the drawings

It is by now decades ago; after having practised technical- as well as free-drawing at Technical School and later at the Academy of Arts it quickly became a deeper search for meaning and synthesis far beyond its technological framework. In particular at the Academy my study focused on ˜Interior Architecture &; Spatial Design™ which implied a close connection to architecture in general; however, to me the difference between the concepts of interior and exterior remains somewhat abstract and theoretical. Much later, when digital developments, together with actual and future changes in the – built – environment became inescapable it was once again clear to me that all three were – and will forever become – closely connected.
In 2021 I wrote a book as an attempt to describe and synthesize these related areas: architecture, dwelling and technology, with a close link to the arts: ˜Home in a Hybrid World, or to dwell in a networked environment™. (River Publ.) Between chapters I added short texts and images by other writers and artists, preceeded by a wonderful image by Antony Gormley on the front cover.
Since then in particular I also searched my archive to discover its context and history; while writing the book as well as regular articles and now the essays I noticed the similarities between the recent and the past: on many topics I had written long ago, on many topics I had already sketched and drawn long ago.
Here and now, new drawings will prevail but older work will be added, given its relevance to actual issues, questions and possible answers; but always with the aim to raise new questions. There will also be the continuing search for our ˜place on earth™, in the physical sense as well as in the abstract sense. Where “art™ in the strict connotation is the˜free™ approach I will try to synthesize with architecture; while recalling Walter Gropius declaration in the ˜Bauhaus Manifesto™ back in 1919: ˜Together, let us desire, conceive and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture, painting – in one unity”.