Exit-Architecture. Design Between War and Peace: With a Foreword by Heiner Mühlmann and a Project by Exit Ltd.

by Stephan Trüby

First we shape things, then they shape us, was Churchilla (TM)s view. What kind of architecture can be said to shape? Who does it shape? And by what means does it shape? The authora (TM)s answers to these questions are a surprise. Through war and proximity to stress. After a tour da (TM)horizon through Roman temples, Washingtona (TM)s corridors of power and Meccaa (TM)s anti-panic architecture it becomes clear that architecture is anything but in the background. Instead it is situated in the hot spot of transmission dynamics and is capable of altering cultures, empires and even religions.

119 pages, Paperback

First published December 20, 2007

About the author

The research of Professor Trüby focuses primarily on the architecture and urban planning of the 20th and 21st centuries, in particular on the economics of architecture and urbanism, the elements and syntheses of the architectural space.
Professor Trüby studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London. Among his most important academic positions were a visiting professorship position in architecture at Karlsruhe College of Arts and Design, HfG, (2007-2009), heading the postgraduate spatial design program at Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK, (2009-2014) and being a lecturer at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University (2012-2014).
He was head of research of the architecture section of the 2014 Venice Biennale and is a regular contributor to the magazines ARCH+ and Archithese.