Bungalow Germania: Deutscher Pavillon - Softcover

Savvas Ciriacidis; Uta Hassler; Korbinian Kainz; Quinn Latimer; Alex Lehnerer; Irene Meissner; Sandra Oehy; Philip Ursprung

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3775738304 ISBN 13: 9783775738309

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014

Synopsis

The Zurich-based architects and partners Alex Lehnerer and Savvas Ciriacidis view their work as a cultural practice that fundamentally assumes a (self-)critical stance towards the present. In Chicago, for instance, the architects proposed filling a hole left over from an unfinished skyscraper with a gigantic hot air balloon, which would then rise up into the air as a satirical commentary on a construction project that failed due to the bursting of the financial and real-estate bubble in 2010. The two commissioners of the German pavilion interpret Artistic Director Rem Koolhaas s theme of Absorbing Modernity 1914 2014 by examining the speculative reality of architecture through two protagonists, the Kanzlerbungalow [Chancellor Bungalow] and the German Pavilion. Their architectural installation in the pavilion transforms a historical retrospective into an experiment that is shaped by the intersection of material, space, and meaning.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3775738304
• ISBN 13: 9783775738309
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128