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The work of designing a building?even the largest and most technically advanced structures?begins with the most basic of elements: a sketch. This beautifully produced volume reproduces more than one hundred of such initial sketches, drawn in chalk, by renowned Swiss architect Marianne Burkhalter. A cofounder of Burkhalter Sumi Architects, she has designed a wide range of acclaimed public and private buildings, including hotels, offices, and private homes, as well as large-scale urban redevelopment projects.              Each of these chalk drawings reveals the germ of an idea, their blurred lines and simplicity rendering them more intimate and immediate than technical draftsmanship?closer in feel to the decision-making process of a solitary artist choosing among many options and sorting out problems. In their beauty and tension, they bring the work of architectural design to stunning life.

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Marianne Burkhalter worked as an architect in various offices in Switzerland, Italy and the US before establishing her own office together with Christian Sumi in 1984. She has been a professor at the Academia die Architettura of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio (Switzerland) since 2007. Christian Sumi worked at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome from 1978 to 1981 and as a research fellow at the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich from 1980 to 1983 before establishing his own office together with Marianne Burkhalter in 1984. He has been a professor at the Academia die Architettura of the Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio (Switzerland) since 2007.

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