Archinect - News 2024-12-22T07:26:17-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/98668958/one-architect-s-swiss-village-revival-in-retrospect One architect's Swiss village revival in retrospect Alexander Walter 2014-04-25T13:59:00-04:00 >2014-04-30T12:30:34-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a2/a20426bc2493bf6b2722f1dee9df3c21?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Swiss architect Gion A Caminada is something of a cult figure. Now in his 50s, he's spent much of his working life since the late 1970s practising out of a small village called Vrin in the canton of Graub&uuml;nden. [...] Caminada's idea was to boost the place with a collection of well-designed and functional private and communal buildings, among them the Aussichtsturm Reussdelta, an ornithologists' observation tower, and Waldhuette, a woodland cabin containing a school classroom.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>