Weiterbauen

Reading, film and lectures in memory of Lucius Burckhardt 1923 to 2003 In cooperation with Forum Bau Kultur Bündner Heimatschutz Admission free.

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He was recently described by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as one of the "most original and creative intellectuals that Switzerland has produced in the last hundred years". He, the busy thinker who doesn't really fit into any pigeonhole. Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) was an economist, sociologist, theorist, professor, founder of the science of walking, author, speaker and activist – and he is considered the doyen of Swiss planning criticism. With his wife Annemarie Burckhardt-Wackernagel (1930–2012) as a sparring partner, he critically accompanied the development of architecture and urban planning for over half a century. Throughout his life, he was driven by the question of what interests are behind the planning and who benefits from its decisions. He opposed motorized traffic becoming the all-determining factor, propagated a participatory approach to the design of public space and undogmatically advocated for homeland protection concerns. He summed up his call for resource-conscious construction with the term "smallest possible intervention".

Lucius Burckhardt was born in Davos and spent his childhood and youth here. Davos is a good place to commemorate his 100th birthday – and to become aware of the topicality of Burckhardt's positions.

Price: Free admission, collection welcome

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