City Bild Urbanism Divison of the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation, OECD. The first exhibition about a research project:...
September 14—October 5, 1990

City Bild Urbanism Divison of the Ocean Earth Construction and Development Corporation, OECD. The first exhibition about a research project: 'Cities as Bodies'

Exhibition view: City Bild, Esther Schipper, Cologne, 1990. Photo © Lothar Schnepf

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You can build structures based on the principles of the body. One cannot realize architecture with paradigms from only one sex. The body is delimited by its skin, itself stretched taut by muscles and tendons. This is in turn delimited by clothes. The act of clothing is the first architectural act. From the clothing on out we proceed with the formation of kinesthetic experience in space. Extension from the body in space, achieving architecture, proceeds...
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