About Peter Märkli Concrete Reliefs
Peter Märkli's architecture is bare board-formed concrete reduced to primitive proportion. At La Congiunta in Giornico (1992) — built to house Hans Josephsohn's reliefs — untreated reinforced-concrete galleries are lit only from above, so the raw walls read as a luminous mid-gray rather than brutalist dark.
The mood is archaic, silent, tactile: wooden-formwork grain and tie-holes left in the stone are the only ornament. This system translates that material restraint into screen — concrete grounds, hairline board-line seams, austere mono labels, and zero gloss.
- Origin
- Ticino, Switzerland / Western Europe
- Era
- 1990–2010 (La Congiunta completed 1992)
- Key figures
- Peter Märkli · Hans Josephsohn · Rudolf Olgiati
- Movements
- Swiss minimalism · Ticino school · Archaic / primitive modernism
Peter Märkli Concrete Reliefs design spec
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