In 1956, Swiss architect Dolf Schnebli won the prestigious Wheelwright fellowship, thanks to which he travelled to the East for one year. His journey notes, together with the many photos, remained pending for 40 years before being published in 2009. The publication is organised through a dialogue among images and short notes describing the experience. The photos focus on the landscapes he visited as well as on details of architecture and on people in their everyday lives. This article comments on the events of the journey and on the book publication, it develops the narrative thread of the experience and it extracts some essential themes of the architect's landscape interpretation through photography which will have a profound influence on his future architectural design approach. For Schnebli, the journey was an opportunity for a long exercise in reading landscape and architecture which profoundly marked his thinking and approach as a teacher and architect.
One year from Venice to India learning from the landscape: the “slow journey” of Dolf Schnebli
ALESSANDRA COMO
;LUISA SMERAGLIUOLO PERROTTA
2022-01-01
Abstract
In 1956, Swiss architect Dolf Schnebli won the prestigious Wheelwright fellowship, thanks to which he travelled to the East for one year. His journey notes, together with the many photos, remained pending for 40 years before being published in 2009. The publication is organised through a dialogue among images and short notes describing the experience. The photos focus on the landscapes he visited as well as on details of architecture and on people in their everyday lives. This article comments on the events of the journey and on the book publication, it develops the narrative thread of the experience and it extracts some essential themes of the architect's landscape interpretation through photography which will have a profound influence on his future architectural design approach. For Schnebli, the journey was an opportunity for a long exercise in reading landscape and architecture which profoundly marked his thinking and approach as a teacher and architect.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.