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What Architects Desire (Die Walverwandschaften)
This book collects sketches produced for the German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice, including one by Alison Brooks.
This book collects sketches produced for the German contribution to the 12th Architecture Biennial in Venice, including one by Alison Brooks.
The leitmotif, desire , is at the same time the topic of a survey among architects; answers are given through drawings. What are you longing for? The response drawings are highly individual, diversity becomes programme: both in picture language and in the presentation in terms of content, reactions are quite different.
But there is one thing they all have in common: the burning desire of something concrete. Sometimes it spreads lightning-like on the observer, sometimes time is required for a contemplative involvement with form and content. The architectural sketch, as it may seem, degenerated into a side product of architectural work within the last years, is back!
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