Hoefner/Sachs: Piccolo Mondo - Hardcover

Harry J. Sachs; Franz Hoefner

9783899552485: Hoefner/Sachs: Piccolo Mondo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3899552482 ISBN 13: 9783899552485

Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag, 2009

The site-specific temporary architecture, innovative performances and constructive interference in the urban environment by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs lie on the intersection between art and architecture. During the past several years, Franz Hoefner and Harry Sachs have not only gained public interest with their subversive and humorous approach, but have also reinvented the vocabulary of urban intervention and ironic commentary of modern city planning. Among the projects featured in this book are miniature bee-cities positioned next to prefab buildings, implementations of spur-of-the-moment vegetation in public parks, temporary trailer parks, staircases and balconies made from mythically charged wooden pallets and tongue-in-cheek mounting of laminate, panels and woodchip as a means of upgrading the cityscape. In this book, the spectacular projects of Hoefner and Sachs are documented and illustrated in detail for the first time. It also shows how they succeed in shifting the semantics of urban architecture and public space in unique and ironic ways.

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A documentation of temporary architecture and spatial interventions by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs.

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