Kantonsschule Menzingen KSM : denkmalpflegerische Erneuerung : Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten = Menzingen Cantonal School KSM : refurbishing architectural heritage : Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten / Gerold Kunz [and five others].

Luzern : Quart, [2023]

©2023

183 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 30 cm

Texts in German and English.

The former Bernarda teacher training college in Menzingen was built between 1955 and 1958 by the two renowned Zug architectural teams of Hanns A. Brütsch and Alois Stadler, and Leo Hafner and Alfons Wiederkehr. The school on a gentle slope in the midst of the attractive landscape between Lake Zug and Lake Zurich is an exceptional example of 1950s Swiss architecture. The facility impresses with its staging of the exposed location, the coherent arrangement of five highly individualised buildings around a circular centre, and the notable design of the open spaces by Ernst Kramer.0Between 2017 and 2019, the facility was renovated and extended in exemplary fashion by the Zurich architectural team Bünzli & Courvoisier. On the one hand, the project is strongly orientated towards the urban-planning and architectural design principles of the existing building. On the other, the architects develop the existing structures further like a collage, thereby giving the school a respectfully staged, extended dramatic quality. 0The book documents the existing facility with original plans and the clear-contoured, black & white pictures by the renowned Lucerne photographer Peter Ammon. Furthermore, the volume extensively reflects upon and documents in detail the school?s exciting, exemplary renovation.

Menzingen Cantonal School KSM : refurbishing architectural heritage : Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten

German; English

April 17, 2024

Includes bibliographical references.