Adrian Streich Architekten

For twenty years, Zurich has been undergoing significant transformation: industrial areas are being converted into new residential neighborhoods, and in garden city districts, rows of post-war houses are being replaced by large-scale new constructions. This has resulted in a remarkable diversity of residential buildings, many of which attract international interest.

A key figure in this unique housing initiative is architect Adrian Streich. Since he was able to build the urban residential complex Werdwies after winning an architecture competition in the early 2000s, he has enriched housing construction in Zurich – and not just there. He introduces new yet familiar urban planning concepts, designs robust and sophisticated floor plans, and works intensively on solid and sustainable constructions. Notably, he pays great attention to the communal access spaces – staircases, loggias, terraces – of his residential buildings, as seen in the second building of the cooperative Kraftwerk1 or the cooperative house in Greencity. The integration of spatial organization and social interaction is also a hallmark of the school buildings that Adrian Streich has designed and built in recent years.

This first monograph on Adrian Streich Architects presents 27 buildings and projects in detail, featuring photographs, plans, and descriptive texts. In an essay, architectural theorist André Bideau characterizes the architect's work, and editor Axel Simon discusses with Adrian Streich the challenges and insights that lie behind his buildings.