Zürich Schwarz auf Weiss

Baugeschichtlich­es Archiv der Stadt Zürich

3.September — 6 Decem­ber 2020
Thurs­day to Sat­ur­day 5 to 9 pm.
Sun­day noon to 6 pm.
Pho­to­bastei

Curat­ed by Ylva Mey­er, Project Man­ag­er Archi­tec­tur­al His­to­ry Archive for the City of Zurich.

Print­ed in Piezog­ra­phy pro on Japan­ese paper, by blackprint.

For the sec­ond time, the Archi­tec­tur­al His­to­ry Archive is pre­sent­ing a series of images from the first half of the 20^th cen­tu­ry in the Pho­to­bastei — with the focus on the city as a pro­duc­tion site and trad­ing venue.

Zurich was not always a ser­vice city. But who still knows that fac­to­ries made cars here, that you could smoke local­ly pro­duced cig­a­rettes and enjoy a bit­ter bit­ters from Altstetten?

The exhi­bi­tion con­veys a pic­ture of every­day work­ing life and shows the unex­pect­ed, the for­got­ten and the well-known from Zurich shops, in craft busi­ness­es and fac­to­ries. They all shaped the urban space. On the out­skirts of the city as well as on the lake and on the rivers, indus­tri­al com­pa­nies lined up: tex­tile indus­try, met­al indus­try, brick pro­duc­tion on the clayey Uetliberg. Shops and fac­to­ries lined the streets in the city cen­ter and the neighborhoods.

oth­er info about black­print and this exhibition.