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Piccolo Mondo
Authors: Harry Sachs, Franz Hoefner
Language: bilingual German/English
Release: August 2009
Price: € 29,90 / $ 40,00 / £ 26,99
Format: 24 x 21 cm
Features: 144 pages, full colour, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-89955-248-5
Lying on the intersection between art and architecture, the Berlin artist duo Franz Hoefner and Harry Sachs create site-specific temporary architecture, innovative performances and constructive interference in the urban environment. The book Hoefner/Sachs documents and illustrates their subversive projects in detail for the first time. Among the projects featured are miniature bee-cities positioned next to prefab buildings, and tongue-in-cheek mounting of laminate, panels and woodchip as a means of upgrading the cityscape.
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The site-specific temporary architecture, innovative performances and constructive interference in the urban environment by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs lie on the intersection between art and architecture. During the past several years, Franz Hoefner and Harry Sachs have not only gained public interest with their subversive and humorous approach, but have also reinvented the vocabulary of urban intervention and ironic commentary of modern city planning.
Among the projects featured in this book are miniature bee-cities positioned next to prefab buildings, implementations of “spur-of-the-moment vegetation” in public parks, temporary trailer parks, staircases and balconies made from mythically charged wooden pallets and tongue-in-cheek mounting of laminate, panels and woodchip as a means of upgrading the cityscape.
In this book, the spectacular projects of Hoefner and Sachs are documented and illustrated in detail for the first time. It also shows how they succeed in shifting the semantics of urban architecture and public space in unique and ironic ways.