2-3 Julian Turner | 4-5 Thao Le Dinh | 6-9 Dario Wokurka | 10-11 Julian Turner

12 Elisabeth Greinecker | 13-14 Michal Blaszczyk | 15-17 Andreas Harrer

18 Michal Blaszczyk | 19 Thao Le Dinh | 20-22 102 | 23-25 Elisabeth Greinecker
26-28 Kamilla Lamborghini Bischof
JUNGE VON SEINER SCHWESTER ERMORDET.
KAPITALER HUCHEN GEFANGEN.
Is it hard to make architecture books about Venice?
Dario Wokurka
I will write this text from the perspective of a passenger, since it would be the only way for me to
relate to that word called „place“ or „places“.
What was dropped in front of me were these books that seemed to have been travelling along diffe-
rent spots. The books themselves are about traveling, I suppose, or about some kind of architecture.
Though the latter doesn‘t seem very credible because the photographs have too much of a romantic
appeal to them.
I guess it‘s Venice. Or could it be, that making architecture books about Venice is too hard not to be
confused with traveling books? I guess it doesn‘t really matter. The appealing part of these photos
is in the way it zooms in and out, or in other words it asks for a zoom. Just like the zoom of an ins-
pector, trying to solve a mystery.
From these beautiful and touristic images the one that intrigues me the most is a little part in the
book where a girl or a boy is sitting on a tram. it feels like „her“ face is a bit sad or perhaps just
wondering about something. Behind her, the sea passes by and heads on to a nearby city. This
makes me wonder about how Venice could be like. Is it really a place to fall in love? I can only say
yes from this little detail and not from the familiar images of the buildings, the canals and the boats.
This is because all these other images scare me in a way. These buildings belong to a vast landscape
of historical and cultural fantasies. They can even belong to popular culture in the way that they are
so iconic and cliché.
The books in the images were dropped: on the floor, on a couch, in some bed and in a porch. They
were put there with a gesture that exists in between desire and repulsion. Between giving them a
place or giving the photographer a place to look at them. Maybe this says something about Venice
too, our how „we“ (people who are not from Venice) see that place.
I think it would be hard to make an architecture book about Venice without having this nostalgic
appeal to the place. Maybe the city is not even nostalgic but the cultural package of it is.
The author would have to be really cold and take very specific photographs. At a certain point he
would give up taking photographs and start making drawings....very technical drawings. Although
through the process of making the book, he would have an idea and make a book about having an
„architectural vacation“. People could book tickets to Venice solely to see buildings and nothing
else. They would not be allowed to jump on a boat or fall in love or put on a mask in Carnival. The
concept and objective of the project would have to be so sharp that any other option would be taken
out of the picture. This includes the girl sitting in the tram. The purpose of this detail is to make the
reader wish for some kind of freedom, the kind of freedom that wouldn‘t be allowed in this „ar-
chitectural vacation“, and could be the starting point for the author‘s next book. The continuation of
the previous theme: „Vacations in Venice without architecture“.
The cover image would be the one where the empty cup of coffee is lying on the ground. The pave-
ment reminds me of the pavements in Amsterdam, the city where I live. The motto would be: „start
looking down before you look so high“ and it could be that finally the author would make a book
about „Pavement vacations in Amsterdam“. Just like the previous idea, nothing would be allowed
except looking down at the pavements during the whole trip. A group of people would stand out
of the crowds in Amsterdam by looking at the pavements and admiring the wonderful position of
the bricks and crafts of putting them together. This would certainly require a lot of organization,
since looking down for a long time could cause people to fall and bump into cars and bicycles. So
a manual for this book is necessary. „How to guide pavement vacations in Amsterdam and avoid
bumping into things“. Of course the idea could change into „architectural vacations“ at any moment
if someone from the group would bump into a building, but this time it would be in Amsterdam, not
in Venice. The author would have to start all over again, making an edition of two places instead of
one. i guess this is why it is so hard to make architecture books about Venice. Associative thinking
leads to more places outside the place where one is, especially if you‘ve never been to Venice.

Sara Campos, June 2010

i mean you are the first person i met here
i kind of liked to be the last person i say good bye

hello
hey
right now, no
äh
yeah
yeah ok
be right there

is he here
thank you
you’ve been very helpful

hey, you there

i just wanna talk to you for a minute
come one, we miss you
i’m worried about you

hey
why aren’t you at school
cause it’s eight o’clock at night
and a saturday
uh that’s nice
well i guess i’m gonna get going
where are you going
you know you’re not supposed to drive at night anymore
great boots baby

-the oc-
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