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Peter Vetsch (born 14 March 1943) is a
Earth houses by Peter Vetsch
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vetsch, Peter Living people 1943 births Swiss architects People from Dietikon District
Peter Vetsch (born 14 March 1943) is a Swiss
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architect
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, known for building earth house
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s.
Life
Vetsch was born 1943 in Sax, Switzerland. He attended public school in Sax from 1950 to 1956. He then attended an agricultural school inCernier
Cernier is the former capital of the district of Val-de-Ruz in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
The municipalities of Boudevilliers, Cernier, Chézard-Saint-Martin, Coffrane, Dombresson, Engollon, Fenin-Vilars-Saules, Fontainemelo ...
until 1962, where he graduated. Afterwards he was an apprentice in structural design in Winterthur
, neighboring_municipalities = Brütten, Dinhard, Elsau, Hettlingen, Illnau-Effretikon, Kyburg, Lindau, Neftenbach, Oberembrach, Pfungen, Rickenbach, Schlatt, Seuzach, Wiesendangen, Zell
, twintowns = Hall in Tirol (Austria ...
and worked for an architecture office in St. Gallen
, neighboring_municipalities = Eggersriet, Gaiserwald, Gossau, Herisau (AR), Mörschwil, Speicher (AR), Stein (AR), Teufen (AR), Untereggen, Wittenbach
, twintowns = Liberec (Czech Republic)
, website = ...
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In the following years, Vetsch attended the academy of arts in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he graduated in 1970. After his diploma he worked for architecture offices in Germany and Switzerland.
Occupational activity
Peter Vetsch has run his own architecture office inDietikon
Dietikon is the fifth biggest city of the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, after Zürich, Winterthur, Uster and Dübendorf. It is the capital of the same-named district of Dietikon and part of the Zürich metropolitan area.
Geography
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, Switzerland since 1978.
Vetsch has built over 47 earth houses in Switzerland and around the world, and also a number of conventional houses. Vetsch’s Earth houses represent his conception of an environmentally conscious, ecological and progressive architecture.
Using sprayed concrete construction, he creates building shells which encompass maximum space with a minimum of surface area, reducing the energy needed for heating. These constructions eschew right angles, and their spatial diversity overcomes the monotony of traditional designs. They recall Antoni Gaudí's organic forms as well as Jugendstil
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architecture.
In 2011, Vetsch stepped down as the director of Artforum Berlin.
Vetsch was linked to designs for a series of Eco Theatres to be built in London's planned Olympic Park in time for London 2012
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References
External links
Earth houses by Peter Vetsch
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vetsch, Peter Living people 1943 births Swiss architects People from Dietikon District