
Les échelles de la réalité
Martin Steinmann in
conversation with
Christian Kerez
EPF Lausanne, 2006





















Porto Seguro Social Housing, Paraisopolis Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009-2013
Plywood Model 1:50



Oberrealta Chapel, Grisons, Switzerland, 1992
Photos Christian Kerez






Bahrain Parking for the Pearl Path, Muharraq, Bahrain, 2017-2020
Plot A 17500 m2,Plot B 7500 m2, Plot C 7000 m2, Plot D 7000 m2, Plot E 14500 m2





House with a Lakeview, Thalwil, Switzerland, 2006–2013
Photos Mikael Olsson, 2015





Three Museums and a Square, Competition, Guangzhou, China, 2013
Interior Model, 1:200





EWZ Power Plant, Zürich, Switzerland, 2015-2016
Competition
Structural Model, Wood, 1:33







Apartment Building on Forsterstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland, 1999-2003





Bahrain Parking for the Pearl Path, Muharraq, Bahrain, 2017-2020
Concept Model, Plot D, Scan 1:200





Bahrain Parking for the Pearl Path, Muharraq, Bahrain, 2017-2020
Contour Lines, Plot C, L1-L2-L3-L0





House with a Missing Column, Zürich, Switzerland, 2009-2014
Construction Site, 2013





Homage to Borromini, 2018
Collage











Office Building Europa-Allee, Site B, Zürich, Switzerland, 2011
Competition











Pictographs - Statements of Contemporary Architects
Exhibition by Valerio Olgiati at Venice Biennale, 2012








Apartment Building on Forsterstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland, 1999–2003
Photos Christian Kerez, 2006





Office Building, Lyon Confluence Ilot A3, Lyon, France, 2013-2018
Photos Maxime Delvaux, 2018

Conflicts Politics
Construction Privacy Obsession.
Materials on the Work of Christian Kerez
Texts Marcel Andino Velez, Tibor Joanelly and Hans Frei
Moritz Küng (ed.), deSingel international arts campus
Antwerp, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2008











AA 390 – FOCUS section


















Swiss Pavilion, Biennale di Architettura, Venice, Italy, 2016.
Tomography Scan, Model 181

Christian Kerez: 2000 – 2009
fundamentos arquitectonicos /
basics on architecture
Madrid: El Croquis, 2009
Texts by Georg Frank,
Hans Frei and Christian Kerez






Christian Kerez: 2010 – 2015
Madrid: El Croquis, 2015






















Three Museums and a Square, Competition, Guangzhou, China, 2013
Facade Studies





Three Museums and a Square, Competition, Guangzhou, China, 2013








Apartment Building on Forsterstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland, 1999–2003
Photos Christian Kerez, 2003







Fondation Beyeler Extension Project, Basel, Switzerland, 2016
Plans, Exhibition and Multifunctional





Cultural Center Beijing, Competition, Beijing, China, 2013
Model 1:50






“Stage Design and the Architecture of Cinemas”
at Istituto Svizzero, Rome on June 13, 2013








Christian Kerez - Une Anthologie de l’Espace (Space Anthology)
Exhibition now open until the end of February 2024 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris





Bahrain Parking for the Pearl Path, Muharraq, Bahrain, 2017-2023, Plot A, Construction Site
















Swiss Pavilion, Biennale di Architettura, Venice, Italy, 2016.
Plotted Formworks






Porto Seguro Social Housing, Paraisopolis Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009-2013
Level 0





Nanjing Footbridge, Nanjing, China, 2022
Model 25CE 1:87






Fondation Beyeler, Extension Project, Basel, Switzerland, 2016
Model, 1:200





EWZ Power Plant, Zürich, Switzerland, 2015-2016
Competition












University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Muttenz, Switzerland, 2011
Structural Model, Wood, 1:33











Pavilion for the Kingdom of Bahrain
Dubai Expo 2020
Columns Scripting Before and After

Innenansichten – Arbeiten von
Christian Kerez
Set of postcards
Architekturmuseum in Basel, 2006


















University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Muttenz, Switzerland, 2011
Cascading Stairways as an Ornament







Innenansichten
Exhibition, Architekturmuseum Basel, 2006








EWZ Power Plant, Zürich, Switzerland, 2015-2016
Competition
Floorplans






Incidental Space, Pavilion of Switzerland, 15th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2016
Concrete Work-Form Materials





Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2006–2014

CHRISTIAN KEREZ Uncertain Certainty
TOTO Publishing, Tokyo, 2013













Oberrealta Chapel, Grisons, Switzerland, 1992









Introduction to The Kenzo Tange Lecture:
“The Rule of the game” at Harvard GSD on Sept 18, 2012






School Building in Leutschenbach, Zürich, Switzerland, 2002–2009

ARCH+ 224
Release architecture
Incidental Space by Christian Kerez
July 2016











Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2007–2014
Skylights Penings Structure







Office Building, Lyon Confluence Ilot A3, Lyon, France, 2013-2018
Photos Maxime Delvaux, 2018







Incidental Space, Pavilion of Switzerland, 15th International Architecture Biennale in Venice, 2016
Wang Shu
Nina Grabar
Gilles Retsin
Patrik Schumacher
Yiqiu Liu
Francesco Dal Co
Visiting Incidental Space









House in Prague, 2021
Diagrams





EWZ Power Plant, Zürich, Switzerland, 2015-2016
Competition
Structural Diagram

































Apartment Building on Forsterstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland, 1999–2003
Photos Christian Kerez, 2006





Apartment Building on Forsterstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland, 1999–2003
Photos Christian Kerez, 2003






Jardim Colombo, Selective Chronology,
Biennale di Venezia, 2016






Cultural Center Beijing, Competition, Beijing, China, 2013
Model Plans 1:200




Studio Eibenstrasse, 2008
Photos Walter Mair





House with a Missing Column, Zürich, Switzerland, 2009–2014
Photos Mikael Olsson, 2015






House Müller, Zurich, Switzerland, 2009-2014
Steel Plant, 2013










Highrise in Zhengzhou, Zhendong New District, Zhengzhou, China, 2012
Image Stills from Animation
















House with One Wall, Zürich, 2004–2007
Photos Ariel Huber, Marc Lendorff

ARCH+ featuring
Incidental Space
May 2016











Porto Seguro Social Housing, Paraisopolis Program, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2009-2013






Intervention Apartment Constanze Haas and Arno Brandlhuber






China Academy of Arts, Liangzhou Campus, Hangzhou, China, 2020
Model, 1:100






Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organisation Headquarters (VRT), Brussels, Belgium, 2015
Competition Model






House in Prague, Construction site, 2021


Pavilion for the Kingdom of Bahrain
Dubai Expo 2020
Under Construction
Site Axonometry







Bahrain Parking for the Pearl Path, Muharraq, Bahrain, 2017-2020
Plot B, Construction Sequence






EWZ Power Plant, Zürich, Switzerland, 2015-2016
Competition