Georges Addor’s Housing Complexes: an Observatory on the Conservation of “Large-Scale” Heritage

Abstract
The timeliness of swiss architect Georges Addor's oeuvre is indeed vast and heterogeneous. Illuminated by a few successful operations, which should be showcased as such, the picture is, however, highly nuanced, since many questionable conversions have hurriedly followed each other in recent years. The broader reflections on the methods and techniques of preservation of the contemporary heritage that emerge from the current relevance of Georges Addor's work appear to be decisive; extended to a broader production, they deserve to be addressed without delay

Keywords
Modern Movement, Modern architecture, Modern housing, Mass housing, Post-war housing, George Addor, Swiss modern architecture.

Issue 54
Year 2016
Pages 10-15
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.52200/54.A.VCIQ8OP5

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