Swissness Applied: Learning from New GlarusPaperback, 4 April 2022

Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus
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Print Length
220 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Park Publishing (WI)
Date Published
4 Apr 2022
ISBN-10
3038602442
ISBN-13
9783038602446

Description

A unique and fascinating transcultural study on the role of imagery and appropriation in architecture and urban planning.

Founded by Swiss settlers in 1845, New Glarus in Wisconsin evolved from being a dairy farming and cheese production village to a popular tourist destination. Following a grave economic downturn in the 1960s and 1970s, the community discovered embracing the image of its cultural heritage, particularly traditional architectural details, as a way of survival. Consequently, they began to change their commercial building façades to appear even more Swiss. Since 1999, the town has even regulated the production of new buildings via its building codes to preserve this particular aesthetic evoking the familiar traditional Swiss chalet style.

Swissness Applied investigates the transformation of European immigrant towns in the United States, exemplified by New Glarus. It features the results of extensive fieldwork on buildings in the village as well as design projections based on the local building code and evaluates the outcomes through different representation techniques. Expert authors including Courntey Coffman, Kurt Forster, Whitney Moon, Philip Ursprung, and Jesús Vassallo contribute essays that pick up on aspects such as the role of cultural imagery and immigration history in architecture, and on Swissness as a cultural concept in particular.

Product Details

Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
4 April 2022
Dimensions:
30 x 23.01 x 2.39 cm
Genre:
Urban
ISBN-10:
3038602442
ISBN-13:
9783038602446
Language:
English
Pages:
220
Publisher:
Park Publishing (WI)
Weight:
1202.02 gm

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