form follows: Architektur hat hier eine spezifische Aufgabe zu erfüllen, nämlich Bild zu sein.

I developed this work from a librarian’s urge to archive. It represents a snapshot of ongoing research on coming to terms with the fields of architecture, sport and (their) communication. The work is also archivistic in that it processes numerous aspects which have become relevant for me over the past few years. The work is meant to serve as operating instructions intended to join together the fields of architecture and its communication to create a language. It is enriched with clever linkage and coding – ambiguity, interpretation, transformation and independent manipulation as integral components of a medium. The aim is not to provide tailor-made recipes as to what and how to communicate, but rather to encourage a discussion of appropriate contemporary (architectural) forms of communication. In this work, this ultimately leads to urban development pattern forming that caters for the real demands of architecture (concrete use: sports) with a deliberately high level of outer presence.

»The Chicago School of Architecture« consisted of a group of architects who employed a new style of building in Chicago in the nineteen-eighties and nineties. They built buildings that were intended to reflect their function. Louis Sullivan, a member of the group, popularised the slogan »form follows function«. Buildings, then, were supposed to reflect function. The intention of this work is more general: the medium itself was to reflect – whatever: the method, the subject matter or simply itself. In his video »The Child« (F, 1999, director: Antoine Bardou-Jaquet) the »French House« musician Alex Gopher shows how typography and images can operate. Here, people, cars and houses consist only of the words that denote them. The narrative becomes text and the text goes on to become form. Formally, a tight link-up of text and images to create a unified whole is characteristic.