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0213 Architecting after Politics ×

What we can observe today in the emergence of our built environment is a loss of public power in exchange for private-economic actors. Under the paradigm of the free market, increasing growth and optimization pressures are fueling this development. As a result, space is commodified, in terms of local politics but also on the larger scales of the city and the country. Public space is thought of and understood as an enterprise, which is expressed in the limited accessibility of public spaces. The commercialization of our coexistence culminates in the planning strategies and city visions of global tech companies that see our environment as capital and pure resource for economic success. What we need in the face of these new realities, are new tools, rules, and laws to understand, describe, and guide these developments.

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Architecting after Politics is the third film in a series that has been produced since 2016 as a collaboration between Brandlhuber+ and director Christopher Roth. The latest film continues the work of the two earlier films, 0187.2 Legislating Architecture and 0199 The Property Drama, and poses a crucial question of our time: who architects? The film takes local and global examples and introduces cinematic, alternative architectural models. Terms like public versus private, homogeneity versus heterogeneity, fiction versus reality, city versus nature, appear throughout the film and are illustrated through stories of experts, cases, and projects. The narration is informed by C.G. Jung and Wolfgang Pauli’s quaternion theory in which, in the form of a graphic element (a cross), two pairs of complementary terms are juxtaposed. The concepts follow the principle of synchronicity, are contrary and, as it were, conditional. The quaternion becomes a tool to set out and make tangible the major issues at hand, such as land scarcity, ownership and accessibility, community and common good, and models of governance in times of post-politics. Read less

Category
Film
Place
Berlin
Year
2018
Collaboration
Brandlhuber+ Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth
Team
Michaela Friedberg, Annalena Morra, Anna Yeboah
Contributors
Jens Badura, Oana Bogdan, Oksana Boyko, Daniela Brahm, James Bridle, Leo van Broeck, Keller Easterling, Tom Emerson, Richard Florida, Yona Friedman, Phyllis Lambert, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Les Schliesser, Gerold Schneider, Patrik Schumacher, Kazuyo Sejima, Luigi Snozzi, Jonas Staal, Raquel Rolnik, terra0, Stephan Trüby, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Jean-Philippe Vassal, Hans-Jochen Vogel; Cosimo Flohr (music)

Trailer 1 "Architecting after Politics"

© Brandlhuber+ Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth

© Brandlhuber+ Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth

© Brandlhuber+ Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth

Trailer 2 "Architecting after Politics"

© Brandlhuber+ Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth

© Brandlhuber+ Olaf Grawert and Christopher Roth