Swiss architect Roger Diener

"The architect scene has changed a lot since I was a young architect", explains the Swiss architect Roger Diener. "Today, young architects have to be much more focused and really concentrate on their work because the field is almost too open for them. While my generation of architect found the field too narrow, our challenge was fighting to extend the barriers."

Roger Diener took over the Swiss architecture practice his father founded. Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings and town plans, Diener and Diener have recently begun to design buildings that add a new lightness and liveliness to the geometric rigor and intellectual clarity that have always characterized their designs.

From Phaidon

Bruno Taut: Alpine Architecture

UNTIL 17.07.11

CIRCULO DE BELLAS ARTES, MADRID

Bruno Taut is one of the leading German Expressionist architects of the twentieth century. With utopian ideas, Taut was a visionary with his proposals for contemporary expressionist architecture of the time.

This exhibition is part of a long-term intervention undertaken by the CBA on the issueof utopian horizon. In collaboration with the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the exhibition focuses on the Alpine Architecture project, composed between 1917 and 1919, in which Bruno Taut explains his proposal to build a utopian city in the Alps.

The complex, consisting of 36 sketches that made the book, that had never been shown before in its entirety, certifies the permanence of a utopian vision in stone. A-theoretical production that can be described as an exercise in fantasy, an experienceor a spiritual journey.