Abstract

The Swissness of Swiss architecture resides in its pursuit of perfection, spatial control and political correctness. It has been faithfully consistent with the aesthetic ideals of modernism; unlike constructions in many developed countries which reacted against an unhealthy overdose of the formal orthodoxy of the International Style. Decadent postmodernism has never been fashionable in the homogenised country with the highest wealth per adult in the world. The architecture there has never had to aspire to social change. It did not have to dream about a better future...