June 23, 2010
To be honest, i don’t get what that lead architect there is saying? It strikes me as a canard. Nazis and communists have one thing in common, they always have to annihilate something to make room for themselves. They’ll rebuild the palace of the republic, too, in a few years, and some day they’ll build that disney imbecility the city palace as well, and then there will be an ordinance some day that we citizens of the federal republic have to run around in historic costumes. There is no limit to the architectonic imbecility in germany. Why does the lead architect, whom no one had ever heard of before, call for the demolition of postdamer platz. I might agree with that. That stuff is already totally stupid as it is. They could build a part of the unbuilt city palace on the site of the pavilion that’s to be demolished. To try it out! But seriously, why not just expand the building? The cupola on the Reichstag was not a bad idea. So: alter the building, but don’t raze the whole thing. What a self-important proposal? Just because the foreign ministry owns the site? (Gifted by mousolini.) That’s why we can demolish it, and the others have to keep living with their little gingerbread houses? Why not just demolish venice and paste germany over it? Because we don’t want to keep thinking anymore, just want to come to a cheap conclusion of some kind, we prefer to bulldoze everything … Well if that’s what the history books will later keep saying is a german specialty, i herewith demand the immediate deposition of the german lead architect, even if no one ever knew there was a single person behind all this german urban-planning bullshit. At least it’s a small step forward. Come on, let’s visit him at home. Architecture imbecility has a name! Christoph schlingensief
