architect bernhard aebi reveals his creative process and collaboration with horgenglarus

bernhard aebi talks horgenglarus and his office’s youth hostel project in bern 

a unique opportunity to get inside the mind of bernhard aebi from aebi & vincent architects via their striking youth hostel project in bern – supported by swiss furniture manufacturer horgenglarus.

architect bernhard aebi sitting next to his wooden ‘select chair’ 1934 as he talks of his collaboration with furniture manufacturer horgenglarus

‘we architects are very fortunate,’ says THE DESIGNER expressing his passion towards the profession

for leading swiss architect bernhard aebi, architecture is not an act, but a process. ‘I always say to my colleagues that, if we take our profession seriously, we architects are actually very fortunate to be able to design a building, not by designing it and then building it, but by developing it, by crafting and recrafting it.’

bern-based office aebi & vincent’s landmark restoration and new-build project for its hometown’s popular jugendherberge, or youth hostel, bears this out, as architonic’s deep-dive discovery of both the project in all its constructional detail, and of the creative, decision-making process of the architect’s mind, reveals.

external view of jugendherberge, or the youth hostel project, in bern by aebi & vincent architects

close up of the architect’s wooden chair

guest feature by simon keane-cowell / architonic