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'Despite its substantial size, this overdue monograph [...] achieves its aims without one word too many. The disproportion between the significance of this Swiss practice and its laconic coverage in the English language has made this volume a matter of urgent necessity. ... The present monograph is conceived as any of the practice's projects: with consideration towards the conventions of the genre, and a commitment to unostentatious substance.' Building Design

Despite its substantial size, this overdue monograph [...] achieves its aims without one word too many. The disproportion between the significance of this Swiss practice and its laconic coverage in the English language has made this volume a matter of urgent necessity... The present monograph is conceived as any of the practice's projects: with consideration towards the conventions of the genre, and a commitment to unostentatious substance. - Building Design

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Roger Diener is the principle of Diener & Diener, the architecture firm established by his father, Marcus Diener, in 1948. He has taught at ETH Zurich, where he is a tenured professor for architecture and design, since 1999, and he has been a visiting professor at Harvard s Graduate School for Design, the School of Architecture in Vienna, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has won the Medaille d Or from the Academie Fran ais among many other awards, and his work and his writings have both been published exensively. Joseph Abram is a Swiss author and architectural historian who has written widely on modernist architecture. He is a professor at the Ecole nationale superieure d'architecture de Nancy in France. Martin Steinmann is an architect and architectural historian. He is a professor of architecture at ETH Zurich and has taught at ETH Lausanne and MIT in Cambridge. He has written extensively on Swiss modernist architecture and particularly on the Ticino region.

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