Updating Germany – 100 projects for a better future
September 2008 - art direction: onlab, Nicolas Bourquin
design, layout: onlab, Linda Hintz, Matthias Hübner
edited by: raumtaktik, Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger
published by: Hatje Cantz
Texts by Sophie Lovell and Jochen Diekmann
292 pages, 17 x 24 cm, full colour, hardcover; english book: ISBN 978-3-7757-2263-6, german book: ISBN 978-3-7757-2262-9
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How do we want to live in the future? Which creative strategies and technical concepts can we employ to manage todays social and economic challenges?
The expulsion from paradise is irrevocable. And yet paradise, whether hortus conclusus or land of plenty, remains an enduring component of our conception of the ideal.
Cover image:
Jan Bruehhel the Younger, Paradise, 1640-1660
There are no simple instructions, no clear answers on how to achieve a better future. The catalogue of the German contribution to the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2008 was produced locally and features one hundred architecture, art, and design projects meant to whet one's appetite formore: architectural designs, research projects, and conceptual models that are currently being developed or realized in Germany.
To emphasize the infinite correlation between the featured stories, the pictures were set one after the other like flowing through the page sequence and format.
To emphasize the infinite correlation between the featured stories, the pictures were set one after the other like flowing through the page sequence and format.
To emphase the correlation between the featured stories, the pictures are set one after the other, through the page sequence and format, as a flow.
