05.04. - 14.09.2025

What Was Could Be – Experiments Between Preservation and Architecture

In the shift towards sustainable building practice, work with the existing and thus the methods of historic preservation gain new relevance. The show takes a fresh look at the discipline and its intersections with architecture. Developed with the ETH Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservatio

 

GayMenzel, Maisons Duc, Saint-Maurice, model in scale 1:33 in the existing building, 2014
photo: GayMenzel (Emmanuel Dorsaz)

Upcoming exhibitions

05.04. - 14.09.2025

What Was Could Be – Experiments Between Preservation and Architecture

In the shift towards sustainable building practice, work with the existing and thus the methods of historic preservation gain new relevance.

27.09. - 09.11.2025

SAY Swiss Architecture Yearbook

What defines Swiss architecture? The exhibition focuses on current construction and renovation projects with the aim of raising awareness about Swiss building culture and increase its visibility.
Curated by the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum and the magazine werk, bauen+wohnen.

29.11.2025 - 19.04.2026

Wohnen – not for Profit: The cooperative as a laboratory for coexistence

The exhibition presents cooperative housing regionally, nationally and internationally as a laboratory of non-profit-oriented cohabitation from which the entire city can benefit.