Martin Kaltwasser & Folke Föbberling: City As a Resource: One Man's Trash Is Another Man's Treasure
By Unknown Author.
Description
Garbage dump or gold mine? The German artistic collaborators Martin Kaltwasser and Folke Köbberling see rubbish as a major resource. Their projects colonize public space in the name of recycling and design: Overnight, they can make pavilions, villages of huts and even whole houses appear. In installations, exhibitions and, most frequently, guerrilla architectural interventions, they question the conditions of urban life as determined by privatization. For example, in a 2004 project called "Hausbau," they built a house in front of West Berlin's infamous Gropius-designed, ...
ISBN(s)
3939633070, 9783939633075
