The practice of architects Max Ernst Haefeli (1901-76), Werner Max Moser (1896-1970) and Rudolf Steiger (1900-82) was a primary promoter of modern architecture in Switzerland. With the Congress Center in Zurich or the Zurich University Hospital the collective designed succinct examples of “International Style” architecture in Switzerland. Their complete works “Haefeli Moser Steiger - Die Architekten der Schweizer Moderne”, edited by Sonja Hildebrand, Bruno Maurer & Werner Oechslin and published by GTA Verlag in 2007, in detail documents the long lasting activities of the firm that also span the decades after WWII. Besides a complete work catalogue the book also includes a variety of essays that e.g. connect HMS and the coming-to-life of modern architecture in Switzerland or Swiss modernism as reference for architects in post-war Germany. As is always the case with publications by GTA Verlag, the book is of outstanding quality both in terms of layout and content and very worth its (high) price.
