Georg Nickisch Selina Walder   Switzerland   An old Swiss hut is used as a formwork for the upper floor of this new holiday shelter; only the stairs jut out of this initial pure volume to access the basement floor, which is illuminated through a gap between the rock and the concrete house.

Valerio Olgiati   Switzerland   A thousand meters above sea level, in a mountain area famous for its ski resort, a former mansion plastered in yellow was scheduled to be demolished. Rudolf Olgiati, a local architect who had been gathering together objects of the area’s traditional