THE URBAN-THINK TANK METHOD

摘要

Work by the interdisciplinary design studio Urban-Think Tank is the subject of the exhibition "Si/No: The Architecture of Urban-Think Tank" at the Architekturmuseum der TU Muenchen (until 21.2.2016). U-TT was founded in Caracas, Venezuela in 1998 by the strategic planners Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner. The display shows 20 examples of multi-dimensional research approaches and development studies for informal housing all over the world, analyses that often include working together with the local citizens. U-TT's extensive study of Torre David in Caracas and its exhibition "Torre David/Gran Horizonte" at the 2012 Architecture Biennale in Venice won the Golden Lion Award. This retrospective at the Pinakothek der Moderne was organised in cooperation with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zuerich, where Brillembourg and Klumpner have been teaching since 2010.