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Why Do Architects Wear Black?

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Why Do Architects Wear Black?Cordula Rau (Ed.)SpringerWienNewYork2009, 228 p., HardcoverISBN: 978-3-211-79191-2

About this book


100 contemporary architects, designers and draftsmen explain
Collection of handwritten explanations in an A6-format notebook
Contains statements by Peter Eisenman, Rem Koolhaas, Francoise-Hélène Jourda, Jacques Herzog etc.

An industry manager who left his white-blue,
silver-shimmering world of car bodywork and dove into the pitch-black,
mysterious world of architecture for the first time during a
competition asked me one day: "Ms Rau, why do architects actually wear
black?" Although I was wearing black and I am an architect I didn’t
have a spontaneous answer, so I responded: "Ask the other architects!"
That was in 2001, and it is why this small book came to be. I have
asked the question at an international level and whenever it seems
appropriate ever since. The sometimes amusing and other times
programmatic or hair-splitting answers I have received over the last
seven years are listed chronologically in this little black volume.
Read, and please, don’t ask me why architects wear black! – Cordula
Rau, 22. 02. 2008


Written for:Architects, students, artists, designers








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