MANIFESTO
“To us, the best thing is not to be a slave to what is natural, to go beyond, to shock, to twist, not to accept”
“We link things that don’t go together”
“We argue for an architecture that is not afraid of working with illusion, allegory or ambiguity”
"It is neither a recipe nor a new design method that can do justice to all tasks, but the attempt of a recovery of lost tradition and its further development and contemporary reinterpretation."
Quotes: Nancy Hass
“These Architects, working into their 80’s, should be famous”
“Brilliantly subversive work”
“Their oeuvre- fantastically futuristic and layered with historical allusion”
“Hauntingly beautiful objects”
Quotes: Simone Kraft
“Is one of the most important Swiss Architects of the 20th Century”
“Their oeuvre is theoretically playful”
“…a decent dose of humour and irony - even self-irony - is a matter of course for them”
Quotes: Jens Hinrichsen
“Among the heroes of anti- functionalism”
“…the Haussmanns loosen rigid thought patterns”
“The function follows the form”
Quotes: Gabrielle Schaad
“Visionary designs”
“Techniques of illusion, absurd distortion…reflection as well as the play with scales and contrasts continue to appeal to our senses”
Quotes: MANIREA
“By employing illusionism as a means of material alienation and through the optical dissolution of volume through mirroring, they create complex, illusionary, apparently infinite spaces, furniture, and objects”
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