Architecture is neither the shell nor the body, it lies exactly in between. That's why we build houses within houses and cities within cities...
Architecture can be built.

Architecture is a search in different media for the elements that make up a city. A determination of their relationships to one another.
An attempt to create fields of meaning by reorganizing and rearranging these elements, revealing historical traces and forming new structures of the urban organism.
The aim is to develop differentiated and dynamic habitats.

Now that the instrument of the master plan no longer meets today's requirements and the public sector has all but given up its influence over profit-maximizing investors, it is the architects - and primarily the younger ones - who are counteracting the capitalist sell-out of cities through a sceptical review.

Specific local or functional conditions are removed layer by layer, tectonically recorded and examined. Found material is restructured. Through reorganizations and rearrangements, fields of space, function and meaning are created that do not blur historical traces, but rather reveal them and transform them into new structures.

In dealing with the conditions of the location, structures are uncovered that go beyond local solutions to problems. Questions are developed that aim at overarching contexts of forms, methods and ways of life. The focus of the investigations is not on the superficial program or environment, but on strategic and long-term meanings for the environment.

Architectural development is seen as an open process that is guided, shaped and controlled by the planners over a specific, relevant period of time.

This project control is only possible with flexible, dynamic concepts: structures that in turn form a living breeding ground for ever new developments and interpretations. Architecture can be built.