Michael Ody, Bibs, Hosak-Robb, Ströer Bros et al: Kunstdisco
Seoul, Korea
Name
Michael Ody, Bibs, Hosak-Robb, Ströer Bros et al: Kunstdisco
Client
Goethe Institut
Program
Art in Architecture
Location
Seoul, Korea
Project
1988
Status
completed
Parcel
–
Area
–
Footprint
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Nothing constitutes community as immediately as music, dance, and singing—the magical elements…
„The sluggish Germans, however, were more lighthearted than ever before: In Ankara Park on the river island of Youido, they built a bright, barn-like structure of glass, steel, and wood, with a shed roof—architecturally, a reminiscence of the legendary Dada Merzbau by Schwitters, overlaid with the framework aesthetics of Coop Himmelb(l)au and Behnisch. And they gave this slanted, impractical thing the bizarre mission of functioning as a ‘Kunstdisco’ until the second of October…“
— Mathias Schreiber in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 22, 1988.
Well, it did!!
Baunetzwoche 332, September 2013