A thousand peaks, 150 valleys, 615 lakes, 3 official languages spoken by just under 200,000 inhabitants, 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and of course the 60,000 slabs of Vals quartzite from which Peter Zumthor built the Therme Vals in 1996. The southeastern Canton of Grisons could be described with these figures.

Daniel Reisch, an architect who works and teaches in Augsburg, is concerned with figures as little as he is with the grey-blue gneiss. As a publisher, the lecturer from the Faculty of Architecture and Building worked intensively with the students from the elective course “Regional Identity: Building in Grisons” to produce the new book Concrete Buildings in Grisons.

He is right. the 153 clear, attractive pages designed by strobo B M of Munich show 20 projects - documented in text, images and uniformly drawn plans - that demonstrate just how well concrete buildings fit into the stony, grey rock formations of the mountain landscape.

Author: Andrea Deplazes, Daniel Reisch, Armando Ruinelli

Publisher: DETAIL

ISBN: 9783955534882