Postmodern Berlin - Non-Residential criticism30 buildings from the 1970s and 80s, 30 built manifestos, densely gathered in two halves of a divided city: transformer station, hotel and airport terminal, diving tower, school, and animal laboratory. Not only do their functions and purposes differ fundamentally, but their forms and architectural means of expression are even more diverse. What distinguishes the architecture of these years is the search for a visualization of content beyond function:
Human nature is poetic
Tom Jackson and Abi Benitez
Bear wakes up after his long winter’s sleep and joins his friend
the ancient kynic who wandered with a lantern in search of an honest man
The focus is on the complex relational achievement required to construct a worldview where different relational (research) processes construct different realities (knowledge)
ecology to food
A few of them are joyful odes towards Fuller’s oeuvre
From Lee family favourites
An incredibly charming bedtime story in which a little girl imagines what it would be like to have a vampire bat as her pet
Writers at Work Around the World
giving these drawings the vibrance and saturation of the original pieces (and sometimes a little extra B-))
with dishes that showcase a few perfectly chosen – and personally grown – ingredients