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Günther Vogt (ed.)

Wunderlust/Wanderkammer

A Wunderkammer is a classification device that emphatically resists classification. It occupies a liminal netherworld between furniture and room, between the natural and the artificial, between the intimate and the universal. This collection, like the Wunderkammer it considers, is neither monograph, nor catalog, nor book. In three volumes—Collecting, Recording, and Translating—this hybrid collection considers the content and ethos of a Wunderkammer designed by Case Studio VOGT.

COLLECTING

Engaging directly with the physical world, picking up specimens, living or not, bringing them home and organizing them, rationally or not. Discovering ever more tangential relations between them.

RECORDING

Putting the tools, methods, and devices that mediate our perception of the landscape to work in the context of field trips. Acknowledging and harnessing the subjective human experience of landscape.

TRANSLATING

Instrumentalizing idiosyncratic learnings and insights, uncovering the febrile connections between them, and building the common ground upon which they may experience the most unsuspected yet productive and specific syntheses.

A Wunderkammer is a classification device that emphatically resists classification. It occupies a liminal netherworld between furniture and room, between the natural and the artificial, between the intimate and the universal. This collection, like the Wunderkammer it considers, is neither monograph, nor catalog, nor book. In three volumes—Collecting, Recording, and Translating—this hybrid collection considers the content and ethos of a Wunderkammer designed by Case Studio VOGT.

COLLECTING

Engaging directly with the physical world, picking up specimens, living or not, bringing them home and organizing them, rationally or not. Discovering ever more tangential relations between them.

RECORDING

Putting the tools, methods, and devices that mediate our perception of the landscape to work in the context of field trips. Acknowledging and harnessing the subjective human experience of landscape.

TRANSLATING

Instrumentalizing idiosyncratic learnings and insights, uncovering the febrile connections between them, and building the common ground upon which they may experience the most unsuspected yet productive and specific syntheses.

Author(s): Mara Katherine Smaby, Nicola Eiffler, Nicole la Hausse de Lalouvière

Edited by Günther Vogt

With essays by Mara Katherine Smaby and Rebecca Bornhauser

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

296 pages, 367 illustrations

3 cardboard folders with 62 cards, a book with 168 pages, and 2 leporellos

2016, 978-3-03778-489-1, English
Landscape Architecture Urban Development Public Space
CHF 98.00

Günther Vogt

Günther Vogt was born 1957 in Liechtenstein. His training at Gartenbauschule Oeschberg provided the practical basis for his intensive landscape work. His knowledge of vegetation and his skills in cultivation continue to be the cornerstones of his work. His studies with Peter Erni, Jürg Altherr and Dieter Kienast at Interkantonales Technikum Rapperswil combined the disciplines of culture, design, and natural sciences. In 2000 his office VOGT Landscape Architects emerged from the partnership with Dieter Kienast, with current branches in Berlin, London and Paris. The firm gained international recognition through projects such as the Tate Modern in London, Allianz Arena in Munich, or the Masoala Rainforest Hall at the Zurich Zoo. The work is characterized by a strong design attitude across scales, the cross-disciplinary exchange and fruitful cooperation with artist. From 2005 to 2022, GŸnther Vogt headed the Chair of Landscape Architecture at the ETH Zurich. In 2012 he was visiting professor at Havard Graduate School of Design and was awarded the Prix Meret Oppenheim by the Federal Office of Culture. As a passionate collector and keen traveler, he is looking for ways to read, interpret, and describe landscapes, and finding answers to questions about future forms of urban coexistence.

CHF 98.00