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Table of contents:
Introduction
Lifted off the ground
Lacaton and Vassal, House in Lège, Cap-Ferret, France, 1998
Herzog and de Meuron, House in Leymen, Ht. Rhin, France, 1996-1997
Eduardo Souto de Moura, Two Houses in Ponte de Lima, Portugal, 2001-2002
Bernard Tschumi Architects, Factory 798, Beijing, China, 2003
Embedded in the ground
Dominique Perrault, Villa One, Côtes d'Armor, France, 1992-1995
Future Systems, House in Wales, United Kingdom, 1994
André Poitiers, Sports hall, Halstenbek, Germany, 1993
Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós, Igualada Cemetery, Igualada, Spain, 1985-1991
Kolatan MacDonald, Raybould House and garden, Connecticut, USA, 1997
Bernd Kniess Architekten und Stadtplaner, Sonic Polder, Cologne, Germany, 2001
NL Architects, BasketBar, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 2000-2003
Raised ground
Dominique Perrault, Velodrome and Swimming Centre, Berlin, Germany, 1998-1999
West8, Schouwbourg Plein, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1992-1997
Jones, Partners: Architecture, Sub'burb 2025, USA, 2000
Smith-Miller Hawkinson, Colorado Springs Academy School District 20, Colorado, USA, 2003
Next Enterprise, Lakeside Baths, Caldaro, Italy, 2003-2006
Stacked ground
MVRDV, Pig City, study, The Netherlands, 2000-2001
Pich-Aguilera Arquitectos, Garden Towers, Barcelona, Spain, 2001
TR Hamzah and Ken Yeang, The Nagoya Expo 2005 Tower, Seto City, Nagoya, Japan, 1997
EM2N Architekten, Schreberkicken, study, Zurich, Switzerland, 2003
MVRDV, Metacity/Datatown, The Netherlands, 1998-2000
Inflated ground
Zaha Hadid Architects, Cardiff Opera House, Wales, United Kingdom, 1994
Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Potsdam Speicherstadt, Potsdam, Germany, 2002
MVRDV, Silicon Hill, competition for the Sweden Post Headquarters, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000
Jean Nouvel, Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain, 2000
Wingardh Arkitektkontor AB, Landmark for Northern Europe, Östersund, Sweden, 2003
Wingardh Arkitektkontor AB, Öijared Executive Country Club, Lerum, Sweden, 1986-1988
R and Sie, Asphalt Spot, Tokamashi, Japan, 2003
Vectorial ground
NL Architects, Parkhouse/Carstadt, parking ramp, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995
EM2N Architekten, Hardbrücke, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002
J Mayer H, Seasonscape, Ascona, Switzerland, 1997
Reiser+Umemoto, East River Corridor Project, Manhattan, New York, USA, 1998
FOA, Ewha Women's University Campus Centre, South Korea, 2004
Carved ground
Christian Kerez, Extension to Freudenberg Canton School, Zurich, Switzerland, 2002
MVRDV, KM3/The 3-D City, research and design for 3D city, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1999-2002
Ashton Raggatt McDougall, Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne, Australia, 2003
The Next Enterprise (+ Florian Haydn), Private indoor swimming pool, Vienna, Austria, 1997-2001
José Antonio Martínez Lapeña, Elías Torres, Escalators, Toledo, Spain, 1997-2000
Exposed ground
Eduardo Souto de Moura, Stadium in Braga, Portugal, 2000-2003
Vicente Guallart, Denia Mountain project, Denia, Spain, 2002
Herzog and de Meuron, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland, 2003
Zaha Hadid Architects, The Peak, Hong Kong, China, 1982-1983
Tezuka Architects, Natural History Museum, Matsunoyama, Japan, 2001-2003
Dominique Perrault, French National Library, Paris, France, 1989-1995
Inscribed ground
Zaha Hadid Architects, Hoenheim-Nord Terminus, Strasbourg, France, 2001
West8, Landscape design for the eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier, The Netherlands, 1990
Caruso St. John and Eva Löfdahl, Stortorget, Kalmar, Sweden, 2003
RCR, Tussols-Basil athletics track, Olot, Spain, 1991-2001
Allmann Sattler Wappner, Headquarters of the Employers Assoc. Metalworking Industry, Reutlingen, Germany, 2001
Peter Eisenman, City of Culture of Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, 1999
The Palm, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2005
Photographic credits
Acknowledgements
Groundscapes explores the 'comeback' of the idea of the ground onto the scene of contemporary architecture. With the decline of heroic modernism in the late 1960s a new generation of architects eager to discover this forbidden land initiated a reterritorialisation of architecture which continues today. As a consequence, we can understand built space and ground space no longer as opposites but as equal elements of the architectural body.
Ilka Ruby is an architect and Andreas Ruby is an architectural critic and theorist. Since founding their office textbild in 2001 they have been committed to a cultural engineering of the discourse on contemporary architecture, writing texts, designing books, curating exhibitions, consulting architects and organising architectural symposia for a wide array of cultural and corporate clients. Their publications include Images. A Picture Book of Architecture (Prestel, 2004), The Challenge of Suburbia (Wiley-Academy, 2004) and Hans Scharoun: Haus Moeller (Walther Koenig, 2004). They have been teaching architecture at a variety of universities in Europe. Currently they are visiting critics at Cornell University. For more information see www.textbild.com
