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Left: Linus Bill | From the zine "Please merry me", published by Nieves, 2007 |
Right: Linus Bill | From the publication "Piss down my back and tell me it's raining", published by Nieves, 2006 |

Left: Ruth Erdt | "Naples 2004" |
Right: Ruth Erdt | "Dublin 2006" |

Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs | "Grow homes" |

Left: Markus and Daniel Freitag |
Right: Freitag flagship store, Zurich | ©Photo: Roland Tännler |

Design: Interview with Ariana Pradal | Design critic |

Design: Interview with Andreas Saxer | Designer |

ZMIK Designers | A collection of prototypes at V-Gallery |

Left: Christ & Gantenbein Architects | Bildstückliweg house extension and renovation, 2002 | ©Photo: Roman Keller |
Right: Christ & Gentenbein Architects | Top: Rankhof Basel, studies, 2008; Bottom: Dreispitz areal, Basel, 2007 |

Buchner & Bründler Architects | Wohnhaus Bachmattweg, Aesch, 2004 | ©Photo: Dominique Marc Wehrli |

Contemporary art: Interview with Ludvic Balland and Adam Szymczyk

Videowalk in Basel | "A walk with Olga Bolshanina" |

Videowalk in Basel | "A walk with Hans Focketyn" |

Zurich-Basel Final double issue: Zurich

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	6 David Renggli 8-11 Linus Bill 12-13 Ruth Erdt 14-15 Nicole Bachmann 16-17 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs 18-19 Andrea Winkler 20 Freitag 21 Adrian Ehrat 22-23 Freitag 24-27 Akris 28 Stefan Burger 29 Elodie Pong 30-31 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs
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	NOMAD text Zurich
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	Design 32-34 Made to work, made to love - by Ariana Pradal 35-37 Inverview with Alfredo Häberli 38-39 Interview with Daniel and Markus Freitag 40-41 Interview with Andrea Sxer Fashion 42-43 Interview with Albert Kriemler Contemporary art 44-45 Interview with Ugo Rondinone - by Milovan Farronato 46 Interview with David Renggli - by Milovan Farronato Music 47 Interview with Domenico Ferrari Point of view 48 Barich or Zusel 0 The twin cities - by Daniel Wiener 49 The shooting lady - by Wäis Kiani Kreis 4 & 5 50-51 Switzerland's creative epicenter - by Hannes Grasseger 52 Interview with Esther Eppstein 53 Interview with Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth 54 Interview with Manuela Schlumpt 55 Interview with Andrea Thal 56-57 Interview with Benjamin Sommerhalder 58 Interview with Sacha Winkler 60-61 Interview with Urs Lehni and Lex Trüb
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	NOMAD map Zurich
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	64-70 Selected addresses

NOMAD Zurich-Basel Final double issue contributors/interviewers and artists' profiles: Zurich

Contributors and interviewers' profiles		Artists' profiles

Milovan Farronato is an art critic and curator. He is director of the non-profit space Viafarini (www.viafarini.org) Milan. He is also contributing editor for various art publications. He collaborates with galleria civica di Modena and Arario Foundation in Seoul/Bejijng.	>	Nicole Bachmann lives and works in Zurich. Visual artist. Editor of fanzine: me & my friends (www.nieves.ch). She won the Swiss Design Prize in 2003, Musée d’Art et Design, Lausanne and the Art Prize 2008, Nationale Suisse, Basel. Solo Exhibition at Liste 08.

Domenico Ferrari is an Italian/Swiss composer, producer and electronic musician born in Zurich. After his early jazz period, he increasingly broadened his horizons to include electronic aspects in music and works, including as composer for movie scores. He is currently living in Rome, at the Istituto Svizzero Roma, working on two album projects and composing music for a film project.	>	Linus Bill lives in Bienne and earns his living in Zurich. He has published several books and zines with Zurich-based publishing houses. Most recently Meistens macht man die im Haus, aber im Sommer gehts auch draussen. with Nieves and Tu M’as Volé Mon Vélo with Rollo Press. www.linusbill.com

Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth is a gallerist in Zurich. After studying fine arts, being an artist himself and initiating/running the non-profit space Les Complices* until 2006 he opened the gallery Freymond-Guth & Co. Fine Arts, currently representing seven international artists working in all medias. He is also a curator. www.freymondguth.com	>	Stefan Burger was born in 1977 Müllheim/Baden, Germany; he lives and works in Zurich. He studied Photography at the School for Art and Design Zurich from 1999 to 2003. www.stefanburger.ch

Hannes Grassegger is a journalist and economist. He writes about young arts, music and economics for Switzerland’s largest quality paper, the 'Tages-Anzeiger’. After having divided his time between Zurich and Berlin for some years he moved to Zurich in 2004.	>	Ruth Erdt has been exhibiting with Message salon since 1997. Born in 1965, the artist became known through her photos of her family and friends, an intense, all-encompassing body of work that began in the 1980s and continues through today (The Gang, Lars Müller Publishers, 2001). In her newest project, Casting System, Ruth Erdt looks at the fragile world of puberty. Young women and girls pose for the camera in her studio.

Wäis Kiani is the Author of the bestseller “Stirb Susi” (which means “die sissy”). She‘s a columnist (for Amica, Annabelle, Financial Times) and known as a style and culture critic for “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and “NZZ am Sonntag”. Wä is Kiani lives and works in Zurich. www.waeis.de	>	Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs Born in 1979, they live and work in Zurich and sometimes elsewhere. They studied Photography at the University of Art and Design in Zurich and have been cooperating since 2003. Among others, they won Second Prize, vfg Young Talents, Zurich and Festival Grand Prix, International Festival of Photography, Hyères. They are currently preparing an exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York opening May 27 and running until July 19 2008. www.tonk.ch

Lehni-Trüeb is a graphic design practice, established by Urs Lehni and Lex Trüb in 2005. Since then, the two of them work mainly on book projects related to art publishing, alongside self-initiated projects. www.lehni-trueb.ch	>	Elodie Pong born in Boston, USA. lives and works in Zurich. Represented by freymond-guth & Co. Fine arts gallery www.elodiepong.net

Nina Merli has been working for eleven years as a journalist and learnt that nothing is impossible and that there‘s often no tomorrow. Daughter of an Italian father and a Finnish mother she’s always been attracted by different cultures, languages and lifestyles. This year she founded the art promotion company “ART APART ” together with her partner and curator Oxana Maleeva. “ART APART gives me the possibility to unite travelling, creativity, satisfying work and my passion for new horizons”. www.artapart.org	>	The work of Ugo Rondinone is a wide spectrum of expressive possibilities though adhering constantly to the same existential themes, investigating every particular nuance. Varietas inscribed in a vocabulary that continually reforms and rewrites his intimate poetic world. The artist has availed himself of painting, video, photography, sculpture and sound but has always given an environmental and installation quality and a delicately melancholic tone to each of his works. The count of days, waiting, slowness.. in the end the boredom, these are the “moods” that Rondinone capably conveys to us together with a sense of serene reconciliation in front of the maximum extent of life. Rondinone was born in 1964 in Brunner in Switzerland. He lives and works between New York and Zurich.

Message Salon is Esther Eppstein’s (1967, Zurich) art project. message salon is a platform for artists. Since 1996 Message salon is part of the local art scene exhibiting mostly local artists or artists with connections to the Zurich art scene. In 2003 and 2006 Esther Eppstein received an award for art mediation from the federal commission for art (BAK).	>	Andrea Winkler (1975 in Zurich) has studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, with Wolfgang Tillmans, Cerith Wyn Evans and Gisela Bullacher. Besides Wartesaal, her work was exhibited amongst other at Kunsthalle St. Galle, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Kunstverein Springhornhof, Center of Attention, Anthony D’Offay, London and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, NY.

Nieves is an independent publishing house based in Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by Benjamin Sommerhalder in 2001, Nieves’ focus is on publishing Artist Books and Zines. www.nieves.ch	>

Ariana Pradal trained as an industrial designer, works as a journalist and curator. She writes and works regularly for various magazines and museums in the field of design and architecture. Her articles, books and exhibitions have been printed and presented in Switzerland and abroad.	>

Manuela Schlumpf & Adrian Ehrat run the exhibition space called “Wartesaal” which means “waiting room” since 2005. Manuela Schlumpf has worked for different Galleries and Art Institutions, Adrian Ehrat is a Graphic Designer. Together they follow the idea of curating exhibitions in temporary empty or unused spaces. www.wartesaal.ch	>

soDA is distributed in all main cities in Switzerland and Europe and can be found in bookshops, in special interest shops and by subscription. www.soda.ch	>

Andrea Thal runs Les Complices*, a space for exhibtions, discussions and other culture, pleasure and thought related matters located in Zurich’s Kreis 4.

Daniel Wiener holds a Master in Art’s Management and is a journalist, urbanist, moderator and managing partner of ecos. This think-tank has been consulting, for more than 20 years, companies, governments, cities and organizations aiming for sustainable sevelopment. ecos stands for “ecology, econmy and social responsibility”. Wiener is the author of several books on participative city development and urban ecology. He also works as a columnist for the major Basel newspaper “Basler Zeitung”.

Sacha Winkler - A 35 year-old from Zurich, deeply lost in music for many years in different ways: as a producer, live performer, club owner and a DJ. When he was 12 years’ old his mother gave him a drum-kit and he learned how to play. At 18 years old he was the drummer of a funk-hip hop-group in Zurich called Sendak. they recorded 2 LP records and toured around Switzerland. Since 2000 he has been producing his own music on different labels, in Switzerland (stattmusik, phictiv) and in foreign countries (perlonberlin, bearfunk-uk). his Debut Album “Rumpelzirkus” came out in March 07. He is currently working on a new album and plays live gigs with his band, the rumpelorchestra, both in Europe and overseas. www.myspace.com/kalaspalz

Zurich-Basel Final double issue: Basel

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	3 Maris Mezulis 4 ETH Studio Basel, Cartoon Project "Metro Basel" 5 ETH Studio Basel, "Urban form of Basel" 6 Vitra Campus 7 Ludovic Balland 8-9 Zmik 10-11 Airship Graf Zeppelin passing St. Anthony Church 12-13Maris Mezulis 14 Alejandro Araveria Architects / Herzog & de Meuron 15 Rolf Fehlbaum and Charles & Ray Eames 16-17 Christ & Gantenbein Architects 18-19 HHF Architects 20-21 Pedrocchi Meier Architects 30-31 Buchner & Bründler Architects
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	Introduction 22-23 Basel builds: then, now and tomorrow - Reto Geiser and Martin Josephy Architecture 26-29 Roundtable on the young architectural scene 32-33 Interview with Rolf Fehlbaum - Vitra 34 Interview with Mattias Mohr - Zmik Photography 35 Interview with Maris Mezul - Visual artist Graphic Design 36 Interview with Ludovic Balland - Ludovic Balland Design Office Contemporary Art 37 Interview with Adam Szymczyk - Kunsthalle Basel 38-49 Special Project "Videowalk in Basel": Walk with 5 young architects
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	NOMAD map Basel
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	52 Architectural itinerary 53-56 Selected addresses

NOMAD Zurich-Basel Final double issue contributors/interviewers and artists' profiles: Basel

	Contributors, interviewers and artist' profiles

	Andreas Bründler born in Sins, Switzerland 1967. Received a Diploma in Architecture from the University of Applied Sciences, Basel. In 1997 he established Buchner Bründler Architects with Daniel Buchner in Basel. He won the Swiss Art Award in Architecture in 2003 and became a Member of the Federation of Sw iss Architects BSA (Bund Schweizer Architekten). In 2006 he received the Aw ard BILANZ Hotel Designer of the Year for Renovation of Parkhotel Bellevue, Adelboden. He was a Guest Lecturer at EPFL (Federal Polytechnical School), Lausanne in 2008. He currently lives and works in Basel. www.bbarc.ch		Adam Szymczyk is the Director of KunsThalle Basel. www.kunsthallebasel.ch
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	Emanuel Christ, born in Basel, studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, the EPF Lausanne and at the HdK Berlin. He was the head of teaching at the ETH studio Basel between 2000 and 2005. In 1998 he established his own practice with Christoph Gantenbein. He realized different residential projects and is taking part in various large-scale city developments and in several urban planning schemes. One of Christ & Gantenbeins main projects at the moment is the renovation and extension of the Sw iss National Museum. As well as running his office Emanuel Christ taught at the Robert Gordon University Aberdeen and the Academia di Architettura Mendrisio. He is a Guest professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in 2008/2009. www.christgantenbein.com		Martin Josephy is an architect, urban planner and critic based in Basel. Former director of ETH Studio Basel (2002-2004) and scholar at the Barragan Foundation (since 2000), he is currently engaged in a series of projects focusing on urban and regional development in the trinational region of Basel. Among others, he is an executive member of the Virtual Upperrhine University of Architecture / VUUA , a regional network of schools involving architecture and other spatial practices. Josephy is a founding member of the foundation board of Architektur Dialoge Basel.

	Reto Geiser is an architect and currently a research associate at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His work focuses on modern architecture and the contemporary architectural and urban discourse. In his doctoral thesis, Geiser focuses on the architectural and artistic relations between Switzerland and the United States by addressing issues of cultural identity and modernisation in the work of art and architecture historian Sigfried Giedion. As a founding principal of the collaborative design practice Research and Development, Geiser is also developing design strategies related to architecture, art, and visual culture. Recent projects include the award-winning design of Atlas of Novel Tectonics (2006). Currently, he is curator of the Swiss Pavilion at the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, to be held in the fall of 2008.		Reto Pedrocchi and Beat Meier, both born in 1973 in Zurich, studied Architecture in Basel and Berlin. In 2005 they established their office Pedrocchi Meier Architects in Basel. Reto Pedrocchi worked after his studies for Herzog & de Meuron Architects in Basel and Tokyo. From 2003 to 2007 he was teaching assistant and head of teaching for Professor Christian Kerez at ETH Zurich. Beat Meier worked for Buchner Bruendler Architects in Basel and New York. In 2008 he was teaching assistant for guest professor Daniel Buchner and Andreas Bruendler at EPF in Lausanne. Currently he is teaching assistant for guest teacher Barbara Strub at FHNW in Basel. www.pedrocchi-meier.ch

	Roderick Hönig was born in 1971 in Switzerland. He studied architecture at the ETH Zurich and the E.T.S.A. Barcelona and received a CAS in Arts Management from the University of Berne. He worked for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung as well as for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has edited several books, including «Swiss Sound Box», the catalogue for Peter Zumthors Pavillion at Expo 2000 in Hannover, «ImagiNation», the official catalogue of the Swiss National Exhibition Expo.02 or the «Architectural Guide Zurich». 2005 he received the Sw iss Arts Aw ard in the category Arts and Architecture education. Today Hönig is the editor for architecture at Hochparterre, the magazine for architecture and design in Zurich.		Maris Mezulis is a visual artist working at the intersection of photography, cinema, and architecture. His images of spaces and objects display remarkable clarity with precise design, while his films and motion works playfully test perception and formal aspects of composition. Mezulis circulates between Tokyo, Europe and the Americas.

	Simon Hartmann, born 1974, is Partner of HHF architects, established in 2003 together with Tilo Herlach and Simon Frommenwiler. HHF architects are a Basel based architecture studio with accomplished and ongoing projects in Switzerland, China, USA, Germany and Italy. Accompanying the office work, Simon Hartmann taught at the ETH Studio Basel from 2002 to 2007 and taught workshops at Universidad Iberoamerican (Mexico City) in 2006 and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2007. www.hhf.ch		Zmik is a young studio for space design, founded in 2006 by Rolf Indermühle, Mattias Mohr and Magnus Zwyssig. Zmik explores opportunities at the fringes of various disciplines such as interior design, scenography, architecture and product design. www.zmik.ch

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