How Jürg Conzett and Gianfranco Bronzini Work
Engineers Jürg Conzett and Gianfranco Bronzini, recipients of the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2022, speak about their process of designing bridges and other structures in a short film released upon their receipt of the prize on June 13.
Conzett and Bronzini were named recipients of the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2022 — alongside painter Caroline Bachmann and artist Klodin Erb — in April, when only a trailer for the official short film was made available. The nearly six-minute film, released yesterday, captures the two engineers working in their studio but also speaking about their work at the site of one of their projects: a mountain lookout with angled balconies that face in different directions. It's a small wooden structure perched on a rock and capped by a roof; it is humble, but also a sign of how the pair finds solutions that are appropriate yet unexpected, regardless of size and typology.
Film by Prix Meret Oppenheim in collaboration with Terrain Vague
Images: Bastien Bösiger, Marie-Eve Hildbrand
Editing: Christine Brunner
Mixing: Jérôme Cuendet
Calibration: Jean-Baptiste Perrin
Translation: Sophie Laessle, Isabelle Plouïdy Ueltschi, Janna Wiprächtiger
Music: Lucie Mauch