutzes
§ 204 PBG
8. Staat, Gemeinden sowie jene Körperschaften, Stiftungen und selbstständigen Anstalten des öffen tlichen und des privaten Rechts, die öffentliche Aufgaben erfüllen, haben in ihrer Tätigkeit dafür zu sorgen, dass Schutzobjekte geschont und, wo das öffentliche Interesse an diesen überwiegt, ung- eschmälert erhalten bleiben.
§ 213 PBG
9. Jeder Grundeigentümer ist jederzeit berechtigt, vom Gemeinwesen einen Entscheid über die Schutzwürdigkeit seines Grundstücks und über den Umfang allfälliger Schutzmassnahmen zu ver langen, wenn er ein aktuelles Interesse glaubhaft macht.
§ 211 PBG
10. Der Gemeinderat trifft die Schutzmassnahmen für Objekte von kommunaler Bedeutung.
§ 203 PBG
11. Schutzobjekte sind:
Ortskerne, Quartiere, Strassen und Plätze, Gebäudegruppen, Gebäude und Teile sowie Zugehör von solchen, die als wichtige Zeugen einer politischen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen oder baukünstleri- schen Epoche erhaltenswürdig sind oder die Landschaften oder Siedlungen wesentlich mitprägen, samt der für ihre Wirkung wesentlichen Umgebung;
[…] wertvolle Park- und Gartenanlagen, Bäume, Baumbestände, Feldgehölze und Hecken; […]
Die Leitsätze zur Denkmalpflege in der Schweiz (Zürich 2007, S. 13), halten dazu fest:
12. «Der Mensch hat ein Grundbedürfnis nach Erinnerung. Sie stützt sich wesentlich auf Orte und Objekte.»
13. «Denkmäler sind ortsgebundene Objekte, die geschichtlichen Zeugniswert haben. Denkmäler können Zeugnisse jeglichen menschlichen Wirkens sein, historischer Ereignisse und Entwicklungen, künstlerischer Leistungen, sozialer Einrichtungen, technischer Errungenschaften.»
14. «Denkmäler sind bestimmt durch ihre überlieferte Materie; diese macht die Authentizität der Denkmäler aus.»

2025-05-18 16:36

Tags: aesthetic, smooth_surface, memory
Author, Title: Beatriz Colomina - Mark Wigley_Are We Human

"Good design is an anesthetic. The smooth surfaces of modern design eliminate friction, removing bodily and psychological sensation... The history of modern anesthetics uncannily parallels that of modern design... Smooth white surfaces restore the ‘calm’ that preceded the brutality of... modern industry. The shock of war, the shock of the machine, the shock of the metropolis have in common anesthesia, the temporary removal of feeling... Feeling was no longer possible. Humans were anesthetized. This poverty of experience finds its parallel in modern architecture, in glass-and-steel buildings on whose smooth surfaces the inhabitant cannot leave any traces, any memory."

2025-02-13 15:47

Tags: preservation, class, design, labour
Author, Title: Jorge Otero-Pailos_Experimental Preservation

"To teach care for the planetary commons does indeed require a new pedagogy. To state the obvious, architects are taught to care for what their clients pay for, as well as what they themselves are legally responsible for — which are the materials to be assembled into a building on a discrete plot of land. Architects are not paid to care, or insured to take responsibility for, anything outside the property line"

2025-05-18 16:37

Tags: design, authority, [[visibility|visibility]], class
Author, Title: Beatriz Colomina - Mark Wigley_Are We Human

"Design routinely constructs radical inequalities... The spaces in which people and resources are exploited have been designed. They are the result of systematic decisions over centuries, sustained by the latest technological and administrative systems. Inequalities are being crafted in everything we see, don’t see, or don’t want to see."

2025-02-05 16:51

Tags: renovation, historic_city_center, zurich,
Author, Title: Max Frisch_Cum Grano Salis

"Die Stadt unsrer Vorfahren schlichterdings niederzureissen, um Platz zu haben für unsere eigene Stadt, wäre verrückt; es gäbe einen Sturm der Empörung. In der Tat machen wir das Verrücktere: wir verpfuschen die Stadt unserer Vorfahren, ohne dafür einen neue zu bauen."

2025-02-07 13:45

Tags: stadtbild, denkmalpflege, aesthetic
Author, Title: Bernhard Schneider_Stadtbild und Verzweiflung

"Denn wo das Stadtbild als übergreifende Informationsstruktur interpretiert wird, entsteht zwischen dem Einzelobjekt und dem Stadtganzen ein dialektisches Verhältnis, in welchem dem einzelnen Gebäude sein Stellenwert quantitativ und - wie es sich zeigen wird - damit auch qualitativ zugemessen werden kann. Aus heutiger Sicht mag der Versuch, ästhetische Wahrnehmung und Wirkung messbar und damit beweisbar zu machen, noch dazu in einer Zeit, in der die gesellschaftliche Relevanz im Zentrum jeder wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung stand, kurios erscheinen. Er entsprang jedoch dem ernsten Anliegen, auf der Ebene der Stadtbildpflege, die nicht mit dem Landesamt, sondern der Stadt oblag, denkmalpflegerische Ziele wissenschaftlich abzustützen - und blieb natürlich folgenlos.
Nicht gesagt wird, dass unter dem Vorwand, ein Vertrautes Bild zu erhalten, eben dieses zerstört wird - immer mit dem Ziel der Vergrösserung der Geschäftsflächen und der Rendite. "

2025-02-13 16:38

Tags: stadtbild, historic_city_center, urbanism, heimat
Author, Title: Melchior Fischli_Geplante Altstadt

"Dies gilt etwa für das Projekt, das Karl Moser 1933 erarbeitete. Als Professor an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) und dann als Vorsitzender der Congrès internationaux pour l'architecture moderne (CIAM) zu einem Gründervater der modernen Architektur in der Schweiz und zur Bezugsfigur für die junge Generation unter den hiesigen Architekten geworden, legte Moser Zeichnungen, Pläne und Fotomontagen vor, welche an der Stelle der Zürcher Altstadt eine Zeilenbebauung mit modernen Geschäftshäusern zeigen. Die utopischen Vorschläge, die Le Corbusier einige Jahre zuvor an Paris vorgeführt hatte, fanden damit ihren Reflex an der Limmat. Mosers Projekt aber geriet in Vergessenheit, bis es in den 1970er Jahren zum architekturgeschichtlichen Sinnbild eines «imaginären Zürich» wurde; jüngst war es wieder und sogar gleichzeitig im Zürcher Stadthaus und im Kunsthaus zu sehen - einmal zusammen mit weiteren «verpassten» Projekten für die Stadt, im anderen Fall mit dem OEuvre des Architekten."

2025-02-13 16:41

Tags: picturesque, stadtbild, consumption, protection
Author, Title: Stanislaus von Moos_Erste Hilfe

"In Zürich sei die unbeschädigte Bebauung im Zentrum von Nachteil, argumentierte die gemeinderätliche Verkehrskommission 1956 ganz unkompliziert nach einer Studienreise durch Deutschland. Dort hätten die Bombardierungen breite Lücken gerissen, die wenigstens teilweise für Strassenverbreiterungen in Anspruch genommen werden können. Eine verbesserte Verkehrsführung im Bereich von Bahnhof, Bahnhofbrücke und Central war bereits beschlossene Sache gewesen, als 1948 die Liquidation der noch bestehenden Bauten im Limmatraum, insbesondere des Papierwerd Areals, an die Hand genommen wurde. Man schickte sich also an, den Kahlschlag, den anderswo die Bombardierungen verursacht hatten, gewissermassen als Trockenübung nachzuvollziehen. Ein Volksentscheid sorgte 1951 dafür, dass der Blick von der Bahnhofsbrücke zum Grossmünster und darüber hinaus bis in den Alpenraum schweifen konnte, und einige Jahre später wurde die Doktrin von der "Freien Limmat" durch den Abbruch der Fleischhalle aus dem 19. Jahrhundert zum fait accompli. Ein nicht unwesentlicher Aspekt der von Karl Moser 1933 vorgeschlagenen Niederdorfsanierung war damit realisiert."

2025-02-20 17:23

Tags: inventory, politics, preservation, legislation
Author, Title: Kantonale Denkmalpflege_Legislation

"§ 6 KNHV
Die Inventare enthalten wenigstens folgende Angaben:
1. knappe Umschreibung und Wertung des Objektes
1. bestehende Schutzmassnahmen
3.Schutzzweck.
§ 7 KNHV
Für folgende Sachgebiete werden je separate Inventare erstellt:
1. Objekte des Naturschutzes
2. Objekte des Landschaftsschutzes
3. Objekte des Denkmalschutzes
4. Objekte der Archäologie
5. Objekte des Ortsbildschutzes
§ 204 PBG
1. Staat, Gemeinden sowie jene Körperschaften, Stiftungen und selbstständigen Anstalten des öffen tlichen und des privaten Rechts, die öffentliche Aufgaben erfüllen, haben in ihrer Tätigkeit dafür zu sorgen, dass Schutzobjekte geschont und, wo das öffentliche Interesse an diesen überwiegt, ung- eschmälert erhalten bleiben.
§ 213 PBG
1. Jeder Grundeigentümer ist jederzeit berechtigt, vom Gemeinwesen einen Entscheid über die Schutzwürdigkeit seines Grundstücks und über den Umfang allfälliger Schutzmassnahmen zu ver langen, wenn er ein aktuelles Interesse glaubhaft macht.
§ 211 PBG
1. Der Gemeinderat trifft die Schutzmassnahmen für Objekte von kommunaler Bedeutung.
§ 203 PBG
1. Schutzobjekte sind:
Ortskerne, Quartiere, Strassen und Plätze, Gebäudegruppen, Gebäude und Teile sowie Zugehör von solchen, die als wichtige Zeugen einer politischen, wirtschaftlichen, sozialen oder baukünstleri- schen Epoche erhaltenswürdig sind oder die Landschaften oder Siedlungen wesentlich mitprägen, samt der für ihre Wirkung wesentlichen Umgebung;
[…] wertvolle Park- und Gartenanlagen, Bäume, Baumbestände, Feldgehölze und Hecken; […]
Die Leitsätze zur Denkmalpflege in der Schweiz (Zürich 2007, S. 13), halten dazu fest:
1. «Der Mensch hat ein Grundbedürfnis nach Erinnerung. Sie stützt sich wesentlich auf Orte und Objekte.»
2. «Denkmäler sind ortsgebundene Objekte, die geschichtlichen Zeugniswert haben. Denkmäler können Zeugnisse jeglichen menschlichen Wirkens sein, historischer Ereignisse und Entwicklungen, künstlerischer Leistungen, sozialer Einrichtungen, technischer Errungenschaften.»
3. «Denkmäler sind bestimmt durch ihre überlieferte Materie; diese macht die Authentizität der Denkmäler aus.»"

Title: Gemüsebrücke bald Vergangenheit
Author: Die Tat
Year: 1971

Tags: memory, history, discourse, inventory, fiction

2025-03-17 20:44

Tags: periphery, city_planning, class
Author, Title: Margrit Kaufmann_Herr Zürich und Knecht Aussersihl

“Als erster Gebäudekomplex nahe der Sihlbrücke ausserhalb Zürichs wurde im 12. Jahrhundert von der Fraumünsterabtei ein Siechenhaus zur Aufnahme Aussätziger und anderer Kranker gebaut. Dadurch konnten die ‘Sondersiechen1 (die Aussätzigen) von der Stadtbevölkerung isoliert ,werden. Ans Siechenhaus wurde die Kapelle St. Jakob mit einem Beinhaus angebaut und daneben ein Friedhof angelegt”

2025-02-14 09:25

Tags: value, care, maintenance, heritage
Author, Title: Georg Franck_Mentaler Kapitalismus

“Geben wir Acht auf das, worauf wir Wert legen, oder legen wir Wert auf das, worauf wir achten? Die Frage erinnert an jene nach Henne und Ei. Wertlegen kommt nicht ohne Achtgeben, Achtgeben nicht ohne Wertlegen vor. Alles Werten geht auf die angenehmen oder unangenehmen Gefühle zurück, die unser Achten färben. Und alles Achten ist, wie blaß und verschwommen auch immer, emotional gefärbt.”

Title: The Power of Place
Author: Dolores Hayden
Year: 1995
Source:

Tags:

2025-05-18 17:24

Tags: design, capitalism, labour
Author, Title: Sergio Ferro_O canteiro e o desenho

"The fundamental function of architectural drawing today is to enable the commodity form of the architectural object — which could not be achieved without it [...] Architectural drawing is an obligatory path for the extraction of surplus value and cannot be separated from any other form of production drawing."

Title: GGrundform des Abschlusses und der Ausbreitung
Author: Eberstadt
Year: 1917
Source:

Tags: periphery, urbanism, infrastructure, subsistence

2025-05-18 17:18

Tags: protection, displacement, identity
Author, Title: David Harvey_Rebel Cities

"The collective memory of the city is being rewritten. Through strategies of control, erasure, and displacement, neoliberal urbanism seeks to efface the memory of previous struggles embedded in the urban fabric."

Title: Ballonphotographie
Author: Ed Spelterini
Year: 1906
Source:

Tags: expansion, speculation, urbanism

Title: Dejeuner sur l'herbe
Author: Edouard Manet
Year: 1862
Source:

Tags: modernity, [[03_tags/public|03_tags/public]], alienation, nostalgia, economic

Title: The Execution of Emperor Maximilian
Author: Edouard Manet
Year: 1867
Source: Wikipedia

Tags: restoration, archive fragment

Title: Papierwerd-Areal
Author: Eduard Spelterini
Year: 1909
Source:

Tags: production, labour, stadtgestalt, subsistence

,

Title: Queen Square London
Author: Edward Dayes
Year: 1786
Source:

Tags: speculation, [[03_tags/public|03_tags/public]], square

Title: Stadtbefestigung Bastion Katz
Author: Emil Schulthess
Year: 1834
Source: Wikipedia

Tags: information, archaeology, nostalgia

2025-02-07 12:01

Tags: [[03_tags/ensemble|03_tags/ensemble]], speculation, protection, consumption
Author, Title: Gottlieb Loertscher_Denkmalpflege und Ortsbildschutz

"Die Einsicht indesen, dass der Schutz eines Baudenkmals fragwürdig leibt, wenn seine Umgebung nicht mit einbezogen wird, führte zur idee des Ensembleschutzes."

Title: Stadt Zürich Bebauungsplan
Author: Erismann
Year: 1899
Source:

Tags: politics, urbanism, seperation

Title: Urkunde für den Denkmalschutz
Author: Ernst Keller
Year: 1918
Source:

Tags: value, protection, education, politics

Title: Zürcher Altstadt als Hintergrund für einen Trachtenumzug anlässlich der Landi
Author: Ernst Laur
Year: 1939
Source:

Tags: identity, nostalgia, backdrop, production, duality

Title: Die Sanierung der Altstädte
Author: Ernst Reinhard
Year: 1945
Source: Geplante Altstadt

Tags: preservation, historic_city_center, city_planning, image, ensemble, coherence

Title: Plate XIV from Discourses on Architecture Volume 1
Author: Eugene-Emanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Year: 1889
Source:

Tags: shadow, restoration, mediation, novelty

Title: The Methods of Restoration of Architectural Monuments
Author: Evgenii Vasil’evich Mikhailovskii
Year: 1977
Source:

Tags: restoration, authenticity, authority

Title: Antiquae Urbis Romae cum Regionibus Simulacrum
Author: Fabio Calvo
Year: 1527
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Tags: gnomon, monument, heritage, tourist

Title: Sanierungsprojekt Block 9
Author: Felix Baerlocher and Philipp Bridel
Year: 1948
Source: Geplante Altstadt

Tags: preservation, historic_city_center, city_planning, image, ensemble, coherence

Title: Wandbild in der Aula des Polytechnikum
Author: Ferdinand Hodler
Year: 1889
Source:

Tags: duality architecture, modernity, infrastructure

Title: Wilhelm Tell
Author: Ferdinand Hodler
Year: 1807
Source:

Tags: nationalism, expansion, objectivity

Title: Hafner Inseln
Author: Ferdinand Keller
Year: 1868

Tags: zurich, water, territory, surface

Title: Stadtplan Zürich
Author: Ferdinand Keller
Year: 1504

Tags: zurich, city_planning, limmat, medieval

2025-05-18 17:36

Tags: narrative, authority, fiction, culture
Author, Title: Michel de Certeau_The Practice of Everyday Life

"Every story is a travel story—a spatial practice. It is a practice of space. Thus, the ‘place’ (lieu) of the tale is constructed by a displacement: it is composed by a series of displacements, combinations, and articulations of positions. In this respect, narrative structures are not, as is too often supposed, models or copies of spatial relations; they are themselves spatial structures."

2025-05-18 17:23

Tags: representation,supplementation, conflict
Author, Title: John Rajchman_Constructions

"Folding is an art of seeing something not seen, something not already ‘there.’ For the jumbled lines and tilted planes of the folding irruption, which deflect its surfaces onto its angular remnants, do not translate a free-flowing or transparent space. […] Rebstock complicates the space in which forms might otherwise freely flow and so intrudes into its site, unfolding unnoticed implications. It works thus as an index that points to a diagrammatic rather than a programmatic or a nostalgic reading of the site—an illuminating disparation in the midst of things."

2025-02-06 11:57

Tags: preservation, authenticity, novelty
Author, Title: Jorge Otero-Pailos_Preservation is Overtaking Us

"Resistance to preservation takes the form of a conservative argument that insists on seeing the cultural deficiency of architectural form as a deviation from true architecture: Form should be the driver of cultural significance, and if it isn’t, then the problem lies with the culture itself. Such a conservative stance tolerates preservation but only under duress, as a necessary supplement. It only permits preservation to touch architecture as long as it remains secondary, even invisible, formless in order to better elevate architectural form as a “natural” object of cultural significance. Within this conservative logic, preservation becomes a self-effacing mode of supplementation meant to restore cultural significance to architecture by fundamentally transforming the public’s perception of buildings, without calling attention to itself. Preservation appears in the image of architecture, assuming its existing form."

2025-02-06 11:42

Tags: aesthetic, popular_memory, authenticity
Author, Title: Rem Koolhaas_Preservation is Overtaking Us

"Mikhailovskii’s view of leaving architecture unchanged did not translate into a conservation approach akin to what John Ruskin might have endorsed; he was perfectly comfortable substituting large portions of the material fabric in historic buildings with new in-kind substitutes, so long as they did not change the form of the building. The work of preservation had to aspire to formal self-effacement, or formlessness, vis-à-vis the work of architecture in order to be able to operate more freely at another level, that of cultural mediation."

2025-02-13 16:26

Tags: place, ritual, fortification
Author, Title: Kari Jormakka_Heimlich Manoeuvres

"Before the foundations rites, there is no human culture and no place for it. Rituals do not accept time and space as their context or bearer but rather cut continuous space into a templum and individuate time as a particulare tempus. The close connection between temporal and spatial separations was cleverly illustrated by Fabio calvo in his famous diagram of 1527 which represented augustan rome as a circular sun dial, divided by city gates into equal sectors, each with its own monument. As a place, rome is brought into existence by the establishment of the enclosure and the axially located gates and organized by triumphal arches and other monuments within the city. With the foundation of place, time commences; the roman calendar begins ab urbe condita. "

Tags: archaeology, objectivity, geolocation, cartography, restoration

Until the 18th century, the study of the past followed an antiquarian approach. The analysis of artefacts was driven by a desire for preservation, though this was often influenced by contemporary ideologies and aesthetic preferences. With the Enlightenment and the introduction of an archaeological mindset, research shifted from the seemingly subjective toward “objectivity.” Accurate representation without ideological or subjective bias became the primary goal, marking a transition to empiricism and scientific rigor. Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s Scenographia Campi Martii is a pivotal work in the discourse on heritage and preservation, offering a radical vision of Rome that intertwines destruction, restoration, and reconstruction into a single representation. Unlike the conventional preservation practices of his time, Piranesi does not depict Rome’s ruins as restored monuments, but rather presents them in their fragmented, decayed state, capturing the ruins as they appeared in his time. This approach challenges traditional restoration methods by focusing on the present condition of the ruins and using them as a basis for reimagining a new Rome. In doing so, Piranesi moves beyond a purely “scientific approach,” navigating a space
between restoration and imagination.

2025-05-18 17:34

Tags: tactics, landmark, power
Author, Title: Michel de Certeau_The Practice of Everyday Life

"The place of a tactic belongs to the other. A tactic insinuates itself into the other’s place, fragmentarily, without taking it over in its entirety, without being able to keep it at a distance. It is a maneuver ‘within the enemy’s field of vision,’ and within enemy territory. It does not have the means to keep to itself, at a distance, in a position of withdrawal, foresight, and self-collection. It is, then, a tactic determined by the absence of power, just as a strategy is organized by the postulation of power."

Title: Heraclea Minoa
Author: Franco Minissi
Year: 1973
Source:

Tags: restoration, preservation, usability

Title: The Invention of the Historic Monument
Author: Francoise Choay
Year: 2001
Source:

Tags: heritage, monument,

Title: Walkeweg
Author: Frano Karlovic
Year: 2025
Source: Frano Karlovic

Tags: prefabrication, construction, displacement, repair, restoration

Title: Augustinertor
Author: Franz Hegi
Year: 1800
Source:

Tags: heimat, urbanism, backdrop

1800_FranzHegi_Augustinertor_alt-zueri

Title: Kronentor
Author: Franz Hegi
Year: 1827
Source:

Tags: heimat, archaeology, image, document

Title: Lindentor
Author: Franz Hegi
Year: 1800
Source:

Tags: local, identity, fortification

1800_FranzHegi_Lindentor_Zürich in 500 Bildern

Title: Rennwegtor
Author: Franz Hegi
Year: 1812
Source:

Tags: expansion, nostalgia, tourist

Title: Schauspielhaus
Author: Franz Schmelhaus
Year: 1902
Source:

Tags: entertainment, authenticity, language

Title: Wellenbergturm
Author: Franz Schmid
Year: 1800
Source:

Tags: panorama, labour, limmat

Title: Altstadt Wohnstadt
Author: Fredy Sigg
Year: 1975
Source: Nebelspalter

Tags: heimatschutz, politics

2025-02-13 15:12

Tags: capitalism, urbanism, zurich
Author, Title: Irma Noseda_Martin Steinmann_Zeitzeichen

"With the federal constitution of 1848, the economy can develop free of cantonal barriers. An essential tool in this process is the railroad. Compared to other countries, railroad construction in Switzerland begins late, in the 1850s, on a private basis. To finance it, banking companies are founded, with which capitalism acquires great economic and political power. In response, the democratic movement emerges, which, with the revision of the Federal Constitution in 1874, at least curtails the wild impulses of capitalism. The building industry, for its part, was dominated by the railroad. Negotiations in the SIA revolved again and again around bridges, which had to be built in large numbers in Switzerland. Iron is available in large quantities thanks to new technical processes."

Title: Region, ein Konstrukt?
Author: Friedrich Achleitner
Year: 1986
Source:

Tags: heimat, switzerland

Tags: historic_city_center, class, city_planning, image, townscape, stadtbild

Together with the extension of Bahnhofstrasse to the lake, the construction of the quayside facilities will enable the radical transformation of the previously remote and ‘run-down’ Kratz neighbourhood into a first-class business district.

2025-05-18 17:30

Tags: education, labour, seperation, capitalism
Author, Title: Sergio Ferro_Concrete as Weapon

"No other means of construction allowed such a satisfactory separation of the mental from the manual elements of labour. The weapon of workers’ know-how gave way to the weapon of presumed prescriptive knowledge. A chiasmus: at the construction site the know-how declines, resulting in deskilling and deeper subordination of the workforce; knowing emigrates, distancing itself more and more from doing, and draws more power and aura into capital."

2025-05-18 16:34

Tags: authenticity, restoration, material_culture
Author, Title: Evgenii Vasil’evich Mikhailovskii_The Methods of Restoration of Architectural Monuments

“Authenticity gives way to trustworthiness (if the restoration has a scientific basis). In this case, the monument of the history of material culture largely gets destroyed: it is replaced by the monument of architectural history.”

2025-03-17 21:15

Tags: smooth_surface, paris, ideology, monument, subjectivity, power
Author, Title: Corinne Fournier_The Disciplinary City

“Moreover, iron and glass are at once hard and smooth materials on which nothing, not even time, can leave its marks. “Whitened” is the city of Paris cleansed by the operations of Haussmann and henceforth “ praised for its splendour”; “ whitewashed” are the “noble old Norman houses” deprived of their sculptures and ornaments “in order to bring the interior of the town into some conformity with the ‘handsome fronts’ of the hotels and offices on the quay”. Whether the traces of time are erased, as in iron and glass architecture, distorted, as in historicist architecture, or museified, as in restoration - the ideology that governs all these acts is always the same. It is a matter of swapping the status of the monument as sign for its status as signal, a matter of emptying the monument of all deeply felt memories in order to transform it into a commodity for visual and intellectual consumption. As a result, if the traditional monument is, by definition, what shatters a living memory by the bias of emotion and prompts the reactivation of stories of origins, the proliferation of buildings such as crystal palaces could lead to a civilization with no history, no memory, no traditions and no identifying landmarks, and thus with no means of defense when faced with the manipulative and dominating practices of power.”

2025-02-13 15:16

Tags: urbanism, global, heimat
Author, Title: McEwen V. Mitch_A Brief Architectural History of Intersectionality

"The work of intersection troubles the assumption that changing society can be imagined by erasing segments and making them uniform. From the intersection, we can see the formalism of smooth edges, single surfaces and landscaped parametricist urbanism as the fantasy of a centre that never ends, an endless big house."

2025-05-18 16:11

Tags: city_planning, class, periphery
Author, Title: Richard Senett_The Fall of Public Man

“The real estate ideas of Baron Haussmann in the last century were based on homogenization. New districts in the city were to be of a single class, and in the old central city rich and poor were to be isolated from each other. This was the beginning of ‘single function’ urban development. Each space in the city does a particular job, and the city itself is atomized.”

2025-02-05 16:41

Tags: lifespan, city_planning, function, image, stadtbild
Author, Title: Alessandro Carlini and Bernhard Schneider_Die Stadt als Text

"Der gesellschaftliche Handlungsbereich ist in seinen Bestandteilen und Ordnungsmustern sehr viel instabiler als die bausysteme, mit denen seine Bauaufgaben erfüllt warden. Funktionen sind kurzlebiger als Bauten. Darin liegt einerseits das unlösbare Prognosenproblem aller aktuellen Planung begründet, andererseits das unlösbare Stadtbildproblem, wenn die Bedingung für einmögliches Stadbild in einem Bedeutungsbezug zwischen Bau-Ausdruck und einem Funktions-Inhalt bestehen sollte."

Title: Economic Psychology
Author: Gabriel Tarde
Year: 1902
Source:

Tags: value, collective_eye, ideology, economic

Title: Origins of Kitsch
Author: Gary Tedman
Year: 2009
Source:

Tags: production, aesthetic, kitsch

Title: The City of Zurich
Author: Georg Braun and FranzHogenberg
Year: 1581
Source:

Tags: zurich, plan, limmat, [[]]

Title: Mentaler Kapitalismus
Author: Georg Franck
Year: 2005
Source:

Tags: heritage, society, legacy, tradition

Tags: education, heritage, museum, nationalism, protection, [[03_tags/heimatschutz|03_tags/heimatschutz]], heimat

The conservation philosophy held that architectural monuments were best appreciated by the educated, with professionals tasked to preserve and convey the aesthetic values of a ‘Modern European.’ Only those with cultural literacy could fully understand the social and national narratives within these historic structures. Architecture and archaeology, claiming expertise over material culture, played a key role in identifying and protecting significant monuments.

During this ongoing development, the twentieth century saw the rise of numerous new influential global actors. With the call for the “Geistige Landesverteidigung” countless institutions in the intersection of state authority and the private sector were formed for the protection of the built environment, carefully selecting its own narrative along the scattered ground. These included professional organisations, philanthropic foundations, research bodies and lobbying entities, and above all, the Swiss Heimatschutz.

Title: Map of Rome
Author: Giambattista Nolli
Year: 1748
Source: Wikimedia

Tags: cartography, rome, monument, heritage

Title: Campus Martius
Author: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Year: 1762
Source:

Tags: cartography, heritage, monument

Title: Ichnographia
Author: Giovanni Batista Piranesi
Year: 1762
Source: Wikimedia

Tags: cartography, monument, rome, subjectivity

Title: Piazza Novana
Author: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Year: 1778
Source:

Tags: water, rome, flood, square, representation

Title: Piazza Novana Zoom
Author: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Year: 1778
Source:

Tags: stadtgestalt, urbanism, flood

Title: Scenographia
Author: Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Year: 1762
Source:

Tags: archive, ruin, monument, rome, heritage

Title: The Trojans rolling the wooden horse into the city
Author: Giulio Bonasone and Francesco Primaticcio
Year: 1545
Source: Metmuseum

Tags: mask, global, solidification, elasticity

2025-02-07 14:47

Tags: heimat, global, alienation
Author, Title: Bruno Latour_On a Possible Triangulation of Some Present Political Positions

"Well, for onething, in spite of the powerful image of the blue planet that we all have in mind, there is no stable point from which you can survey the Globe as a whole (a point well made by Peter Sloterdijk).2 To consider the planet as a Globe means that you imagine yourself in some sort of godlike position, let’s call it the view from nowhere, and that it is from this imaginary viewpoint that you take every older local attachment to the Land, to the Heimat ,as limited, regressive, and archaic. For us, those who live on the land surveyed by this all-powerful gaze, the Globe appears as an infinite horizon, an always-receding frontier."

Title: Sanierungsprojekt Block 2
Author: Gottfried Bachmanna and Oskar Burri and Otto Glaus
Year: 1947
Source: Geplante Altstadt

Tags: preservation, historic_city_center, city_planning, image, ensemble, coherence

Title: Projekt für Bahnhofstrasse
Author: Gottfried Semper
Year: 1858
Source:

Tags: mediation, archaeology, place

Title: Denkmalpflege und Ortsbildschutz
Author: Gottlieb Loertscher
Year: 1987
Source:

Tags: ensemble, stadtbild

Title: Versetzbare Einzelstände auf der Gemüsebrücke
Author: Graphische Sammlung der Zürcher Zentralbibliothek
Year: 1855
Source:

Tags: global, change, intangible, local

Title: Im Zeichen von Liberté und Egalité wird der Zürcher Staatsschatz weggeführt
Author: Graphische Sammlung Zentralbibliothek Zürich
Year: 1848
Source:

Tags: economic, expansion, heimat, [[03_tags/public|03_tags/public]]

Title: Frühlingsdemo
Author: Gretlers Panoptikum
Year: 1981
Source: Sozialarchiv

Tags: plateau, society, battle, public, floor

Title: Jugendbewegung
Author: Gretlers Panoptikum
Year: 1980
Source: Sozialarchiv

Tags: revolution, vandalism, memory, limmat, rathausbrücke, legislation

Title: Maifeier
Author: Gretlers Panoptikum
Year: 1897
Source: Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv

Tags: class, alienation, function

Title: Die Dufourkarte entstand parallel zum modernen Bundesstaat 1848
Author: Guillaume Henri Dufour
Year: 1861
Source:

Tags: cartography, power, expansion, heimat, territory

Title: Fraumünster Restoration
Author: Gustav Gull
Year: 1904
Source:

Tags: mask, future, authenticity, patrimoine, restoration, neutrality

Title: Landesmuseum
Author: Gustav Gull
Year: 1898
Source:

Tags: identity, museum, city, education, exclusion

Title: Projektdarstellung des städtischen Verwaltungszentrum
Author: Gustav Gull
Year: 1905
Source:

Tags: surface, identity, authenticity, infrastructure

Title: Verwaltungsgebäude
Author: Gustav Gull
Year: 1905
Source:

Tags: custodianship, periphery, installment

Title: Plakat der Schweiz zum europäischen Jahr für Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz
Author: Hans Erni
Year: 1975
Source:

Tags: present, preservation, future, heritage, heimatschutz, duality

Title: Malerischer Plan der Stadt Zürich und ihrer Umgebung
Author: Hans Felix Leuthold
Year: 1847
Source:

Tags: picturesque, panorama, heimat, economic, decay

Title: Grendeltor
Author: Hans Jakob Kull
Year:
Source: Gebrüder Dürst

Tags: nostalgia], landmark, tourist

Title: Altartafeln
Author: Hans Leu der Ältere
Year: 1450
Source: Wikipedia

Tags: representation, zurich, stadtbild, image, historic_city_center

Title: Altartafel
Author: Hans Leu der Ältere
Year: 1500
Source: Wikimedia

Tags: zurich, bridge, infrastructure, medieval

Title: Panorama der Stadt Zürich links der Limmat
Author: Hans Leu der Ältere
Year: 1450
Source:

Tags: stadtbild, panorama, medieval, limmat, water

Title: Schanzenring
Author: Hans-Peter Bärtschi
Year: 1983
Source:

Tags: fortification, expansion, periphery, global, boundary

Title: Industrialisierung, Eisenbahnschlachten und Mietskasernenbau
Author: Hans-Peter Baertschi
Year: 1980
Source:

Tags: class, city, access

2025-02-15 10:12

Tags: home, heimat, romanticism, tradition, city
Author, Title: Friedrich Achleitner_Region, ein Konstrukt

“Der Begriff Heimat hat sich im späten 19. Jahrhundert als zentraler Terminus einer Kulturbewegung entwickelt, die einerseits in Konflikt stand mit der Großstadtkultur der Metropolen (Scholle gegen Asphalt), mit den Auswirkungen der industriellen Revolution, der zunehmenden Überbauung der Landschaft, mit Liberalismus und Unternehmertum, die sich andererseits aber auch bedroht fühlte vom Internationalismus des Proletariats, der Organisation einer neuen Kraft von unten, die ebenfalls als Produkt und Gefahr aus der Großstadt gesehen wurde. [...] Heimat war von vornherein ein brisanter kulturpolitischer Begriff, entstanden aus dem Bewusstsein eines Verlustes einer wie auch immer richtig oder falsch interpretierten heilen Welt. Heimat entstand also in der Polarität von national und international, rational und irrational, Handwerk und Industrie, Kleinstadt/Dorf und Großstadt, Natur und Dekadenz, gesund und krank, Tradition und Fortschritt, sozialer Geborgenheit und anonymer Massengesellschaft. Heimat war eine überschaubare, tradierte Welt. Dem Großstädter wurde sie undweg abgesprochen. Heimat war von Anfang an ein romantischer Fluchtbegriff, entstanden aus dem Bewusstsein eines Verlustes.“

2025-02-07 10:55

Tags: education, image, urbanism, class, moral, reformation
Author, Title: Martin Viehhauser_Reformierung des Menschen durch Stadtraumgestaltung

"Anhand der breiten Betätigungsfelder des Heimatschutzes lässt sich ablesen, dass seine Werte auf einer gesamtgesellschaftlichen Kritik beruhten und dass die Handlungsentwürfe entsprechend gesamtgesellschaftlich ansetzten. Dafür ist die intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Schulhausbau ein Beleg, dessen ›erbauliches‹ Potential für die junge Generation als »stiller Miterzieher« erkannt wurde. Wenn der ästhetische Code des Heimatstils zur Kommunikation der regionalen Werte und der Werte der Tradition eingesetzt wurde, so lag dahinter ein umfassender sozialer, kultureller, politischer und ökonomischer Zusammenhang einer moralerzieherischen Strategie, die auf dem Wissen um die Wirkmechanismen der architektonischen Ensemblegestaltung mit städtebaulicher Dimension beruhte."

Title: Bildtafel zur Altstadtsanierung
Author: Heimatschutz
Year: 1947
Source: Heimatschutz

Tags: education, discourse, mediation, image

Title: Einfache Wohnhäuser
Author: Heimatschutz
Year: 1908
Source:

Tags: strategy, iconoclasm, tradition

Title: Gutes Beispiel und Schlechtes Beispiel
Author: Heimatschutz
Year: 1906
Source:

Tags: mediation, authenticity, change

Title: Ligue pour la Beauté
Author: Heimatschutz
Year: 1905
Source:

Tags: labour, veil, power

Title: Reklameunwesen
Author: Heimatschutz
Year: 1915
Source:

Tags: alienation, global, anesthesia, moral

Title: Schoggitaler
Author: Heimatschutz
Year: 2022
Source: Heimatschutz.ch

Tags: politics, rural, heimat, identity, ideology, heimatschutz, discourse

Title: Zürich von Norden
Author: Heinrich Burger
Year: 1884
Source:

Tags: cartography, museum, tourist, strategy

Title: Ausschnitt aus einer Karte von Zürich und Umgebung
Author: Heinrich Keller
Year: 1800
Source:

Tags: cartography, climate, legislation, identity

Title: Kellerplan der Stadt Zürich
Author: Heinrich Keller
Year: 1824
Source:

Tags: landmark, identity, cartography, transformation

1824_HeinrichKeller_Kellerplan der Stadt Zürich_Wikipedia

Title: Oberdorftor
Author: Heinrich Keller
Year: 1813
Source:

Tags: change, stadtbild, landscape

Title: Zürcher Reformation Disputation
Author: Heinrich Thomann
Year: 1523
Source: reformation, zurich

Tags:

Title: Ein Bahnhof bei der Langsstrasse
Author: Heinrich Ernst
Year: 1896
Source:

Tags: politics, stadtgestalt, preservation, value

Title: A new Address
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: value, production, tourist, power

Title: A New Plateau
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: strategy, cartography, exchange, politics

Title: A Public Organ
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: language, skeleton, decay, public, identity

Title: Alterations of the Kiosk
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: temporality, usability, flexibility, interchangeability

Title: Axonometric Bridge Structure
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: construction, prefabrication, archaeology, excavation, limmat

Title: Axonometric Corner
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: restoration, glitch, anomaly, flexibility

Title: Axonometric Cylinder
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprechtde
Year: 2025

Tags: hearth, progress, public, usability

Title: Axonometric Dock
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: prefabrication, square, public, legislation, rupture

Title: Axonometric Kiosk
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: flexibility, interchangeability, stadtbild, transformation, supplementation

Title: Axonometric Roof
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: language, attic, ensemble, entertainment

Title: Backside
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: panorama, backdrop, interior, archive

Title: Bathymetrie Floor Plan
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: excavation, legislation, archaeology, flood

Title: Bauteillager
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024
Source:

Tags: archive, fetish

Title: Blue Plaque
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024
Source:

Tags: protection, rupture, politics, mundane

Title: Buildings along the Limmat
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: labour, scaffold, landscape, fortification

Title: Büro für Altstadtsanierung
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: demolition, stadtbild, nostalgia, ensemble, tourist

Title: Candelabra Detail
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: domestic, tactics, public, signal

Title: Catalogue of Parts
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: prefabrication, flexibility, local, capitalism, class

Title: Corner Stone
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: solidification, identity, flexibility

Title: Customs
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024
Source:

Tags: intangible, place, identity, ritual

Title: Cylinder as a Carrier
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: archive, usability, mundane, museum

Title: Dock during Drought
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: ritual, duality, rupture, townscape,

Title: Dock during Flood
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: risk, guide, infrastructure

Title: Dock during Normalcy
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: nostalgia, tourist, fetish, townscape

Title: Elevation Dock
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: risk, value, politics, boundary

Title: Elevation of Candelabra
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: alienation, global, ghost, ritual

Title: Elevation Roof 1
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: narrative, representation, fleeting, backdrop

Title: Elevation Roof 2
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: disorientation, solidification, signal, moral

Title: Elevation Roof Skin Cut Pattern
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: repair, universal, transcript

Title: Flood Risk Scenario
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: legislation, risk, speculation, landscape

Title: Floor Plan Café
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: decay, doubt, climate, function

Title: Floor Plan Falafel Restaurant
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: specificity, function, virtual, memory

Title: Floor Plan Studiolo
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: commons, interior, mediation, public

Title: Floor Plan Weinplatz
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: battle, landscape, picturesque, tourist, value

Title: Flooring Code
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: interior, dialectical, usability, politics, place

Title: Flow Analysis
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: subjectivity, cartography, capitalism, intangible

Title: Geometry Balustrade
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: prefabrication, design, historicism, politics

Title: Geometry Bench
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: subjectivity, usability, reclamation, language

Title: Geometry Candelabra
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: detail, duality, global

Title: Gözleme
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024

Tags: heritage, intangible, quasi-object, usability, threshold

Title: Hearth
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024

Tags: quasi-object, landmark, usability, subjectivity, public, muted voices

Title: Inventory Roof
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: displacement, inventory, restoration, patina

Title: Kiosk
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024

Tags: usability, objectivity, devaluation

Title: Kiosk Panorama Middle
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: interior, intangible, custodianship, usability, public

Title: Kiosk Panorama Front
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: usability, square, flexibility, quasi-object, intangible

Title: Landmark
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024

Tags: landmark, quasi-object, boundary, threshold

Title: Light is never Neutral
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: politics, value, protection, museum, enlightenment

Title: Market
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: market, interior, square, striated, threshold

Title: Market on the Bridge
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: intangible, market, usability, public

Title: Mero Node Anomaly
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: ensemble, stadtbild, heimat, origin

Title: New Axis
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: transformation, legislation, tourist, panorama, reclamation

Title: New Lake Level Regulation
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: landscape, commons, politics, supplementation, access

Title: Ngram of Preservation
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: protection, patrimoine, urbanism, moral

Title: Old And New
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: ghost, citywalls, smooth_surface, novelty, speculation

Title: Phenomenological Map
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: subjectivity, intangible, dialectical, cartography

Title: Plan Lumiere Elevation
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: rupture, consumption, photograph

Title: Plan Lumière Grid
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: rupture, displacement, alienation, detail

Title: Plateau and New Cylinder
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: transcript, neglect, panorama, doubt, construction

Title: Prosthesis
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: domestic, picturesque, interior, maintenance, alienation

Title: Protected Areas in Zurich
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: protection, periphery, demolition, value, patrimoine

Title: SOM Gemüsebrücke
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: provocation, city, language, intangible

Title: Studiolo
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: access, temporality, interchangeability, attic, public

Title: Studiolo Elevation
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: dialectical, panorama, fleeting, ensemble

Title: Territorial Dependencies
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: territory, periphery, nature, choreography

Title: The Alpine Panorama
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024

Tags: stadtbild, panorama, image, value, alibi, class

Title: The Texture of Aggregate Concrete
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: smooth_surface striated, transformation

Title: Transport
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: interchangeability, flexibility, scaffold, authority, usability, fold

Title: Unveiling
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: defensibility, global, local, subsistence, capitalism

Title: Water Protection and ISOS
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2024

Tags: value, alibi, destruction, devaluation, fiction

Title: Water Regulations
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025

Tags: legislation, regulation, limmat

Title: Whose Past
Author: Héloïse Dussault-Cloutier and Daniel Epprecht
Year: 2025
Source:

Tags: historicism, nostalgia, economic, landmark

Title: Philip Albert Stapfer als erster Kulturminister
Author: Helvetische Republik
Year: 1800
Source:

Tags: landscape, legislation, urbanism, cartography

2025-02-06 11:16

Tags: discourse, archive, identity
Author, Title: David Harvey_The History of Heritage

"Heritage itself is not a thing and does not exist by itself – nor does it imply a movement or a project. Rather, heritage is about the process by which people use the past – a ‘discursive construction’ with material consequences."

2025-02-06 13:22

Tags: nationalism, heimat, class, education, heritage
Author, Title: Raphael Samuel_Theatres of Memory

"Heritage, according to the critics, is the mark of a sick society, one which, despairing of the future, had become besotted or obsessed with an idealized version of its past. The historicist turn in british culture, which they date from 1975 - the year when the term heritage began its inflationary career - corresponded to the onset of economic recession, the contraction of manufacturing industry and the return of mass unemployment. It testified to the collapse of british power. Heritage prepared the way for, or could be thought as giving expression to, a recrudescene of Little Englandism and the revival of nationalism as a force in political life. It anticipated and gave expression to the triumph of Thatcherism in the sphere of high politics. Heritage in short, was a symbol of national decadence; a malignant growth which testified at once to the strength of this country ancient regime and to the weakness of radical alternatives to it. It was an admission, according to Robert Hewison in “The Heritage Industry” that history was over. In Patrick Wrights “On Living in an old country” it was part of the selffulfilling culture of national decline."

2025-02-06 11:21

Tags: education, future, politics, preservation
Author, Title: David Harvey_The History of Heritage

"Augustus Pugin’s polemical Contrasts portrayed heritage as a reactionary answer to a supposed moral malaise, while John Ruskin sought a more progressive society through heritage – albeit one that sees social cohesion as part of an organically hierarchical society (Brooks, 1998, 8–10). As the nineteenth century progressed, heritage became the vehicle for both ‘conservative’ and ‘radical/progressive’ movements searching for an answer to the perceived evils of modern society. Cultural elites, as represented by figures such as George Gilbert Sco and the Cambridge Camden Society (and, indeed, as witnessed at many a provincial museum and amateur intellectual society) sought to maintain natural hierarchy and authority as a specific way of reading the world (Brand, 1998, 13–14; Miele, 1998, 106–7). William Morris, in contrast, used heritage as a means to encourage social and economic revolution. It is from figures such as Morris and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) that a concern for preservation (as opposed to restoration or ‘reconstitution’) comes"

2025-02-05 16:07

Tags: discourse, construction, heritage, memory, subjectivity
Author, Title: Alan Chandler and Michela Pace_The production of Heritage, p. 3

"Heritage is about the process by which people use the past - a 'discursive construction' with material consequences." This means that heritage is a selective concept that does not necessarily involve history, as history would entail a more careful observation of the facts and their implications. Heritage doesn't do the same work as history. It can be easily isolated and rearranged to inform a bespoke narrative. At heart, heritage refers to "the ways in which very selected past materials and artefacts, natural landscapes, mythologies, memories and traditions become cultural, political and economic resources for the present". Present concerns, therefore, are the temporal dimension of heritage. Its construction is closely linked to the notion of "memory" that, unlike history, seeks an uncritical relationship with the past."

2025-02-05 16:10

Tags: consumption, heritage, history, narrative, representation
Author, Title: Alan Chandler and Michela Pace_The production of Heritage, p. 4

"If we assume that heritage is a "contemporary use of the past", we should think that heritage is then used or 'consumed'. "What is consumed, however, is not so much the heritage itself, in the form of, for example, a building or a cultural landscape, but its representation in the form of historical narrative.""

Title: Umbau Gemüsebrücke
Author: Hermann Berger
Year: 1881
Source:

Tags: backdrop, picturesque, politics

Title: Essays on Architecture and City Planning
Author: Hermann Czech
Year: 2019
Source:

Tags: urbanism, city

Title: Imperialer Städtebau
Author: Hermann Herter
Year: 1915
Source:

Tags: industrialisation, politics, fortification

Title: Übersichtsplan für die geplante Bemalung
Author: Hermann Herter
Year: 1927
Source:

Tags: veil, moral, aesthetic, historic_city_center, change

Title: Regionalplanung
Author: Hippenmeier Bodmer
Year: 1915
Source:

Tags: urbanism, seperation, periphery

2025-02-13 15:42

Tags: modernity, global, future, local
Author, Title: Jorge Otero-Pailos_Experimental Preservation

"Frederic Jameson described postmodern culture as “an ultimate historicist breakdown in which we can no longer imagine the future at all, under any form — Utopian or catastrophic.” 19 To imagine the future, Jameson argued, one had to establish some historiographical relationship to it from the viewpoint of the present. But the problem was not a lack of historiographical models; the problem was more profound, even existential: it was the difficulty, perhaps even impossibility, of experiencing the present as historical — as part of the continuum of history. To counter this difficulty, Jameson proposed that we need to establish a relationship to the present that “somehow defamiliarizes it and allows us that distance from immediacy which is at length characterized as a historical perspective.” 20 In other words, we need to reify immediate experiences, to imagine them, say, as mental objects that can be named “the Noughts” or “the Teens”; and we also need to choose and reify physical objects — the street we live on, for instance, or the building where our community gathers."

2025-02-05 15:34

Tags: popular_memoryentertainment
Author, Title: Raphael Samuel_Theatres of Memory

"History has always been a hybrid form of knowledge, syncretizing past and present, memory and myth, the written record and the spoken word. Its subject matter is promiscuous… In popular memory, if not in high scholarship, the great flood or the freakstorm may eclipse wars, battles and the rise and fall of governments. As a form of communication, history finds expression not only in chronicle and commentary butalso ballad and song, legends and proverbs, riddles and puzzles. Church liturgies have carried one version of it – sacred history; civic ritual another. A present-day inventory would need to be equally alert to the memory work performed (albeit unintentionally)by the advertisers, and to the influence of tourism … As a self-conscious art, history begins with the monuments and inscriptions, and as the record of the built environment suggests, not the least of the influences changing historical consciousness today is the writing on the walls. The influence of video-games and science-fiction would be no less pertinent in trying to explain why the idea of chronological reversal, or time traveling, has become a normal way of engaging with the idea of the past."

Tags: history, commercial, tourist, universal

"Under this new form of governance, numerous nations in Europe have had no other choice but to monetize their historical conscience, millennial traditions, monuments, for the sake and proliferation of the tourism sector - ironically enough, the past that is often sold and showcased, is an increasing course of ignominy, intentionally refuted b opportunistic politics eager to satisfy naïve and dogmatic beliefs, where historical figures are publicly chastised.

History, with all its local and regional nuances and riches, has run its course - put on a shelf to be sold - it is now the race towards the universal, the McDonaldization."

2025-02-06 11:19

Tags: class, access, patrimoine
Author, Title: David Harvey_The History of Heritage

"Rather, what we can attempt to outline is a history of heritage in terms of a history of power relations that have been formed and operate via the deployment of the heritage process. This chapter, therefore, focuses upon the historical narrative of the changing forms of this process; its developing technologies, modes of representation and levels of access and control – in short, upon the history of the struggle to control the use of heritage within society."

Title: Die Entwicklung des Seequais in Zürich
Author: Hofer Burger
Year: 1890
Source:

Tags: representation, politics, global

2025-02-07 10:58

Tags: reformation, heimat, [[03_tags/tactics|03_tags/tactics]], stadtbild, politics
Author, Title: Martin Viehhauser_Reformierung des Menschen durch Stadtraumgestaltung

"Das Handlungsmuster der Sozialreform wird verständlich auf dem Hintergrund dieses Elements: der Wirkmacht der Vorstellungen von Ordnung. Diese Vorstellungen – mit Durkheim die Voraussetzung, um
im Kontext der Stadtraumgestaltung den Begriff ›Erziehung‹ fruchtbar zu machen – zielen auf die Vermittlung zwischen Individuum und Gesellschaft im Hinblick auf die Zukunftsdimension der Sicherung des gesellschaftlichen Funktionierens. Die wahrgenommene Notwendigkeit, dieses Verhältnis organisieren zu müssen, erschien in dem Moment als dringlich, in dem die traditionellen gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen
Formen als in Zerstörung begriffen betrachtet wurden. Sie wurde innerhalb der wissensbasierten Aufassung handlungswirksam, die die gesellschaftliche Lage als in Unordnung geraten charakterisierte: Pflüger"

Title: Locataires et Proprietaires
Author: Honoré Daumier
Year: 1852
Source: Paris - Capital of Modernity

Tags: social_control, urbanism, landmark

Title: Bildersturm
Author: Huldrych Zwingli
Year: 1524
Source: unknown

Tags: iconoclasm, vandalism, zurich, reformation

Title: A Short Christian Introduction
Author: Huldrych Zwingly
Year: 1523
Source:

Tags: reformation, power, city, zurich1

2025-05-18 16:42

Tags: archaeology, design, transformation
Author, Title: Beatriz Colomina - Mark Wigley_Are We Human

"Archaeology is an amalgam of polemical speculative debate and the latest understanding of scientific rigor. It is a kind of reverse engineering of design. It tries to recover possible pasts while design looks forward to possible futures. Design is a form of projection... This endless reshaping and speculation about possible outcomes is uniquely human. The archaeology of design is not simply about the history of the human animal as revealed in all the layers of artifacts. It uncovers the sedimented ways of reinventing the human."

Title: The Venice Charter
Author: ICOMOS
Year: 1964
Source: ICOMOS

Tags: ensemble, coherence, stadtbild, townscape

2025-03-17 20:26

Tags: image, reformation, power, iconoclasm,
Author, Title: Huldrych Zwingly_A Short Christian Introduction

,,Now let someone show us where they have painted or copied this faith. This we cannot learn from walls, but only from the gracious pulling of God out of his own word. We recognize here that the image leads only to external weakness and cannot make the heart faithful. We see externally what the saints have done, but images cannot give us the faith wherein all things must come to pass. If we now have pure and undefiled faith, see, we will ridicule ourselves for having had so ignorant and weak a faith that we imagined images admonish us when, in fact, everything without faith is in vain.”

2025-02-06 13:20

Tags: protection, consumption, reformation
Author, Title: John Ruskin_The Seven Lamps of Architecture

"The principle of modern times, (a principle which, I believe, at least in France, to be systematically acted on by the masons, in order to find themselves work, as the abbey of St. Ouen was pulled down by the magistrates of the town by way of giving work to some vagrants) is to neglect buildings first, and restore them afterwards. Take proper care of your monuments, and you will not need to restore them."

2025-02-07 16:33

Tags: heimat, local, global, politics
Author, Title: Bruno Latour_Der Planet rebelliert

"Realismus und Mut erteilen können. Wie man beim Vergleich der Teile von Reitz’ Heimat- Trilogie sieht, ließ sich die Lebenswelt – im Sinne der Welt, von
der man lebt – seit Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die 2000er- Jahre allmählich immer schwerer beschreiben. Das heißt nicht, dass man zur Heimat als Region oder Territorium zurückkehren wird; es heißt vielmehr, dass wir im Begriff
der Heimat ein gewaltiges Beschreibungspotenzial entdecken können, mit dem wir – in den Künsten wie in den Wissenschaften – arbeiten müssen, um diese beiden heute von ein an der getrennten Ensembles wieder aufeinander beziehen zu können: das, was unseren Lebensunterhalt ermöglicht, und das, was wir unseren legitimen Besitz nennen."

2025-02-05 16:53

Tags: intangible, local, global, material_culture
Author, Title: Laurajane Smith_Uses of Heritage

"If heritage is a mentality, a way of knowing and seeing, then all heritage becomes, in a sense, ‘intangible’. The issue of intangibility has been a significant one in Western heritage literature and debate in recent years. Some commentators assert that the increasing debate in the West about intangible heritage is due to a late twentieth-century re-evaluation of modernity, and an increasing concern with the local in response to fears of globalization (Deacon et al. 2004: 10; see also Berking 2003; Castells 2004). Non-Western conceptualizations of heritage have begun to question the hegemonic dominance of the idea of the materiality of heritage, and have come to play an important role in questioning received ideas about it. Challenges to Western traditional conceptualizations have occurred in response to specific events, such as the controversy and debate sparked by the ‘re-painting’ of rock art sites in Western Australia during the 1980s. In this case, Aboriginal custodians were accused of re-painting sites in ‘non-traditional’ ways and thus ‘destroying’ ancient rock art. The custodians countered that what was important, in terms of Aboriginal perspectives, was the maintenance of cultural practice and meaning. The act of re-painting was vital in keeping alive certain values and meaning in a way that the simple existence of the sites could not. The point here was that it was the practice and not the types of material used in that practice, or the site itself, that maintained meanings and cultural knowledge This event directly contradicts the ‘conserve as found’ ethos and questions the universality of the assumption that it is fabric that is important as heritage. However, challenges to these assumptions have also occurred through a general increased awareness in the West that other cultures, particularly from Africa and Asia, perceive heritage differently. For instance, invoking a sense of heritage similar to that in the re-painting debate, some Japanese historic buildings may be regularly and entirely rebuilt with modern materials and techniques without compromising their heritage values or sense of authenticity to the Japanese"

Title: Enlargement map of Barcelona
Author: Illdefons Cerda
Year: 1859
Source:

Tags: cartography, urbanism, politics, future