Herzog & de Meuron

摘要

The work of Jacques Herzog (Basel, 1950) and Pierre de Meuron (Basel, 1950) is known almost in its entirety. Their office, Herzog & de Meuron founded in Basel in 1978, is one of the most recognised in the hemisphere of global architecture, having designed several of the most iconic super-places of recent decades at every latitude, from the Tate Modern (2000) in London to the Beijing National Indoor Stadium constructed for the 2008 Olympics, and Tai Kwun, a centre for heritage and arts in Hong Kong built in 2018. Herzog and de Meuron are interpreters of a meaningful "fold" (see Gilles Deleuze, 1992) of expressive languages in architecture. They seek primary codes that precede and therefore renew the languages of the forms deposited by the modern matrix inherited by their generation.