The history and restoration of the residence of Emma and Carl Gustav Jung-Rauschenbach
Presentation
The house built by Emma and Carl Gustav Jung on the shores of Lake Zurich in 1909 is the subject of a beautiful book, available only in German and English, and published by the Foundation C.G. Jung Küsnacht.
Featuring nearly 160 photographs and plans, the book takes readers through the various stages of the project: the original designs, the construction process, and the different adaptation and renovation works, with the most recent updates dating from the 2000s.
Back cover
C.G. Jung, the important explorer of the human psyche and founder of Analytical Psychology, lived and worked in his home in Küsnacht on Lake Zürich from 1908 to 1961, along with his wife, Emma Jung-Rauschenbach, whose wisdom was the heart of the house where they raised their five children.
A hundred years after it was built and following the completion of renovation, this house is represented in this lavishly illustrated record, published to document the creation of the property on Lake Zurich and its transformation since then. The House of C.G. Jung captures its previous and present states in text and images.
This volume is an architectural portrait of a truly unique home, as well as a commemoration of its original builders and owners.
Content
Foreword (Irene Gerber)
The House on Seestrasse (Andreas Jung)
Homes in the Lives of Carl Gustav Jung and Emma Jung-Rauschenbach (Andreas Jung)
On the Banks of Lake Zurich: The Site and Its Prehistory (Regula Michel)
The Realization of Jung’s Architectural Ideas: The Origins of the House and Garden (Regula Michel)
Between Palatial Villa and Home on Lake Zurich: The House of Carl Gustav Jung as an Architectural Landmark (Regula Michel)
Living in a Museum? The Renovation of the House and Outbuildings, 2005–2007 (Arthur Rüegg)
C.G. Jung’s Garden Realm: The Garden and Its Renovation, 2007–2008 (Judith Rohrer and Daniel Ganz)