Bernina transversal. Guido Baselgia - Bearth und Deplazes - Architecture and Photography - Intervention and Reaction (English, German, Italian, Hardcover)

The unique convergence of architecture and landscape found on the Bernina Pass inspired Swiss photographer Guido Baselgia to create a visual epic. The result is a one-of-a-kind presentation of the new road maintenance base near Bernina Pass, designed by renowned Swiss firm Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, in a seemingly arctic winter landscape. Baselgia explored the territory along the road and railway line with his analogue camera. His images also draw a connection between the existing infrastructures for traffic and energy production - built over the course of the landscape's industrialisation and continued development since the late 19th century - to the architecture of the new maintenance base. A concavely curved shield wall topped by a round tower is all that is visible of this vast, purely functional, and largely underground space. The shield wall cuts a segment from the existing topography and thereby encloses a courtyard along with an area of the surrounding landscape. The tower refuses direct encoding - until entering the camera obscura at its very top, which connects photography, architecture, and landscape to reveal that this place is about insights and not outlooks. The book features a selection of Guido Baselgia's striking photographs and reproductions of camera obscura images from the tower in outstanding duotone reproduction and documents Bearth & Deplazes' architecture through concise texts, images, and selected plans. Text in English, German and Italian.

General

Imprint:	Park Books
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2021
Editors:	Bernina Glaciers
Dimensions:	300 x 300 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-860237-8
Languages:	English • German • Italian
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Individual photographers Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > General
LSN:	3-03-860237-X
Barcode:	9783038602378

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