Darwin's Theatre: BABL at Work

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Front cover image Darwin's Theatre BABL at Work Edited by Marco Bakker & Alexandre Blanc Not yet printed due - 01/19 9783038601302 Hardback Park Books Territory: UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, South America Size: 310 mm x 230 mm Pages: 608 Illustrations: 250 colour, 250 b&w RRP GBP70.00 First monograph on the work and vision of the remarkable Swiss firm BABL The book's unique concept reflects BABL's evolutionary approach Marco Bakker and Alexandre Blanc established BABL in Switzerland in 1992. Their designs are marked by modesty in manner and attitude, yet reflecting their own high demands to the built environment. In their buildings and projects, BABL aim to refine wide-ranging references and to lay narrative trails. Darwin's Theatre: BABL at Work documents some twenty-five years of work by the firm and demonstrates their approach and vision through a selection of thirty-four built and unrealised designs. Inspired by Pieter Bruegel the Elder's famous painting of the Tower of Babel, the book is conceived as a chronological spiral stairway to heaven that represents an evolution of eternal reiterating questions considering constructed continuities in space and time.

Marco Bakker and Alexandre Blanc are the founding-partners of BABL Bakker et Blanc Architects Associes and jointly teach as Associate Professors at EPFL's School of Architecture in Lausanne.