2G 95: Baukunst

The newest title in the 2G series delves into the world of the Belgian/Swiss practice BAUKUNST - committed to exploring architecture as a medium with which both to think about building and build ways of thinking

Baukunst is involved with ever larger and more complex buildings, but their architectural practice has always maintained a high level of abstraction. Projects begin as theoretical propositions, and remain so, regardless of their realisation on site. Built or unbuilt, they all exist within some kind of Platonic space to which the architects keep returning. The selection of works feature in this issue is not an archive of their work, but rather a research atlas in which the montage of architectural drawings, site photographs, models and digital images speaks of the latent ideas germinated and tested across their projects.