Christian Kerez

PLEASE NOTE! The exibition will be closed Sunday 26th October 2008. The Swiss architect Christian Kerez (1962, Maracaibo, Venezuela) is an intellectual who builds in a very concrete, research-based and cautious manner. This is perhaps why he takes the invisible dimension of architecture as the basis for his first solo exhibition abroad. The title of the exhibition is an explicit reference to facts and processes in architecture as a discipline. It concerns data that are rarely made public: construction plans, the relationship with clients and the media, and also personal obsessions. On the basis of four projects at different locations within our building, Kerez offers an insight into his daily practice. He does this in the first place in the form of the large models he is well known for, often on a scale of 1 to 10. He also uses engineers' plans, sketches and film excerpts. In addition to the two houses - 'Forsterstrasse' (Zürich, 2003) and 'HmeW' (house with one wall, Wittikon/Zürich, 2006) - and the 'Leutschenbach' school building (Oerlikon/Zürich, 2009), he also presents his winning competition entry for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (to be built in 2012). Kerez studied at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, where he has also been a professor since 2001. In 2006 his work was exhibited both in Lausanne and Basel.