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005 Blue House – Herzog & de Meuron. Oberwil, Switzerland. Project. 1979. Realization. 1979-1980. Taking on the superficial configuration of different elements of the surrounding suburban houses, the Blue House at once aligns with and distances itself from its neighbours.
Taking on the superficial configuration of different elements of the surrounding suburban houses, the Blue House at once aligns with and distances itself from its neighbours.
The aim of the article is to interpret the body-mind relation-ship in Herzog & de Meuron’s architecture. We surveyed their architecture over the last twenty years, uncovering the parallel changes in buildings and writings, with the theoretical trends in the background.
1985-1988. Set in an undulating landscape of abandoned olive groves, the three-storey house stands on a promontory, engaging part of a former stone terrace. The design concept of the house is based on the fusion of plan, elevation and section.
Herzog & de Meuron received international attention very early in their career with the Blue House in Oberwil, Switzerland (1980); the Stone House in Tavole, Italy (1988); and the Apartment Building along a Party Wall in Basel (1988).
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron interviewed by Stanislaus von Moos, “Appearance and Injury”, Quaderns d’arquitectura i urbanisme, nos. 167–68 (1985), 54. During the interview the Swiss architects describe the Blue House as “much less ‘polite’ amid the urban agglomeration” than the later and more refined Dagmersellen House.
Named after the unusual color of the facade, the Blue House can be read as a built mind-map of its architects. All their heroes at the time (Aldo Rossi, Jacques Tati, Yves Klein, Gordon Matta-Clark…) were quoted in the design, some more apparent than others.
