Das Architektonische – eine Spurenlese. Hans Kollhoff zum 75. Geburtstag

“Can I still talk about the architectural without confrontation with society? Maybe I even have to stop being an architect in order to satisfy this society. On the other hand, however, I have a claim from which I cannot retreat if I want to call myself an architect.”
Hans Kollhoff

The question of what is architectural must be asked again and again by every generation of architects. The possible answers are manifold. Only one thing is inadmissible – not to ask this question at all. It is part of the duty and the claim of the profession.
In personal confessions and profound analyses, long-time companions and students of the architect Hans Kollhoff set out to trace the architectonic from the perspective of theory and practice and present an unusually ideology-free and realistic view of the question.