Vitra Campus, various architects — Photography by Julien Lanoo

Vitra CampusbyNicholas Grimshaw, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Álvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, Renzo Piano, Piet Oudolf, Balkrishna Doshi, Marina Tabassum, Bas Smets

Weil am Rhein, Germany

Vitra Campus

Nicholas Grimshaw, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, Álvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron, SANAA, Renzo Piano, Piet Oudolf, Balkrishna Doshi, Marina Tabassum, Bas Smets

Client: Vitra

Location: Weil am Rhein, Germany

The Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein is one of Europe’s most singular architectural ensembles. Across the site, buildings by architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Álvaro Siza, SANAA, Herzog & de Meuron, Jean Prouvé, Renzo Piano, and others form a changing landscape of production, design, exhibition, and public life. Over more than fifteen years, I have photographed the campus through its many transformations. Each new building, installation, renovation, and change in use has added another layer to the story of the place. Seen over time, the Vitra Campus becomes a record of experimentation: a territory where industry, design culture, landscape, and architecture continue to shape one another.

Books

2023

Eames & Vitra

Vitra International AG

The book Eames & Vitra is an inspiring publication that tells the story of the collaboration between Vitra and the Eameses in the third generations — from Vitra’s beginnings as a furniture manufacturers to possessing part of Charles & Ray Eames’s estate within the Vitra Design Museum.

2017

The Vitra Schaudepot

Vitra Design Museum

by Mateo Kries

This field guide to the Vitra Schaudepot offers insight into the Herzog & de Meuron–designed building, opened in 2016, and its role as a showcase for more than 400 important works from the Vitra Design Museum’s collection of around 20,000 objects. It also highlights the museum’s archives and designer estates, including those of Charles and Ray Eames, Verner Panton, and Alexander Girard.

2018

Typecasting the Iconic, Forgotten and New Vitra Furniture

Vitra Design Museum

by Robert Stadler

With contributions by Edward Barber, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Simon Denny, Rolf Fehlbaum, Eva Franch, Konstantin Grcic, Lena Henke, Hella Jongerius, Mark Lee, Jasper Morrison, Alice Rawsthorn, Robert Stadler and many others.

2023

Piet Oudolf At Work

Phaidon

by Hans Ulrich Obrist

A major monograph on the Dutch garden designer, featuring his gardens and the largest collection of his drawings ever published.

2020

The Vitra Campus: Architecture Design Industry

Vitra Design Museum

by Mateo Kries

Since the 1980s, the Vitra company has been erecting buildings in collaboration with some of the leading architects of the present day, including Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, Nicholas Grimshaw and Herzog & de Meuron.

Exhibitions

2017

Project Vitra – Design, Architecture, Communications (1950–2017)

Groupe Exhibition

**Project Vitra – Design, Architecture, Communications (1950–2017)** Opening on 24 March 2017 at the Vitra Campus Fire Station, **Project Vitra** presented the cultural and commercial history of the Swiss furniture manufacturer. Expanded from the 2014 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the show traced Vitra’s evolution through design, architecture, and communication. Set within the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, the exhibition reflected on a site shaped by landmark works by Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Jean Prouvé, Herzog & de Meuron, and others.