New Architecture, Inherited Legacy. Peter Märkli Recent Works

Conférence de Silvia Alonso dans le cadre du cycle Docomomo Switzerland-TSAM:

New Architecture, Inherited Legacy. Peter Märkli Recent Works
When we consider one ensemble as a combination towards a whole, and we understand that every place today is an anthropic territory, then we can claim that every apartment, architecture, urban, or landscape intervention join an existing constellation for being read. What constitutes the fundamental weave is a figurative equilibrium among the elements, which is composed of visual tensions without any dominating relationship. When it comes to chaotic arrangements like peripheral, it commonly relates to a dynamic structure, contrary to a more static one like the historic centre. Whatever the nature, the heritage constitutes a fragile good, which remains in force on account of extension and refurbishment projects.
Although the knowledge of the generic grammar of architecture consists of the basics facing any work, when it comes to heritage, it becomes a compulsory tool, which Peter Märkli uses with great skill. It is his precise reading of the whole which allows him to enrich his personal language over time, aiming to expand the antecedent in order to renew its validity in the present. The last two decades in Märkli’s architecture provides a range of mature varying scale and environment projects, where the architect shows didactic interventions on the inherited legacy.

Silvia Alonso is architect from the Escuela Politécnica Superior de la Unversidad de Alicante and PhD form de ETSAM de la Universisad Politécnica de Madrid. She is researcher and lecturer in the Universidad Cardenal Herrera since 2017.