Inventory of recent Swiss architecture

The spines of the complete book series

The inventory of newer Swiss architecture (French Inventaire Suisse d'Architecture , Italian Inventario Svizzero di Architettura ), mostly abbreviated INSA, is a non-fiction book series in eleven volumes, published by the Society for Swiss Art History (GSK); the editions appeared between 1982 and 2004 by Orell Füssli .

It encompasses the historical and, above all, the structural development of the most important Swiss cities between 1850 and 1920. All 26 canton capitals have been included in the INSA, plus the cities with over 10,000 inhabitants around 1920. The city articles are in the official language of the ones described City held.

The breakdown is based on streets. The eleventh volume - the register - enables the search for persons (architects and builders). Individual cities and cantons - such as Schaffhausen - financed offprints that appeared at the same time as the bound editions.

The creation of the mammoth work took a good 30 years, and it was mainly financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation . The book series is finished and will no longer be reprinted in book form. The revision of the individual cities is now only carried out individually, so that the reprints are only published as a brochure .

In 2010, the entire INSA series was digitized as part of the E-Periodica project and made freely accessible on the Internet.

Single volumes

• Volume 1: Aarau, Altdorf, Appenzell, Baden . Orell Füssli, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-280-01509-X
• Volume 2: Basel, Bellinzona, Bern . Ibid. 1986, ISBN 3-280-01716-5
• Volume 3: Biel, Chur, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Davos . Ibid. 1982, ISBN 3-280-01397-6
• Volume 4: Delémont, Frauenfeld, Friborg, Genève, Glarus . Ibid. 1982, ISBN 3-280-01398-4
• Volume 5: Grenchen, Herisau, Lausanne, Liestal . Ibid. 1990, ISBN 3-280-01982-6
• Volume 6: Locarno, Le Locle, Lugano, Lucerne . Ibid. 1991, ISBN 3-280-02058-1
• Volume 7: Montreux, Neuchâtel, Olten, Rorschach . Ibid. 2000, ISBN 3-280-02320-3
• Volume 8: St. Gallen, Sarnen, Schwyz, Schaffhausen . Ibid. 1996, ISBN 3-280-02410-2
• Volume 9: Sion, Solothurn, Stans, Thun, Vevey . Ibid. 2003, ISBN 3-280-05069-3
• Volume 10: Winterthur, Zurich, Zug . Ibid. 1992, ISBN 3-280-02180-4
• Volume 11: Register . Ibid. 2004, ISBN 3-280-05094-4

Special publications from the INSA volumes

• Bern , 2003, ISBN 3-280-05036-7
• Lucerne , 2003, ISBN 3-280-05070-7
• Olten , 2000, ISBN 3-85962-122-X
• Solothurn , 2003, ISBN 3-905470-18-7
• St. Gallen , 2003, ISBN 3-9520597-2-2
• Winterthur , 2001, ISBN 3-280-02818-3
• Zurich , 2001, ISBN 3-280-02817-5
• Zug , 2004, ISBN 3-280-05095-2

Web links

• INSA page on the GSK website
• Full text publication on E-Periodica