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

Martin Steinmann   Jacques Lucan   This text is an excerpt from the conversation between the French Jacques Lucan and the Swiss Martin Steinmann regarding ‘A Matter of Art’, an exhibition on current Swiss architecture held at the Centre Culturel Suisse of Paris in the spring of 2001.

Architecture is one of the few professions that still is – in the best artisan tradition – passed on from parents to their children. After finishing his studies in Zürich’s ETH, Valerio Olgiati (1958) of Chur had immediate professional experience wor