La Congiunta
La Congiunta is a museum on the outskirts of Giornico in Leventina in Ticino and was built between 1989 and 1992 according to the plans of Peter Märkli and Stefan Bellwalder.
The key to the museum can be picked up at the Giornico restaurant (091/864 22 15) in Giornico.
architecture
The unadorned structure refers to the interior, the building gives no indication of its content. Bands in the roof area serve as a light source for the interior. Inside, the focus is on the sculptures, there are no disruptive facilities. It is a sequence of three main rooms, but at different heights. The last room is extended by four chambers.
museum
The building was specially designed for the art of the Swiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn . It contains around 30 reliefs and half-figures from the period 1950 to 1991.
Honourings and prices
- 1995: 1st prize for new building in the Alps
- 1997: Concrete architecture prize
- 2008: Ernst A. Plischke Prize - recognition
Filmography
- 2012: Museo La Congiunta, Giornico by Peter Märkli Architect
literature
- Kunsthaus Bregenz (ed.): La Congiunta Foundation . Peter Märkli - House for reliefs and half-figures by the sculptor Hans Josephson, Hatje, Stuttgart 1994.
- Mayr Fingerle, Christoph (Ed.): New building in the Alps / Architettura contemporanea alpina. Architecture Prize 1995 / Premio d'architettura 1995 . Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 1996.
- Simona Martinoli and others: Guida d'arte della Svizzera italiana , (ed. GSK), Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona 2007, ISBN 978-88-7713-482-0 , p. 120.
- Andrew Montgomery, Markus Breitschmid, (Eds.): La Congiunta at Giornico - Peter Märkli . Architecture Case Studies Series, Volume 6, Corporis Publisher for Architecture, Art, and Photography, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9802274-1-3 (English)
Web links
- La Congiunta website
- Text about the museum
- List of works with illustrations
- Article about La Congiunta
- Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, Dec. 1992, editorial and pp. 30–35 (pdf)
Coordinates: 46 ° 24 '20.3 " N , 8 ° 52' 13.5" E ; CH1903: 710,096 / 140368
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.museums.ch/org/de/Museo-Hans-Josephsohn
- ↑ Museo La Congiunta | ticino.ch. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
- ↑ property details - Beton.org. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
- ^ Museo La Congiunta, Giornico by Peter Märkli Architect. In: YouTube. VernissageTV, January 18, 2012, accessed on August 20, 2020 (German).