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12ISS Architecture Excursion 1 with Linda Cassein Stoian of S AM – Basel

How People Live Today (Cooperatively and Sustainably) – Local Basel Architecture Excursion 1 by foot and tram

Monday, September 28, 2026
1:30 – 4:30 PM CEST
Meet at Tinguely Fountain https://maps.app.goo.gl/2QVVXbYws9f9jMu66
Hosted by: S AM Swiss Architecture Museum
Guided by: Linda Cassein Stoian

Join us for a curated series of architectural explorations across Basel; this excursion is called, “How People Live Today (Cooperatively and Sustainably).” The excursion peels back layers of the city’s industrial and modernist heritage to reveal how contemporary architects are repurposing the past to create sustainable, cooperative spaces for the future. A Basel Architectural Journey: Shaping the Future of Urban Living.

Explore the Westfeld neighborhood in Basel and the innovative transformation of the 1960s Modernist landmark, the Felix Platter Hospital. This tour highlights how a historic clinical site has been reimagined and transformed into a vibrant, contemporary cooperative living model, proving that density and community can thrive through adaptive reuse.

  • Duration: 3 Hours with coffee break
  • Capacity: Max 25 participants

YOUR GUIDE

Linda Cassens Stoian (Basel/CH) MA, critical spatial artist, researcher, and docent investigating how the human environment is construed–and de-construed through corporeal movement and lingering/residing/sojourning or “Being In.” Project director and core research in two Swiss research projects concerning the body and space. Since 2006, concept, organization, and guiding of architecture and interior architecture tours in collaboration with the Swiss Architecture Museum S AM, Basel; author, translator of various articles, books, films.

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