Swissness Applied

We are honored to be the 2024 moderators for the Laskey Charette at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. The kick-off lecture is February 16 at 5:30pm.

The weekend charette and award are endowed by Studio L in honor of professor emeritus Leslie Laskey (1921-2021).

Friends, we are honored to be the 2024 moderators for the Laskey Charette at Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. The kick-off lecture is February 16 at 5:30pm.

The weekend charette and award are endowed by Studio L in honor of Leslie Laskey (1921-2021).

Join us Friday, February 16, at 5:30 p.m., for a lecture with Nicole McIntosh and Jonathan Louie, leaders of Architecture Office, a Zurich-based Swiss American practice. Their research and design are influenced by images that create new contexts for architecture. Their office engages with a variety of scales and typologies, ranging from restaurants and workspaces to exhibition design and houses. Recent work has been exhibited at the Yale Architecture Gallery, the Kunsthaus Glarus, and the 2021 Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism. As educators, they are the 2023-24 Hyde Chair of Excellence at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Their contributions to design and research have been awarded by the Architectural League Young Architect’s Prize (2017), ACSA Faculty Design Award (2020), and the Swiss Art Awards (2022). Built projects have been recognized by Architects Newspaper Best of Design Awards (2018, 2019), Interior Design Best of Year Awards (2020), and the Frame Awards (2018). And their most recent publication “Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus” won the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Architectural Book Award (2022). This event is part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series and is free and open to the public. The lecture will take place in Steinberg Hall. Free parking is available in the East End Garage beginning at 5:00 p.m. Enter the garage from Forsyth Boulevard or Forest Park Parkway. For more details about McIntosh and Louie, and additional upcoming events, visit link in bio. @_architectureoffice

Cafe for Brooklyn Cannery

Brooklyn Cannery is a small batch soda company that produces prebiotic drinks, and is looking to build a cafe presence to promote gut health in their community. Our design for the neighborhood drink factory modernizes the classic soda fountain by giving shape to the graphics of their branding for the point of sale for food and drink.

Cafe Prototype and Phasing Strategy
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Cafe for Brooklyn Cannery
Prototype cafe and event space.

The cannery packages and produces a line of prebiotic sodas, and is looking to build a cafe presence to promote gut health in their community. Our design modernizes the classic soda fountain by giving shape to the graphics of their branding for the point of sale for food and drink.

Looking forward to building this one day.

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Architecture Office is honored to share that Nicole and Jonathan are the Hyde Chair of Excellence at University of Nebraska College of Architecture () this year.

This fall we will teach a Graduate Studio and Seminar on the Swiss chocolate factory.

Image 1. Advertisement for Fabbrica di Cioccolato Cima Norma S.A, early 20th Century

Image 2. Except from Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.”

Image 3. Advertisement for Fabriques Suchard et château de Beauregard à Serrières, 1900

Image 4. Photograph of the Lindt & Sprungli factory in Horgen, taken in 1859. The factory was near a water source, the Lake of Zurich, to expand their production capacity.

John Hill reviews 'Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus' for world architects. He writes:

'Normally, for this reviewer, the success of a book about a particular place is gauged by its ability to instill a desire to go and see the place in person. This book, while it does not do that, doesn’t have to: its emphasis on the role of images in constructing a place means that seeing images of New Glarus is sufficient. Those images in their multifarious nature (old and new, Switzerland and America, drawings and models, buildings both real and imagined) provide plenty to learn from, though they also spark a lot of joy — not an easy feat in an architecture book.'

From Switzerland to Wisconsin: The Curious Case of New Glarus - The award-winning book Swissness Applied focuses its attention on New Glarus, the tiny Wisconsin town whose downtown buildings draw tourists through facades...

We’re honored that Swissness Applied is a winner of the 14th annual ‘DAM Architectural Book Award’ hosted by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum () and Frankfurt Buchmesse ( )

Publisher: Park Books
Graphic Designer: Luis Vassallo
Associate Editor: Courtney Coffman
Photography of New Glarus: Brian Griffin

Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus is amongst incredible company on the Metropolis Magazine summer / fall 2022 reading list.

Park Books

9 Books to Add to Your Architecture and Design Reading List - Metropolis Metropolis editors select the best summer and fall books from the top art, architecture, and design publishers.

Historian Philip Denny reviews ‘Swissness Applied: Learing from New Glarus’ in the May issue of Architects Newspaper (including a front page photograph by Brian Griffin).

The curious case of a Wisconsin canton and its “Swiss” architecture Swissness Applied: Learning from New Glarus explores the reconstruction and appropriation of cultural imaginaries through architecture.

Wonderful review of Swissness Applied by Susanna Koeberle for Swiss Architects.

Read in German or translate with DeepL.

Über das Herstellen von Heimat in der Architektur - Das Buch «Swissness Applied. Learning from New Glarus» fasst die Recherche zusammen, die Nicole McIntosh und Jonathan Louie in New Glarus (USA) unternahmen....