Architect: Heinz Isler

Heinz Isler: Natural Hills on Different Edge Lines
14 November 2023

Heinz Isler: Natural Hills on Different Edge Lines14 November 2023

– John Chilton

I first encountered Heinz Isler’s thin reinforced concrete shells when I saw his presentation ‘Third Decade of Structural Shells’ at the thirtieth anniversary symposium of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), in Madrid, in September 1989. This was the first time I saw his inspirational drawing ‘Natural Hills on… Read More

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Drawing Construction: A Drawing Matter Workshop
29 March 2023

Drawing Construction: A Drawing Matter Workshop29 March 2023

– Niall Hobhouse, Manuel Montenegro and Amy Teh

This audio recording documents a workshop on construction drawings by architects architects and designers. It was delivered by Manuel Montenegro and Niall Hobhouse to Masters students from the School of Engineering and Architecture, Fribourg, and their tutors Patricia Guaita and Raffael Baur. The recording was made live in the Drawing… Read More

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Heinz Isler Model
2 November 2022

Heinz Isler Model2 November 2022

– John Chilton and Paul Shepherd

This text was written by Paul Shepherd. The interjections, in italic, are additions by his friend and Heinz Isler expert John Chilton. If you go down to the woods today… Since our son was away on Scout camp all weekend, my plans for Sunday involved a much-needed lie-in and an… Read More

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