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...they completed for the Swiss Expo 02. The Blur Building, as it was called, was a "structure" made entirely of water vapor, produced by a framework of 31,000 computer-controlled spray nozzles configured on a multilevel platform in the middle of Lake Neuchâtel, near the town of Yverdon-les-Bains, and linked to the shore by a walkway. Visitors could approach and enter this hovering fog bank while asking themselves high-minded questions like, What really is an enclosure? Where is the line between inside and outside? And, while we're at it, where...
Would-be clients will have to compete with a cloud. Diller and Scofidio's next project is a space for Swiss Expo 2002 that will sit high above a lake in Yverdon-les-Bains, shrouded in mist created by 15,000 high-pressure water nozzles...
RolfTruffer Yverdon, Switzerland...
...their way through Switzerland in the early 1800s, many a notable-among them Talleyrand and Madame de Stael-made a point of stopping at Yverdon. There, in an old castle, lived scores of waifs and orphans under the care of a gentle old man they all called "Father." His real name: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi...
...Love. At Yverdon, he also taught other things, some of them not so obvious in the modern pedagogical scheme. In caring for his children, he soon made himself almost as poor as they, living "like a beggar in order to learn how to make beggars live like men." He could not pass a poorer man without giving something away, even if all he had to give was a buckle from his shoes. A Christian who had been influenced by the teachings of the Swiss reformer, Huldreich Zwingli, Pestalozzi had learned that lesson from the New Testament...
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