Key Visual and Poster
The institute of architectural theory at the university of Hanover
2024

Architectural theory

Architectural theory / core memory /
How does our society deal with its past and future manifested in buildings?

Buildings are more than hulls for shelter. Buildings are part of our society and they shape the way we think and act. We build them with a purpose but that purpose might change during the years. When materials and styles become old. We rethink purposes. But the old keeps living in our cities and minds.

Those are the questions that architectural theory deals with. And those are the questions that the illustrations for the institute of architectural theory at the university of hanover deal with.

Analysis / Transfer ::
Flow / Scatter / Knots / Patterns / Random

In multiple sessions we talked us to the core of their work that we as designers didn’t know before. And afterwards I came up with a path. I took the arch of a window of the university building. An old castle built hundreds of years ago for a different purpose and now reused as a university. This arch I duplicated, shaped and scattered. Forming streams, culminating in knots or leafing in fog. This is how we are. Floating and searching with the core memory or our ancestors on our bag we go forward to future.

The result was a key visual and a screen print poster. The poster was ready to be overprinted again for upcoming semesters. Also carrying the memory of the past while being adapted to new needs

A complex abstract vector drawing consisting of fine lines and shapes
The base was the arch of a window in the old castle that now hosts the university. Mulitplied, layered and connected. Like it is with the use of buildings. This was a draft, not used for printing and not used for printing and therefore not used on the website.