Quarks, Ziptown und Supersystem

Tom Kühne with his projects Ziptown and Supersystem, Martin Holzapfel with Porter, and Joachim Schultz with Quarks will be presenting works which deal with systems on an exemplary basis in Aedes East Pavilion.

The young Berlin architects and designers Kühne, Holzapfel and Schultz are applying the Systemic principle on furniture as well as on a city building. Systems determine our situation. In the concept of the system structure and material, metaphor and medium coincide. As tools they make contexts and intricacies comprehensible by providing contours. The Systemic can be found within the fabrics and networks of the material world, throughout social communities, in communication and traffic structures, in technical circuits as well as in the structures of language and knowledge.

A system in its realized concreteness works as an allegory, as a symbol, as well as an epistemological pattern, that is to say as a descriptive model and as a “Kulturtechnik”. Despite the heterogeneity of systems one principle can be singled out that is common to every system. The potential of the infinity of space can only be controlled through the principle of serial repetition of its combined parts, i.e. a dimension of space and time can only be explored by comprehending those algorithms which function through the precise order of parts together with their specific definition.

During the exhibition Kühne, Holzapfel and Schultz move their studio into the Aedes East Extension Pavilion. By doing so they offer room not alone to the presentation but also to the discourse of the Systemic