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Article: Architects should not speak: Herzog & de Meuron: natural history.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- The Architectural Review
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- October 1, 2003
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HERZOG & DE MEURON: NATURAL HISTORY
Edited by Philip Ursprung. Montreal and Baden: Canadian Centre for Architecture and Lars Muller Publishers. 2002. $65
This is not a book about buildings, but some kind of catalogue that will accompany an exhibition on the work of Herzog & de Meuron that has been shown in Montreal and will be trundling around the world over the next year or so. And the exhibition is not about buildings either, apparently, for the eponymous pair do not believe in anything so conventional. They prefer strange displays of old conceptual models of buildings, or things that could have been old models, and various odd bits and pieces that ...