Roger Boltshauser
Roger Boltshauser
SWITZERLAND - In his work, Roger Boltshauser is the opposite of hip and trendy. He explains to Axel Simon why he prefers what others might consider unfashionable or anachronistic values in architecture.
Biography
Roger Boltshauser was born in Zürich in 1964. He studied architecture in Lucerne and at the ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and founded his own practice in Zürich in 1996. For the first few years, he also worked as a research assistant at the Institut für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur (gta: Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture) of the ETH Zürich, and as Peter Märkli’s design assistant at the ETH Zürich and the EPF Lausanne. Boltshauser has been a lecturer in design at the Hochschule für Technik and Wirtschaft (HTW: University of Technology and Economics) in Chur since 2004 and at the Chur Institute of Architecture (CIA) since 2005. In 2007 he was accepted as a member of the Federation of Swiss Architects (BSA).
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Roger Boltshauser: The topics we discuss [in A Primer to Space] are the basis for my work. I see them in architecture everywhere, in Antiquity, in the Middle Ages, in Modernism. To me they have a timeless verity. They are about the spatial aspects of architecture, about working in and with space – the space of landscape, of the city, of the house – even about the influence of a detail on a space. Architecture is always about spatial sensations, spatial constellations. However, no book that I know of has ever expanded upon this. Someone discusses space on the urban design level; someone else does so with reference to a work of architecture or to colour. To me it was important to try to describe the entire range of the phenomenon of space. My point of view starts out very much from the human being, from our perception of space, from the way we move in space and function physically – for example, the fact that for us there is an above and below, a front and a back. Applying this to architecture generates regularities, rules that can be traced throughout the entire history of architecture.
Architecture, Theory
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