“they gave the austrian capital the most beautiful waste-collection centre in europe, laid a gigantic tablecloth – as rustic as it was inviting – over linz for its visitors, and left the astonished biennale audience standing in the rain in venice on a gloriously sunny day: for ten years günter katherl, martin haller and ulrich aspetsberger have impressed with their architecture practice caramel through spectacular buildings, competition entries and performances.
and now caramel is available in book form too. 99 projects – buildings, designs, studies, art and action, castles in the air and balloons. glossy pictures to leaf through, texts that nobody but architecture critics wants to read? far from it. architecture tells stories – exciting, longing, unusual or quite everyday ones. high time to present them that way, and to write about them so that it is a pleasure to read about them. for everyone who dwells. for everyone who lives.”
andreas russ-bovelino (ed.)