The Swiss Embassy in Berlin and Its Surroundings
Akinbode Akinbiyi - The Swiss Embassy in Berlin and Its Surroundings: A Building by Diener & Diener
The Swiss Embassy in Berlin and Its Surroundings: A Building by Diener & Diener focuses on the titular building in its historical, urban context, and the everyday life that surrounds it. Completed between 1995 and 2000, the Swiss Embassy is widely considered among the most significant works by Diener & Diener Architects, a Basel-based architectural practice recognized for their projects often conceived as statements that make our present time resonate with history by means of most minimal interventions in urban fabric. The book, unfolding as a single poster with multiple pictures on one side and texts on the other, portrays the Embassy—an exterritorial entity in a foreign state, hospitable in most cases exclusively to citizens of their own country—as an institution embodied in the building that contains it. Black-and-white images by Berlin-based photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi capture the building itself—located in the historically charged area in the knee of the river Spree, next to the Reichstag and the Federal Chancellery—as well as those walking by. The book includes new essays by Hannah Feldman, an historian and theorist of contemporary art, urban space, and decolonization, Associate Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, and a curator, former artistic director of documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, Adam Szymczyk. In photographs and texts, a fragmentary portrait of the building comes into being. Photographs by Akinbode Akinbiyi, with texts by Hannah Feldman and Adam Szymczyk and coda by Roger Diener. Design: Roger Willems.
Roma Publications is an Amsterdam based art book publisher and design studio, founded in 1998 by graphic designer Roger Willems, and artists Mark Manders and Marc Nagtzaam. It is used as a platform to produce and distribute autonomous publications made in close collaboration with a growing number of artists, institutions, writers and designers. Related to the content, every issue has its own rule of appearance and distribution, varying from house to house papers to exclusive books. The publications so far are in editions between 2 and 150,000 copies. Occasionally, Roma also curates exhibitions. Current staff: Roger Willems, Jordi de Vetten and Erik van der Weijde
Language: English
Number of pages: 24
Dimensions: 33 x 16 x 1 cm
Release: 03/2026
ISBN: 9789464460919
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