Herbert Stattler - Ornament Stadt monokultur 5cm x 16cm

5cm x 16cm

Norio Imai (b

Sinclair Lewis

Its goal is to uncover the extensive potentialities of the house and the private sphere therein through a rethinking of accepted social practice and revolutionary new approaches

Bethlehem and Jenin

Herbert Stattler - Ornament Stadt monokultur 5cm x 16cmIn his book Ornament Stadt [Ornament City], the Austrian artist Herbert Stattler transferred 16 designs of ideal cities into precise pencil drawings. Urban utopias from the Renaissance to the 20th century are reproduced by Stattler again and again, until the ideal city is multiplied into an ornament: fans and concentric circles, repeating bubbles and dispersing stars. In the detail, however, in the movement of the pencil that repeats the original,