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ALSACE (France), BASEL & VALS & ZURICH (Switzerland)
VITRA FACTORY (Germany)
September 28 to October 9, 2010
A feast for lovers of art, architecture and contemporary furniture
Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel
+ 10 buildings by 8 recipients of the Pritzker Prize of architecture
VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM buildings by Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Álvaro Siza Vieira,
Herzog & de Meuron all recipients of the Pritzker Architecture Prize,
A BUILDING BY THE LATEST PRITZKER PRIZE WINNER FOR 2010, Kazuyo Sejima
and buildings by Jean Prouve, Buckminster Fuller, Antonio Citterio and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw
PLUS
Fondation Beyeler by Renzo Piano (Pritzker Architecture Prize); Museum Tinguely by Mario Botta;
Goetheanum by Rudolph Steiner; Strasbourg Cathedral, Haut-Koenisberg castle; Colmar;
the Salt Factory of Arc-et-Senant by Ledoux, an incredible marvel of city planning in the 18th Century,
Riquewihr, the quaintest of all Alsatian villages and Mulhouse and its fantastic classic cars museum,
and the work of Peter Vetsch ............
Group of only 7 participants maximum
We will stay 2 nights at the Thermal Baths at Vals designed by the 2009 Pritzker Prize recipient Peter Zumthor, the building I have been showing for a while in my seminar “Modern Organic Architecture”
CLICK on names to see photos of the 2009 trip.
Goetheanum by Rudolph Steiner
Ronchamp Chapel by Le Corbusier
Mario Botta has created an unusual stage for Jean Tinguely’s kinetic sculptures.
Peter Vetsch’s covered houses
The Vitra Design Museum maintains one of the world’s largest collections of modern furniture representing all of the major stylistic periods from the beginning of the 19th C. to the present.
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.
(Alsace)
Mulhouse: It is home to one of the largest car museum in the world in , includes 123 Bugatti. Two of which are Bugatti Royale valued each at about $ 15 million. The building itself is interesting because it was originally a fabric mill. There is also the Museum of Printed Textiles with over 6 million samples spanning three centuries of design history.
Le Zenith, a concert venue -Strasbourg
INCLUDED IN THE TOUR:
- 6 nights in the beautiful medieval village of Turckheim, particularly quaint and well-kept.
- 2 nights in Zurich All rooms with A/C, private bath.
- 2 nights in Peter Zumthor’ Spa
- All the breakfasts - 3 lunches - 4 dinners with wine. (Alsace is known for its wines)
- All entrances to every sights visited.
- Books and maps of the area visited.
- Accidental Insurance
- Taxes and tips.
- Guides and lecturers fees.
- You will be picked up at the
EuroAirport Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg and dropped at the Zurich Airport
For American & Canadian Architects & interior designers: Up to 34 HSW CEU hrs including
4 hrs of AIA/CES Sustainable Design.
$4,885 per person in double occupancy
$ 580 single supplement
Salins d’Arc et Senan by Victor Ledoux
Colmar, is a marvelously well preserved Alsatian city, a great example of good historical restoration and preservation.
It is also Bartholdi’s birth place, He was the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty.
Strasbourg Cathedral was the world's tallest building from 1647 to 1874, before Sullivan built the first skyscraper in Chicago.
Jean Renoux’s International Art & Architectural Tours & Seminars/worldarttours
1-888-389-6353 ~ 941-365-5214
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