Join SqW:Lab and TARQ tomorrow as we host an engaging discussion with Christian Dehli, Andrea Grolimund and Kaiwan Mehta on modern heritage and ideas of conservation.
The programme will introduce DEHLI GROLIMUND studio's experience in preservation and conservation, particularly of moving Kazuo Shinohara's Umbrella house from Japan to Vitra campus, Germany.
The following conversation with Kaiwan Mehta is prompted by the presence of unique and important modernist architecture in India such as projects by Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, Mahendra Raj, Charles Correa and B. V. Doshi and Mumbai Art Deco to name a few.
About DEHLI GROLIMUND
DEHLI GROLIMUND is a young architectural practice based in Zurich, Switzerland, and founded jointly by the Swiss-Norwegian architect Christian Dehli (Oslo, 1980) and the Swiss architect Andrea Grolimund (Bern, 1985). Both studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and graduated under Professor Christian Kerez. After working at various practices in Zurich, Basel and Tokyo during their studies, Christian Dehli joined Herzog & de Meuron (Basel); while Andrea Grolimund became a member of BS+EMI Architektenpartner (Zurich). Dehli has assisted Christian Kerez in his design studio at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) and later taught at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU). Together they published Kazuo Shinohara: 3 Houses (2019), in which three of the most iconic houses of the celebrated Japanese architect are depicted, with plans redrawn to commensurate scale. The book received the coveted design award: “Most Beautiful Swiss Books (2019).”