Anthology »Modell Hütte« Published

At the end of December 2021, the anthology »Modell Hütte. Von emergenten Strukturen, schützender Haut und gebauter Umwelt« (translated: »Model Hut. Of emergent structures, protective skin and built environment«) was published by diaphanes Verlag. In it, the editors, MoA member Karin Krauthausen and Rebecca Ladewig, bring together multidisciplinary contributions that approach the hut as a model in many different ways.

The German volume goes back to two conferences on the »Typology of the Hut« (in 2016 and 2017) of the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge Gestaltung«, but was also expanded afterwards with additional contributions. It can be purchased as an electronic version or as a bound copy via the publisher's website.

Content

The hut is commonly understood as a spontaneous and provisional structure, an improvisation in the exterior space, made of arbitrary material and with a clear goal: to quickly constitute a separated area with existing means. Understood in this way, the practice of the hut folds the space, it creates, as it were, a pocket or a compartment within it, and in this way makes possible a relative inside in difference to an outside. Such a temporary folding of space can have multiple functions, serving as, for example, shelter, hideout, camp, or refuge. In any case, the structure is rarely constructed in a planned manner. The hut is founded on a creative practice that is not perceived as such. Consequently, the hut does not form a category of its own and is exemplary precisely in this: it provides the model for the spontaneous emergence of structures that subsequently either pass away and thus remain ephemeral or establish their history in nature and culture. This model 'hut', which extends far beyond architecture, is opened up by the humanities, natural sciences, and design contributions to the volume via a variety of discourses, including Living in the Making, Precarious Spaces, Technology of the Ephemeral, Cultural Primal Scene, Extended Physiology, and Skin and Being.

Contributors

With contributions by Michel Agier, Emily Brownell, Michael Cuntz, Heike Delitz, Elmgreen & Dragset, Michael Friedman, Finn Geipel & Sabine Hansmann, Ulrike Haß, Inge Hinterwaldner, Tim Ingold, Susanne Jany & Khashayar Razghandi, Stephan Kammer, Joachim Krausse, Karin Krauthausen, Rebekka Ladewig, Stephan Pinkau, Luca Rendina, Kathrin Röggla, Anna Roethe, Samo Tomšič, Felicity Scott, J. Scott Turner.

Introduction

Here you can download Karin Krauthausen's introduction »Von der spontanen Zuflucht über die Eisenhütte zur lebenden Architektur: Modell Hütte*« as well as the section »Zu den Beiträgen & Danksagung«.