Swiss Architecture Museum
 Building of the Kunsthalle Basel |
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| place | Basel (Steinenberg 7) |
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| architect | Peter Märkli (interior renovation) |
| opening | 1984 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 34,424 (2018) |
| management |
S AM Foundation Swiss Architecture Museum, Andreas Ruby (Dir.)
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The Swiss Architecture Museum (S AM) in Basel deals with the international debates on architecture and urbanism as well as their socio-political aspects in changing exhibitions and events . The museum also issues publications, and there are accompanying events for each exhibition.
history
The "Architekturmuseum AM" was founded in 1984 as a foundation. It originally occupied four floors of the Domus House, built in 1958 by the architects Rasser and Vadi , which is one of the rare examples of modern architecture from the 1950s in Basel. In 2004 the museum moved to the Kunsthalle Basel . In 2006 the "Architecture Museum AM" was renamed "S AM Swiss Architecture Museum".
Directors
- Ulrike Jehle Schulte-Strathaus (founding director, until 2006)
- Francesca Ferguson (2006-2009)
- Hubertus Adam (2013-2015)
- Andreas Ruby (since 2016)
Exhibitions
Since its inception, the museum has put on around 150 exhibitions and countless accompanying events in the form of lectures, panel discussions, talks, workshops, guided tours and numerous publications accompanying the exhibition.
Exhibitions by the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum (selection)
- 2019 Swim City
- 2018 Sense of density - forms of urban coexistence in Switzerland
- 2017 Bengal Stream
- 2017 in country out of country
- 2017 throughout Switzerland
- 2015 Bernhard Tschumi
- 2014 Young Swiss Architects
- 2013 Luginsland. Architecture with a view
- 2012 City Inc.
- 2011 The Object of Zionism
- 2010 Richard Neutra
- 2009 Madelon Vriesendorp
- 2008 Balkanology
Exhibitions by the Architekturmuseum AM (selection)
- 2005 Zaha Hadid
- 2000 Peter Märkli
- 1997 New building in the Alps
- 1993 Rafael Moneo
- 1992 Livio Vacchini
- 1989 Frank O. Gehry
- 1988 Herzog & de Meuron
- 1988 Office for Metropolitan Architecture
- 1987 Le Corbusier and Raoul La Roche
- 1984 Jean Prouvé
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '13.8 " N , 7 ° 35' 27" E ; CH1903: 611,457 / two hundred and sixty-seven thousand and twenty-four