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9 Frei Otto et al. – Okö House, Berlin,
1990.(Neil Jackson)
Autrian, Lucien Kroll. Both men have been
concerned to encourage direct user-participation, leading to an architecture of
often chaotic and somewhat over-complex forms. The individual involvement in
design that these buildings encourage can be seen quite clearly in their visual
expression, which becomes symbolic of the architect stepping back from control
of production. As Kroll writers of his own work and its grand agenda, which is
tempered at the same time with a degree of resignation:
In
order to create a type of politics unrealizable at present, we are trying out in
advance the different methods which might one day bring about the political
situation we have in mind. This is simply a question of suggesting prototypes …
and of taking note of their possibilities or drawbacks. We have never imagined
that we could bring about revolution
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