GRAFT Architects
dal 21/11/2011 al 11/2/2012
Segnalato da
21/11/2011
GRAFT Architects
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
The emerging team with offices in Berlin, Los Angeles and Beijing creates architectural hybrids which take up current cultures of taste and debates on method and reflect on political as well as aesthetic issues. The exhibition entitled Distinct Ambiguity displays the entire spectrum of association on which the GRAFT-worlds are based.
To graft is a way of rethinking the seemingly irreconcilable. On this basis, Gregor
Hoheisel, Christoph Körner, Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit
have developed complex fusion methods and reinvigorated the contemporary
discourse of design and architecture under the label GRAFT architects for over 13
years.
The emerging team with offices in Berlin, Los Angeles and Beijing creates architectural
hybrids which take up current cultures of taste and debates on method and reflect on political
as well as aesthetic issues. What appears to be contradictory is reassembled in new and
surprising ways. GRAFT are particularly receptive to future realities, in fact more so than
most comparable architectural firms operating today.
In the winter of 2011/2012 GRAFT will transform the exhibition space on the Waldsee into a
scenery for the 21st century. During the exhibition visitors can immerse themselves in the
visionary worlds day and night and glean first-hand experience from their installations, pieces
of furniture, objects and models of GRAFT„s take on current issues in architecture.
GRAFT see themselves as a global think tank for design strategies as well as a laboratory
for the cultivation of future cultures. They make use of unusually open design practices,
distilling inspiration from all spheres of life.
The exhibition entitled “Distinct Ambiguity” displays the entire spectrum of association on
which the GRAFT-worlds are based. How does beauty come into being? How come they
love a good story? How do you know style is the opposite of curiosity? How do you invent
test strategies of forgetting? How does the ambiguously interesting enter the world?
The architectural idiom of GRAFT resembles a clever mongrel rather than a sophisticated,
fancy breed. Their design process is uncluttered, largely freed of fashionable repetition.
GRAFT develops “genetic bastards” in an attempt to break through the barriers of ideology
and dogmatism.
Katja Blomberg will edit an elaborate artist„s book to accompany the exhibition. It will include
texts by GRAFT in English (together with a German translation) and will be published with
Gestalten Verlag, Berlin.
Media partners: Monopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben, rbb Kulturradio, taz. die
tageszeitung, zitty
Supported by
Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, Freunde und Förderer des Hauses am Waldsee
e.V.
Press Relations
Veronika Floch phone: +49 (0)30 8018935 fax: +49 (0)30 8022028 e-mail: presse@hausamwaldsee.de
Press preview: Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 11am
Haus am Waldsee
Argentinische Allee 30 - Berlin
Tue - Sun 11am – 6pm
€ 7 / reduced € 5