The Perrochet Fonds at Highways in the City – Baukultur Festival 2025 / Espazium + LAB-U & ACM/Archizoom
Highways in the City, LAB-U, ACM/Archizoom
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the journal TRACÉS, espazium is organising the Baukultur Festival 2025 on the Plateforme 10 site in Lausanne. Seven exhibitions and seven installations will be presented, opening on Wednesday 12 November at 2 p.m. and running until 16 November.
In this context, the exhibition Highways in the City (LAB-U, ACM/Archizoom) will feature a selection of aerial views documenting the construction of the N1 motorway (later A1), drawn from the Perrochet Collection, preserved at the Archives de la construction moderne (ACM-EPFL).
Founded in 1906 in La Chaux-de-Fonds by watchmaker Eugène-Henri Perrochet, the Perrochet postcard publishing house specialised in photographic views of Switzerland. Relocating to Lausanne in the 1910s, the company created Pleinciel SA in 1960, dedicated to aerial photography campaigns for editorial purposes. These approximately 35,000 oblique views, documenting the transformation of the Swiss landscape, are today held at the ACM in the form of acetate negatives and silver-gelatin prints.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the journal TRACÉS, espazium is organising the Baukultur Festival 2025 on the Plateforme 10 site in Lausanne. Seven exhibitions and seven installations will be presented, opening on Wednesday 12 November at 2 p.m. and running until 16 November.
In this context, the exhibition Highways in the City (LAB-U, ACM/Archizoom) will feature a selection of aerial views documenting the construction of the N1 motorway (later A1), drawn from the Perrochet Collection, preserved at the Archives de la construction moderne (ACM-EPFL).
Founded in 1906 in La Chaux-de-Fonds by watchmaker Eugène-Henri Perrochet, the Perrochet postcard publishing house specialised in photographic views of Switzerland. Relocating to Lausanne in the 1910s, the company created Pleinciel SA in 1960, dedicated to aerial photography campaigns for editorial purposes. These approximately 35,000 oblique views, documenting the transformation of the Swiss landscape, are today held at the ACM in the form of acetate negatives and silver-gelatin prints.
Practical information
- General public
- Free