HARRY SACHS, FRANZ HOEFNER
A documentation of temporary architecture and spatial interventions by Berlin artist duo Hoefner
and Sachs. The site-specific temporary architecture, innovative performances and constructive
interference in the urban environment by Berlin artist duo Hoefner and Sachs lie on the intersection between art and architecture. During the past several years, Franz Hoefner and Harry Sachs have not only gained public interest with their subversive and humorous approach, but have also reinvented
the vocabulary of urban intervention and ironic commentary of modern city planning.
Among the projects featured in this book are miniature bee-cities positioned next to prefab buildings, implementations of spur-of-the-moment vegetation in public parks, temporary trailer parks, staircases and balconies made from mythically charged wooden pallets and tongue-in-cheek mounting of laminate, panels and woodchip as a means of upgrading the cityscape. In this book, the spectacular projects of Hoefner and Sachs are documented and
illustrated in detail for the first time. It also shows how they succeed in shifting the semantics of urban architecture and public space in unique and ironic
ways.
