The exhibition "Courage and Care. Architecture and Design: The Roche Vision " will reveal the Swiss pharmaceutical company’s progressive approach to architecture and graphic design, and highlight the shared scientific and cultural values between Switzerland and Latvia. The aim of the exhibition is to tell the modern viewer how the bold thinking, tolerance, and care of the company's management were directed not only toward the development of pharmaceutical science, but also towards thinking about an accurate and high-quality visual identity.
For the first time, a wider audience will be able to acquaint themselves with materials stored in the Roche archive in Basel, Switzerland: images by legendary photographers of the early 20th century, Roberts Johansons (Latvia) and Robert Spreng (Switzerland), original sketches and drawings by architects, as well as a kaleidoscopic range of printed works. The central axis of the exhibition will be the story of two architects: Latvian Aleksandrs Klinklāvs and Swiss Otto Rudolf Salvisberg. Aleksandrs Klinklāvs (1899–1982) was the architect of the first building in the functionalist style specifically for the Roche company outside Switzerland. Otto Rudolf Salvisberg (1882–1940) was the architect of the first building designed specifically for the Roche company in Basel (Bldg 21 – administrative building).