April 21 to 30, 2011
ALSACE (France), VITRA (Germany), ZURICH, VALS, BASEL (Switzerland)
Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel + 9 buildings by 7 recipients of the Pritzker Prize
of architecture including a building by the latest Pritzker winner, Kazuyo Sejima
and Fondation Beyeler by Renzo Piano (Pritzker Architecture Prize Recipient); Tinguely
Museum by Mario Botta; Goetheanum by Rudolph Steiner; Strasbourg Cathedral; Haut-
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Castle of Haut-
The Vitra Design Museum maintains the world’s largest collections of modern furniture design , with objects representing all of the major eras and stylistic periods from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The Vitra Factory’s buildings were designed by Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Álvaro Siza Vieira, Herzog & de Meuron and Kazuyo Sejima, all recipients of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and by Antonio Citterio and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw.
We will stay 2 nights at the Vals Thermal Baths designed by the 2009 Pritzker Prize recipient
Peter Zumthor, one of the subject in my seminar “Modern Organic Architecture.”
Mario Botta has created an unusual stage for Jean Tinguely’s kinetic sculptures.
Colmar, is a marvelously well preserved Alsatian city, a great example of good historical restoration and preservation.
It is also Bartholdi’s birth place, the Statue of Liberty’sculptor.
BASEL is well worth a day exploration, thanks to an attractive old town with fine buildings like the Cathedral, the painstakingly renovated City Hall, the Barfüsserkirche (now the Historical Museum), and the Spalentor that once served as a defensive gateway to Alsace.
The largest car museum in the world in Mulhouse, includes 123 Bugatti. Two of which are Bugatti Royale valued each at about $ 15 million.
Zurich which likes to call itself "Downtown Switzerland" is the largest city in Switzerland. It is located at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. Permanently settled for around 7,000 years, the history of Zürich goes back to its founding by the Romans, who, in 15 BC, called it Turicum.
During the Middle Ages Zürich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial
immediacy and, in 1519, was the place of origin and centre of the Protestant Reformation
in German-
A feast for lovers of art, architecture and food
Strasbourg Cathedral was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874.
In Mulhouse there is also the Museum of Printed Textiles with over 3 million samples spanning three centuries of design history.
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$5,287 per person in double occupancy
$ 600 single supplement
For American & Canadian Architects & Interior Designers: Up to 34 HSW CEU/LU hrs including4 hrs of AIA/CES Sustainable Design.
Near Zurich is the work of Peter Vetsch, an architect who design environmentally sane houses, disappearing into the landscape. They are filled with natural light, are very energy efficient, quiet & could be built almost anywhere.
Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel
One of the 20th Century’s most important buildings .
Goetheanum by Rudolph Steiner.
In Dornach (near Basel), Switzerland, is the world center for the anthroposophical
movement. It was amed after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Begun in 1924, the building,
represents a pioneering use of visible concrete in architecture. Art critic Michael
Brennan has called the building a "true masterpiece of 20th-
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La Saline Royale functioned as an integrated plant where almost everyone involved lived together following a strict hierarchy. Built in the shape of an arc, it housed settlements and production, 11 buildings in all.
Jean Renoux’s Art & Architectural Tours and Seminars
Tours for Lovers of Architecture, Art and History
Continuing Education for Architects and Interior Designers
Centre Le Corbusier, created by Heidi Weber in 1960.
The Saline Royale (Royal Saltworks) is an ensemble of historical building designed
by a prominent Parisian architect of the time, Claude-
The work is an example of an early Enlightenment project in which the architect based his design on a philosophy that favored arranging buildings according to a rational geometry and a hierarchical relation between the parts of the project.
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