Dolf Schnebli: One Year from Venice to India by the Land Route -1956 - Photographic Sketches - Hardcover

Schnebli, Dolf

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3721207009 ISBN 13: 9783721207002

Verlag: Niggli Verlag, 2009

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In 1955, Dolf Schnebli was awarded a Harvard travel scholarship which enabled him to travel overland for one year from Venice to India and back. With him were his wife Clarissa and a VW beetle. The purpose of his journey was to study at close hand architectural history, especially the urban development of old cities, ruins and excavations. In the process he not only learned a great deal about the founding of cities and history, he also got to know many different people. In his short statements he therefore not only describes what kind of architecture he saw, but also whom he met: Peasants who in spite of their extreme poverty, warmly welcomed Schnebli and his wife and helped them on their journey with advice and concrete assistance. They ran into soldiers and customs officials again and again - some were friendly and some corrupt or capricious. And there were other cultural tourists with whom one could converse about the sights, archaeologists and students who were also travelling in the Near or Far East. More than fifty years after his trip, after gathering dust as contact prints in his sketchbooks, Schnebli's black and white pictures are being published for the first time, attentively designed by the Zurich-based WBG AG for visual communication. Many of his observations which he recorded in the travel notes are still valid today. For instance, he was not permitted to travel to Israel, because he had too many visas from Arab countries in his passport, while in Syria at the border he was even instructed: 'Israel doesn't exist'.

Biografía del autor:

Dolf Schnebli studied architecture, first at the ETH Zurich and then in the USA. He graduated from Harvard under the direction of Josep Lluis Sert, in whose office he assisted, and had an office partnership with Walter Gropius. Started his teaching activity at the night school of the Boston Architectural Association. After an intense period of travel in the US and Europe, Schnebli opened his first architectural office, which thrived on the basis of successful competitions. Following this was an office partnership with Flora Ruchat-Roncati and realisation of buildings like Scuola Svizzera Naples, Ginnasio Cantonale Locarno, building of the Aecole Polytechnique Lausanne, buildings for SwissRe, the entire refurbishment of Kunsthaus Zurich, and the University building in St. Louis, Missouri.

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• Verlag: Niggli Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 3721207009
• ISBN 13: 9783721207002
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272