9-12 September 2010
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Thursday 9 September - we fly EasyJet from London Gatwick to Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg and then transfer to hotel.
Friday 10 September - visit nearby the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany). Vitra has manufactured furniture designs by Charles & Ray Eames and George Nelson since 1957. Building on this foundation over the years, the company has developed a wide range of furnishings for the office, for the home and for public spaces in collaboration with progressive designers. Yet Vitra is more than just a design-oriented manufacturing company. The name also stands for the Vitra Design Museum, for a collection of modern furniture and its accompanying archive, for workshops and publications on topics of design, and for an architectural concept that unites buildings by Frank Gehry, Nicholas Grimshaw, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron and SANAA at the Vitra Headquarters in Birsfelden (Switzerland) and on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein (Germany).
Saturday 11 September - all day mini-bus visit to Le Corbusier’s masterpiece the chapel at Ronchamp [40 miles away]
Sunday 12 September - all day perusing great modern buildings in Basel including Renzo Piano’s superb Beyeler Foundation Museum [including a reconstruction of Mondrian’s room]. Evening Easyjet from Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg dep 21.10 arr. Gatwick 21.40
Travel Arrangements
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Depart: Thurs 9 Sept - EasyJet from London Gatwick to Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg; departs at 18:05, arriving 20:40
Return: Sun 12 Sept - EasyJet from Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg; departs 21:10, arriving at Gatwick 21:40
Cost: £380 each (based on two sharing) - including single supplement: £450
Deposit: £100
Important information - please read
These tours are the result of requests by an informal friendly group of architectural enthusiasts. Tim Bruce-Dick is the co-ordinator of this group which you are welcome to join. Tim books travel and accomodation upon request; all responsibility for all aspects of insurance rest entirely with individual participants who should ensure they have adequate insurance for the tour they choose to join. Hotels are usually centrally located modern three star hotels. The cost of airport transfers/local transport/food/drink are all extra unless specifically mentioned.
In these unpredictable times these programmes are subject to variation both in cost and content. The prices shown are accurate now and Tim will do his best to keep costs down; any notable variations will be discussed with the group before final amendments are made.
