Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings and town plans, Diener & Diener have begun to design buildings that add a new lightness and liveliness to the geometric rigor and intellectual clarity that have always characterized their deigns.

This book covers the more than 30 years that the firm has practiced with a selection of over 40 key buildings illustrated with a wealth of material from the firm’s archives, as well as Roger Diener’s own writings and essays by prominent architectural historians Martin Steinmann and Joseph Abrams.

• Features Diener & Diener’s best-known projects, such as the Novartis Forum 3 in Basel and the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, as well as smaller but equally beautiful projects including the 1998 Swiss Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair


• Includes Roger Diener’s selection of over 40 projects, drawn from over 30 years of practice, each described in detail and illustrated with a wealth of never-before-published visual material taken from Diener & Diener’s archives


• Contains essays by Martin Steinmann and Joseph Abram illuminating the important ideas about history, urbanism and Modernism that lie behind Diener & Diener’s architecture, as well as Roger Diener’s own writing

Known for their subtle, sophisticated Modernist buildings and town plans, Diener & Diener have begun to design buildings that add a new lightness and liveliness to the geometric rigor and intellectual clarity that have always characterized their deigns.

This book covers the more than 30 years that the firm has practiced with a selection of over 40 key buildings illustrated with a wealth of material from the firm’s archives, as well as Roger Diener’s own writings and essays by prominent architectural historians Martin Steinmann and Joseph Abrams.

• Features Diener & Diener’s best-known projects, such as the Novartis Forum 3 in Basel and the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, as well as smaller but equally beautiful projects including the 1998 Swiss Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair


• Includes Roger Diener’s selection of over 40 projects, drawn from over 30 years of practice, each described in detail and illustrated with a wealth of never-before-published visual material taken from Diener & Diener’s archives


• Contains essays by Martin Steinmann and Joseph Abram illuminating the important ideas about history, urbanism and Modernism that lie behind Diener & Diener’s architecture, as well as Roger Diener’s own writing