Living on high ground. Organic traditions: from Frédéric Brugger's La Borde towers (1961-1968) to contemporary achievements.
Folio| N° d'inventaire | 18952 |
| Format | 23 x 28 |
| Détails | 160 p., black and white and color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2014 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The Borde Towers (1961-1968) are one of the most exemplary cooperative projects of subsidized housing in the Lausanne context of the second post-war period. Part of the "action to encourage the construction of social housing" launched by the public authorities during a period of great shortage of low-rent housing, they confirmed the reputation of one of the best architects who practiced in Lausanne during the second half of the 20th century: Frédéric Brugger. The study of the Borde Towers, based on partly unpublished archives, illustrates a specific mode of living "on high ground", this "neighborhood unit" stemming from a logic that seeks to achieve high densities through the construction of tall buildings, a judicious choice that gave rise, in those years, to lively debates and which, curiously, is still the subject of intense discussions today. Finally, through the monographic study of the Borde towers, the quality of an organically inspired achievement is highlighted and put into perspective, anchored in the wake of the humanist trajectories of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Hans Scharoun, Otto Senn and Ernst Gisel, architects to whom Frédéric Brugger frequently referred and who are still a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.
The Borde Towers (1961-1968) are one of the most exemplary cooperative projects of subsidized housing in the Lausanne context of the second post-war period. Part of the "action to encourage the construction of social housing" launched by the public authorities during a period of great shortage of low-rent housing, they confirmed the reputation of one of the best architects who practiced in Lausanne during the second half of the 20th century: Frédéric Brugger. The study of the Borde Towers, based on partly unpublished archives, illustrates a specific mode of living "on high ground", this "neighborhood unit" stemming from a logic that seeks to achieve high densities through the construction of tall buildings, a judicious choice that gave rise, in those years, to lively debates and which, curiously, is still the subject of intense discussions today. Finally, through the monographic study of the Borde towers, the quality of an organically inspired achievement is highlighted and put into perspective, anchored in the wake of the humanist trajectories of Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, Hans Scharoun, Otto Senn and Ernst Gisel, architects to whom Frédéric Brugger frequently referred and who are still a source of inspiration for contemporary architecture.