How do certain laws determine architectural possibilities? How can architects, in turn, shape those laws? Legislating Architecure Schweiz is a fragmentary reference book that retraces the chronology of referendums held in Zurich on architectural issues. Different strategies of bringing influence to bear on the referendums emerge; recurrent conventionalized graphic techniques used on referendum posters, artistically expressed political statements and even protests in the real space of the city go to show there isn’t only a politics of architecture, but also an architecture of politics. The book accompanied the exhibition 0187.3 Legislating Architecture Schweiz at ETH Zurich. The text is interwoven with conversations between Arno Brandlhuber and Marc Angélil, Adam Caruso, Tom Emerson, Patrick Frey, Christian Kerez, and Christopher Roth.

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