Public Records Office Canton Basel-Landschaft
Switzerland
© Hannes Henz
We aim to produce architecture that is powerful and personal, architecture with the capability of developing its own character. As a result our projects may polarize the public, which is fine with us. One may love or hate our architecture, but one should never be left indifferent.
As post-idealistic children of the 1968-generation, we do not recognise a single great truth, but find in the fractures of reality a ground in which to anchor architecture. This is the radicalism that we derived from Venturi’s ‘both-and’ principle. But both-and should not be mistaken as being arbitrary or indecisive. Behind and within it lies the problematic recognition of equitable values, and a longing for an architecture that renounces all dogma, opening itself to the freedom of possibility.
- Category
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- Architects
- Locations
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Zürich, Switzerland
- Berlin
- Employees
- 80
- Website
- www.em2n.ch
- Founded
- 1997