Time has passed since 1980, when Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron built the small house painted in Klein blue, and also since 1999, year of their first AV issue. With almost fifty years of experience, the studio founded by Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron in their home town of Basel is now an international practice with seven offices around the world and a project count that well exceeds the six-hundred mark. But far from falling into repetition, their language continues to reinvent itself, and if the Rossian laconism of their early works gave way to the sumptuous skins of the nineties, the new century ushered in an era of icons, and today they combine their distinctive material refinement with innovative solutions that care about the present and the future. All this is brought together in this fifth volume of AV Monographs, which covers the firm’s last seven years in a chronological journey through works as forward-looking as the Children’s Hospital in Zurich, landmarks like M+ in Hong Kong, and inventive projects like HORTUS in Allschwil. The issue closes with a commentary on the major retrospective held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. All accompanied by circumstantial essays by Luis Fernández-Galiano.

Order AV Monografías 268-269