Rechte Räume

Issue No. 235 of the architecture magazine Arch+ had in turn -in 2019- sparked a debate on the topic of “rights spaces”.

The trigger for this debate in Berlin was a building by Hans Kollhoff on Walter Benjamin Platz. The thesis: there seem to be numerous examples – also in Germany – of architecture that transports right-wing ideology.

Here you can find more on the topic

https://www.e-flux.com/architecture

Pitch design for the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin.

We were asked to design a digital platform on the topic of “right-wing spaces” that, among other things, shows an interactive map of spaces associated with the rise of right-wing populist, anti-liberal and authoritarian political alternatives.

https://www.gorki.de/de

Starting from the rather fascist-looking yet very noble flooring at Walter-Benjamin-Platze, we were rather attracted for our design by the triviality of normal urban flooring, -specifically the banality of these plain concrete paving stones.

This kind of flooring rarely finds its way into the consciousness of a passer-by, which seemed to us a good metaphor for the insidious, hidden and invisible nature of many “right wing spaces”.