Burkhardt Leitner, a pioneer of modular construction and a visionary of interior design, has passed away at the age of 82. His systems, characterised by reduction and formal clarity, redefined exhibition design – and inspired generations […]
Archizoom, Alchimia, Memphis and on: Andrea Branzi has been involved in many formations of the critical Italian design avant-garde. Whether as a designer or theoretician, he never swam in the mainstream. Now Andrea Branzi has died […]
Meinhard von Gerkan became famous far beyond Germany at a young age with his design for Berlin’s Tegel Airport. Right at the time of the opening in 1974, the architecture critic of “Die Zeit” Manfred Sack […]
To this day, the name Peter Ghyczy is inseparably linked with his “Egg Chair” from 1968. The furniture of the pop era hides more than just the spirit of a time when total plastic living seemed […]
Between structuralism and postmodernism, he developed an architectural language from patterns and structures: an obituary for the architectural theorist and architect Christopher Alexander, who passed away at the age of 85. By Thomas Wagner. Can such […]
Always open to encounters and suggestions: The industrial designer Peter Raacke experienced and helped shape design history in Germany. Now he passed away in Berlin at the age of 93. By Thomas Wagner. It is January […]
