Project Description
The book is the first monograph on Swiss architect Raphael Zuber. It presents four buildings designed between 2009 and 2016, exploring their spaces through the medium of precise computer animation, frame by frame, creating a printed cinematic experience. Rather than simply a presentation technique, these animations were an essential instrument both for the development of the project and the evolution of the architect`s thinking, transitioning from a strong conceptual design to a more conscious resolution of spatial qualities.
The series of duotone stills is counterbalanced by banal yet beautiful objects scanned and printed in a 1:1 scale, a depiction as close as possible to reality. The virtual and the real are enhanced by a deep black background.
A provocation for book makers, the object itself is an artefact with the shape of a brick, and comes in limited edition: a Regular Edition and a signed Collector`s Edition.
Texts by Samuel Penn and Raphael Zuber
Book design by Alin Cincă and Raphael Zuber