Architecting Land is part of a series of films created since 2016 as a collaboration between Brandlhuber+, Olaf Grawert and artist and director Christopher Roth. The latest film continues the work of the earlier films, 0187.2 Legislating Architecture, 0199 The Property Drama, and 0213 Architecting after Politics. Once again, it raises one of the most important questions of our time: Who architects?

The film takes examples, local and global, and presents alternative architectural models in a cinematic framework. The narrative is based on C. G. Jung and Wolfgang Pauli’s theory of the correspondence of meaning, which in turn refers to the mathematical quaternion theory, in which two complementary pairs of terms are opposed via the graphic element of the cross. The concepts follow the principle of synchronicity: they are contrary to each other, but none­theless condition each other. The quaternion becomes an instrument through which the pressing issues of our time­such as land scarcity, ownership and accessibility, commu­nity and common good, along with models of governance in the post-political age-can be explored and made tangi­ble. Concepts such as public/private, homogeneity/hetero­geneity, fiction/reality, city/country, and so on, coalesce with stories of people who are acting in precisely these the­matic contexts, cases, and projects. The spectrum ranges from the politicization of architects to the question of democracy or freedom, and finally on to a new understand­ing of responsibility via the question of agency. Read more