Publisher: Walther König, Author: Adam Dickinson, Søren Pihlmann
ISBN: 9783753308111, Format: Softcover, 212 pp, 16.5 x 20.8 cm
At the core of the Danish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale will be an ongoing restoration project. With 200 colour illustrations, this book explores the implications of this approach in a dialogue between curator Søren Pihlmann and poet Adam Dickinson.
It is not possible to keep tearing down and building anew. Architecture must embrace the challenge of working with what already exists. What stories do these fragments tell about the buildings they might become? The task is to get closer to things, reading the potential of dirt, debris, and other existing materials through diverse forms of inquiry. This unusual book explores the implications of a site-derived practice and ethics. Featuring an extended, lyrical, and multifaceted dialogue between architect Søren Pihlmann and poet Adam Dickinson, it presents unconventional modes of analysis. From microbes to concrete, from metaphors to steel, the book offers a new model.