“The study of architecture – a love-hate relationship that has begun to accompany me from 2013 through 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 to 2018, and will certainly continue for a few more years. What will be after the study – only love or only hate – a continuous love-hate relationship to architecture? We will see. But until then, it is important for me to reprocess the ups and downs of architectural studies. Writing down this experience should help me to deal with what is coming and to cope with my studies of architecture and living in architecture better. And to direct myself more to the question, where do I actually want to go in architecture. ” -Excerpt from “great amount, very small – a hate letter to the architecture love”
This critical transcript summarizes these thoughts on a 15-centimeter-wide and 5-meter-long 1-millimeter-thick sheet of copper, which was processed by the technique of folding (a lot in very little space) to a 15 x 20 x 1 centimeter rectangle. This rectangle corresponds to the size of the notebooks I used since the beginning of my studies, which became an important part of the study as a constant companion for thinking sketches and writings on the projects. The copper sheet represents the first architectural project to be mastered in architecture studies in individual work – a teater for Bietigheim-Bissingen in the winter semester 2014/2015. In the processing of the cooper sheet I used a mechanical typewriter, which transferred each letter to the sheet.
After studying Minimal Art – in particular with the work of Gregor Stemmrich “Minimal Art, a critical retrospective”, this was a basis on which I built up and proceeded. It was precisely the critical attitude of these artists towards the prevailing art in America at that time that was also an important indicator for me to adopt a critical stance. In conjunction with my production technology, the processing of the experience becomes an art object.
