Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings

and town plans, the Swiss practice of Diener & Diener has

recently begun to design buildings that add a new lightness

and liveliness to the geometric rigor and intellectual clarity

that have always characterized their designs.

The only available monograph on the remarkable architecture

of this firm, this book covers more than 30 years of work.

Roger Diener has selected the key buildings and projects to

appear in the book. They are illustrated here with a wealth

of never-before published material from the firm's archives,

and described in detail by Sabine von Fischer. Included here

are the firm's most famous structures, such as the Novartis

Campus Forum 3 in Basel and the Swiss Embassy in Berlin,

but also smaller and less well-known but equally beautiful

projects like the 1998 Swiss Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book

Fair, as well as buildings currently under construction all

over Europe.

Two prominent architectural historians, Martin Steinmann and

Joseph Abram, have contributed essays on the intellectual

foundation of Diener & Diener's work, and Roger Diener's own

writings are also included. These incisive texts illuminate

the working processes of Diener & Diener, the partnerships

they have forged with artists, and the special relationship

that their work creates between architecture and the city.