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Please register for the e-mail Newsletter of the Werner Oechslin Library! Please support our work – become a member of our Society of Friends! Events The library is temporarily closed for visitors. Ninth colloquium on Architectural Theory: Canon–Forming the Canon (23.-26.04.2020). Programm. The colloquium is cancelled and postponed to April 2021. Exibition: Festivity and public (06.06.2019–30.05.2020) Catologue of the exibition New publication: Architekturtheorie im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum 1486–1648 ended: Call for papers: Twenty-first International Baroque Summer Course: Un bel composto: Mediality in the Baroque (21.-25. June 2020) Call for papers: Ninth Colloquium on Architectural Theory: Canon – Forming the Canon (23-26 April 2020) Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion: Nutzen und Grenzen der Raumplanung im Kanton Schwyz(29.08.2019, 19.15 Uhr) Workshop: Modern architecture between crafts, industrialization and artistic individuality: Bauhaus und Werkbund (04.–08.08.2019) 20 th Baroque Summer Course: Festivals–Staging the City (23.–27.Juni 2019) Borromini-Kolloquium (30.06.–01.07.2019) 8th Colloquium on Architectural Theory (25.–28.04.2019) Program Recent Publicationes online "Werner Oechslin: Die Bibliothek ist mein Trojanisches Pferd". Article in Russian in "Moscow Review of Books" [PDF] La storia della salvezza "more geometrico": La volta della navata di S. Ignazio a Roma affrescata da Andrea Pozzo. / by Werner Oechslin. (2014) Werner Oechslin, Stilhülse und Kern (1994) Short movie about the Werner Oechslin Library (with engl. Subtitles) Video interview Video with Werner Oechslin for the internet portal www.sciences-arts.ch of the Schweizerischen Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (SAGW). Werner Oechslins Laudatio für Luigi Snozzi (TU München, 12.12.2013) (PDF) Video for the new edition of the architectural journal domus Vitruviana from the Werner Oechslin Library (Scans) gedruckt: New publication: Architekturtheorie im deutschsprachigen Kulturraum 1486–1648 Scholion 10 / 2016 SCHOLION 9 / 2015 Tobias Büchi: Fortifikationsliteratur des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts (2015) Heilige Landschaft – Heilige Berge (2014) Luigi Snozzi: 25 Aphorismen zur Architektur. – Basel: Schwabe, 2013 Research Projects Architectural Theory in the German speaking countries from the 16th to the 18th centuries Guided tours through the Library here more information can be found
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