Olaf Holzapfel: Die Technik Des Landes (the Technology of the Land)

by Jennifer Allen

Olaf Holzapfel's work proves the indissoluble connection between human settlement, technique, and abstraction. Elementary space-generating methods like plaiting, weaving, and latticing--age-old settler techniques--stem from natural linear entities. These techniques are exceptional in that they don't differentiate between technique or machine, or whether a structure is purely functional, for living, or auxiliary. Holzapfel scrutinizes the perception...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 395679091X
• ISBN13: 9783956790911
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Sternberg Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 12.3"